U.S. Politics

Republican leaders in and out of government are publicly pushing to prosecute Democrats as legal retribution for Donald Trump’s felony conviction.

Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.

In a memo for donors obtained by The New York Times, the group also said it viewed Pennsylvania as critical to the Trump campaign’s success in November.

Mr. Sheehy will face a formidable opponent in Senator Jon Tester, the Democratic incumbent who has survived past challenges in his red state by leaning on his farming roots and bipartisan brand.

At Hunter Biden’s trial, he listened with the jury to his own voice on the audio version of his memoir. “We’ve all been inside rooms we can’t afford to die in,’’ he heard himself say.

Working for The Associated Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his sequence of photos showing the president being struck by a bullet while three others fell wounded.

The president issued an executive order that essentially blocks asylum claims at the southern border, a major shift in how the United States has handled claims for protection.

Speaker Mike Johnson announced a “three-pronged approach” for how Republicans on Capitol Hill would push back against the prosecutions of the former president.

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, defended the Justice Department against false accusations made by former President Donald J. Trump and his congressional allies.

The president blamed Donald Trump and Republicans for the failure of a previous immigration plan. Mr. Trump called the new action too little, too late.