Sat, Jan 23 2021

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's top leaders listened in stunned silence this month: One of their peers, they were told, had devised a plan with President Donald J. Trump to oust Jeffrey A. Rosen as acting attorney general and wield the…

The Washington Post – Spencer Hsu, Devlin Barrett – Jan 19, 5:52 AM

Thomas Edward Caldwell, 65, of Clarke County, Va., was taken into custody before 7 a.m. on four federal counts, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in the attack on the Capitol. The conspiracy charge is reserved for…

Thousands of people in Russia's Far East and in Siberia rallied in support of the jailed opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny on Saturday in what was emerging as the biggest nationwide showdown in years between the Russian authorities and critics…

It was one of the most closely fought and bitterly contested US elections in history, one shaped not only by the most significant health crisis for a century but also what could become the nation's biggest economic crisis in living memory. But…