David Kirkpatrick

A group of intelligence officials confers about when to alert the public to foreign meddling.

The threat from domestic terrorism is rising, but, with Republicans decrying the “deep state,” the F.B.I. is cautious about investigating far-right groups. Vigilantes are leaping into the fray.

The congresswoman is demanding Speaker Mike Johnson’s ouster. Is it principle—or a fund-raising ploy?

Johnson was personally and ideologically close to the rebels. His district, in northwest Louisiana, votes lopsidedly Republican, and his voting record was as far to the right as that of anyone in the G.O.P. Where Garcia talked about his immigrant story and combat experience, Johnson was a conservative Christian litigator who sometimes warned that hordes of “military-age” migrants were “coming to a neighborhood near you.” Yet, unlike other Republican hard-liners, he cultivated a mild and bookish…

The U.A.E.’s rulers destroyed Hazim Nada’s business. Now he’s fighting back with a lawsuit that challenges what states can get away with outside their borders.

But the lawyers, from a group called Alliance Defending Freedom, were on a winning streak. Founded three decades ago as a legal-defense fund for conservative Christian causes, A.D.F. had become that movement’s most influential arm. In the past dozen years, its lawyers had won fourteen Supreme Court victories, including overturning Roe v. Wade; allowing employer-sponsored health insurance to exclude birth control; rolling back limits on government support for religious organizations; protecting t…

The country has developed a lucrative specialty: cyberattacks for hire.

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