In Pennsylvania, the same two firms gave Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic Senate candidate, a smaller lead over Mehmet Oz, and eventually showed Mr. Fetterman trailing — a departure from nonpartisan polls like Marist and Fox News. (He won by nearly five points.) Worried that the G.O.P.-inflected polls were wrong and were liable to…
Month: December 2022
Their Mothers Were Teenagers. They Didn’t Want That for Themselves.
JENNINGS, Mo. — Brittnee Marsaw was born to a 15-year-old mother in St. Louis and raised by a grandmother who had given birth even younger. Half grown by the time her mother could support her, Ms. Marsaw joined her three states away but never found the bond she sought and calls the teen births of…
A Charity Tied to the Supreme Court Offers Donors Access to the Justices
“I’ll warn you: There’s money involved,” he emailed one ally. “Societies like this begin from one starting point: Donor. It’s not as expensive as you think, though.” In return, Mr. Pride, the longtime executive director of the society, did favors for Mr. Schenck and other donors, getting them coveted seats at oral arguments and arranging…
Biden Issues Six Pardons, Most for Minor Drug Offenses
ST. CROIX, V.I. — President Biden on Friday pardoned six people, most of them for minor drug or alcohol offenses, continuing a series of drug-related reprieves this year. Five of the pardons were related to the sale of drugs or alcohol. Their recipients were: Gary Parks Davis, 66, of Yuma, Ariz., who facilitated a cocaine…
She’s Building a Little Jewish Magazine on Big Ideas
Judaism was woven into the fabric of everyday household conversations. But sometimes her family’s faith was tinged with fear. Ms. Angel’s grandmother, a Greek Jew, was a Holocaust survivor who told Ms. Angel bedtime stories of concentration camps, leaving her with night terrors. Writing, too, came to feel like a source of risk. Ms. Angel…
Justice Dept. Sues AmerisourceBergen Over Role in Opioid Crisis
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against AmerisourceBergen, one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, accusing the company of knowingly distributing opioids that were later resold illegally. The suit, filed by the department’s civil division in conjunction with federal prosecutors in New Jersey, Colorado, Pennsylvania and New York, is part of a growing…
U.S. Says Chinese Fighter Jet Flew Dangerously Close to American Plane
The U.S. military said on Thursday that a Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. Air Force aircraft that was conducting routine operations over the South China Sea on Dec. 21, nearly causing the planes to collide. The Chinese pilot of a J-11 jet “performed an unsafe maneuver,” flying in front and within…
Advice From Pelosi’s Daughter: ‘Every Woman Needs a Paul Pelosi’
“I heard Paul Pelosi was here,” his daughter joked. “I just came for the pistachios,” he said. As Ms. Pelosi prepared to enter the House chamber — where she would eventually tear up Mr. Trump’s speech and dismiss it as a “manifesto of mistruths” — her husband was with her in her office offering moral…
Former F.B.I. Agents Lodge Accusations of Bias Against Conservatives
According to Justice Department records, there was only one Jan. 6-related arrest in the Jacksonville area on Aug. 24: that of Tyler Bensch, who was accused of being a member of a right-wing militia group connected to the Three Percenter movement. What Mr. Friend omitted from his account — which was published in The New…
Jan. 6 Committee Withdraws Its Subpoena of Trump
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Wednesday withdrew the subpoena it had issued to former President Donald J. Trump, conceding that the lawmakers had run out of time to obtain his documents or testimony. The committee is set to dissolve on Jan. 3. It waited until October to issue…