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The change will benefit immigrants who have applied for the U visa, a program that currently has a backlog of 270,000 applications.

The news executives are expected to raise concerns about the investigative steps affecting reporters, and to discuss the details of the new policy the attorney general is working on.

In early 2020, Kristian Andersen wrote to Anthony Fauci about the possibility of an engineered coronavirus. His research has since dispelled those suspicions.

Legislation across the country would restrict voting methods and accommodations that people with disabilities are disproportionately likely to rely on.

Ms. Winner’s more than five-year sentence was shortened because of good behavior, but the government will continue to restrict her public comments.

As more suspects plead guilty, prosecutors will reveal potential sentences for several groups of defendants.

John Demers, a Trump appointee who remained in the department, would typically have been briefed on investigations like those involving the secret collection of journalists’ phone records.

The minority leader said it was “highly unlikely” that Republicans would advance a Biden nominee in the months before the next presidential election, should they regain control of the Senate next year.

In her debut international trip as first lady, Dr. Biden played her part with style. Literally.

Biden and other Western leaders had tough words for Russia and China after wrapping up a meeting in England, but they had trouble finding common ground on some big issues.

What is different when women lead? Hillary Clinton, Greta Thunberg and others discuss women’s role in shaping the future.

Eric Adams takes heat for a comment on schools, while Curtis Sliwa gets Rudy Giuliani’s endorsement for the Republican nomination.

Virginia’s governor survived a blackface scandal with the help of Black Democrats, who saw a chance for policy concessions. Both got more from the relationship than they could have imagined.

When a racist picture was discovered on his yearbook page, the governor of Virginia refused to resign. Now he’s leaving office with a widely praised progressive record on racial justice.

As G.O.P. legislatures move to curtail voting rules, congressional Democrats say authoritarianism looms, but Republicans dismiss the concerns as politics as usual.

The Supreme Court will soon consider whether to hear a First Amendment challenge to a Louisiana law that required driver’s licenses to identify sex offenders.

President Biden pushed climate action after four years in which Donald Trump rejected cooperation with allies. But leaders failed to set an expiration date for burning coal.

The company notified Donald F. McGahn II last month that it had been subpoenaed for his account information three years ago.

If it is approved, a new government will remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and end two years of political gridlock.

The president urged the leaders of wealthy democracies to offer hundreds of billions in loans to developing nations in a direct challenge to Beijing’s Belt-and-Road Initiative.