Blog Verité

A nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier and its battle group have begun exercises with South Korean warships hours after North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles in an apparent protest of the allies’ expanding drills.

Mark Meadows grand jury: Donald Trump has a new looming criminal charges headache.  Slate

White House Welcomes Netanyahu Delay in Judicial Overhaul, Urges Compromise  U.S. News & World Report

The U.S. government will restrict its use of commercial spyware tools that have been used to surveil human rights activists, journalists and dissidents around the world.

The U.S. government will restrict its use of commercial spyware tools that have been used to surveil human rights activists, journalists and dissidents around the world.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. If you believe that politics carries more than a passing similarity with theater, as the late activist

Multiple justices expressed skepticism Monday during hearings over two abortion-related lawsuits and peppered an attorney for the state with tough questions as he argued that a decisive statewide vote last year affirming abortion rights “doesn’t matter.”

NYPD Drops All Cops in Uniform Order as Trump Grand Jury Gets Potential Witness Monday  NBC New York Trump news live updates: Grand jury to return today as indictment potential looms  NBC News Trump live updates: Grand jury set to resume as

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A former student shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school Monday and killed three children and three adults after elaborately planning the massacre by drawing out a detailed map and conducting surveillance of the building,

Netanyahu delays judicial overhaul after mass protests  POLITICO Protests in Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fires defense minister  CBS Mornings Israel’s judicial overhaul delayed after mass protests: Live updates  CNN Opinion: The fall of Benjamin Netanyahu  Los Angeles Times Netanyahu has taken Israel