Live Briefing: Comey Testimony: Key Questions About the Hearing

Though James B. Comey’s written statement removed a measure of drama from the proceedings, there appears to be bipartisan consensus that he will find a way to make more news on Thursday.

On Washington: Democrats Once Had Only Contempt for James Comey. But That Was Then.

To the party’s members on the Senate Intelligence Committee, the issue of how Mr. Comey performed in his job is distinct from the issue of how he was forced out of it.

How G.O.P. Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science

By CORAL DAVENPORT and ERIC LIPTON June 3, 2017 WASHINGTON — The campaign ad appeared during the presidential contest of 2008. Rapid-fire images of belching smokestacks and melting ice sheets were followed by a soothing narrator who praised a...

The Single-Payer Party? Democrats Shift Left on Health Care

By ALEXANDER BURNS and JENNIFER MEDINA June 3, 2017 For years, Republicans savaged Democrats for supporting the Affordable Care Act, branding the law — with some rhetorical license — as a government takeover of health care. Now, cast...

Rebuked Twice by Supreme Court, North Carolina Republicans Are Unabashed

By MICHAEL WINES May 27, 2017 RALEIGH, N.C. — In Washington, efforts by this state’s Republicans to cement their political dominance have taken a drubbing this month. On May 15, the Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina elections law that a...

What Scandal? In Montana Race, a Republican Is All Aboard the Trump Train

By JULIE TURKEWITZ May 22, 2017 BILLINGS, Mont. — A multimillionaire with an East Coast education stepped off a campaign jet here recently and took jabs at reporters, pledged to “drain the swamp” and drowned his opponent in insults and...