Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Return to Center Stage. Their Own.
After a six-year hiatus, the Clinton Global Initiative returned to New York City this week, bringing together leaders from the worlds of nonprofit, government and business, with a few celebrities sprinkled in for good measure. It has been an eventful few years since they last gathered in 2016. “The challenges we face are steep, but […]
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Sussmann Acquittal Raises Question: What Is Durham Actually Trying to Do?
WASHINGTON — Even before 12 jurors voted to acquit Michael Sussmann of lying to the F.B.I. in a rebuke of the Trump-era special counsel, John H. Durham, supporters of Donald J. Trump were already laying the groundwork to declare that the prosecutor won despite losing in court. What really mattered, they essentially claimed, was that […]
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Defense Team for Democratic-Linked Lawyer Won’t Call Ex-Times Reporter to Testify
WASHINGTON — The defense team for Michael Sussmann, a lawyer with ties to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, has dropped its plans to call a former New York Times reporter to testify in a trial that centers on Mr. Sussmann’s motives in meeting with the F.B.I. in 2016. Testimony in the case has underlined the role […]
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Key Witness in Durham Case Offers Detailed Testimony of 2016 Meeting
WASHINGTON — A former F.B.I. official testified on Thursday that when he met in 2016 with Michael Sussmann, a lawyer with ties to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Mr. Sussmann told him that he had come to the F.B.I. on his own. The testimony bolsters the case brought by the special counsel, John H. Durham, against […]
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Trump-Era Prosecutor’s Case Against Democratic-Linked Lawyer Goes to Trial
WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration assigned a prosecutor in 2019 to scour the Russia investigation for any wrongdoing, President Donald J. Trump stoked expectations among his supporters that the inquiry would find a “deep state” conspiracy against him. Three years later, the team led by the special counsel, John H. Durham, on Monday will […]
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Sarah Morgenthau’s Tricky House Race in Rhode Island
When Sarah Morgenthau entered the race for the open congressional seat in Rhode Island, she had to answer an age-old question in American politics: Are you really from here? She isn’t the only one. Mehmet Oz, a leading Republican candidate for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat, grew up in Wilmington, Del., and has lived for many […]
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Durham Distances Himself From Furor in Right-Wing Media Over Filing
WASHINGTON — John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel scrutinizing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, distanced himself on Thursday from false reports by right-wing news outlets that a motion he recently filed said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers. Citing a barrage of such reports on Fox […]
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How Hillary Clinton’s MasterClass Shows a Very 2021 Way to Be
For a time, the most indelible cultural artifact of this moment was a parenthetical bit of metadata, “(Taylor’s Version),” which Swift appended to the titles of her newly recorded songs, and which became a meme anyone could use to signal a prideful ownership of their own cultural outputs, no matter how slight. But in November, […]
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How the U.S. Lost Ground to China in the Contest for Clean Energy
WASHINGTON — Tom Perriello saw it coming but could do nothing to stop it. André Kapanga too. Despite urgent emails, phone calls and personal pleas, they watched helplessly as a company backed by the Chinese government took ownership from the Americans of one of the world’s largest cobalt mines. It was 2016, and a deal […]
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