Letters

Top Democrats, Alleging Cover-Up, Seek Testimony on Secret Service Texts

WASHINGTON — Two influential House Democrats called on Monday for two officials at the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog to testify to Congress about the agency’s handling of missing Secret Service text messages from the day of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, accusing their office of engaging in a cover-up. In a […]

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An Heir, a $25 Million Giveaway and 30,000 Unopened Letters

“They said, ‘We’re just looking for someone to believe in us enough,’” Maitland said. None of the films appear to have ever been made, he said, and the aspiring filmmakers, now all dead, left little other trace. And then there were the sheer larks. Through a colleague, Maitland heard that the young Paul Stanley, the […]

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Ginni Thomas’s Texts, and the Limits of Chief Justice Roberts’s Power

WASHINGTON — In the wake of revelations about incendiary text messages from Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, to the Trump White House, mostly in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 attack, Democrats in Congress urged Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to take action. But the chief justice is powerless […]

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Recreating a Family’s Lost Holocaust History, Step by Step

That afternoon, we drove to what remains of Barcares, now an abandoned, overgrown field full of unclaimed internment camp artifacts. I walked along the straight rows of what looked like the cement foundations of barracks and picked up a bullet casing and one of many rusted twists of barbed wire. Across the road was a […]

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