Politics

Houthi supporters chant slogans during an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday. (Osamah Abdulrahman / Associated Press) President Trump on Monday explicitly linked the actions of Yemen’s Houthi rebels to the group’s main benefactor, Iran, warning Tehran would “suffer the consequences” for further attacks by the group. The comments by Trump on … Read more

South Africa’s Ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool speaks at the South African Embassy in Washington on Dec. 6, 2013. (Cliff Owen / Associated Press) The State Department says South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, who was declared “persona non grata” last week, has until Friday to leave the country. After Secretary of State … Read more

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer checks his watch during an interview on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday. (Ben Curtis / Associated Press) Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing several planned events this week to promote his new book, “Antisemitism in America: A Warning,” after some liberal groups had planned to stage protests. The … Read more

President Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport on Friday in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press) President Trump will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in a possible pivot point in efforts to end the war in Ukraine and an opportunity for Trump to … Read more

Welfare benefits for more than 100,000 people in Ohio expired Wednesday, prompting about 400 people to demonstrate at the Statehouse in an effort to have the state budget cuts restored. Gov. George V. Voinovich said he would hold firm on the cuts, but he appeared to be fighting back tears as he took reporters’ questions … Read more

Gov. Pete Wilson on Tuesday nominated Kathryn M. Werdegar, an old friend and a conservative state appellate judge, to fill a vacancy on the California Supreme Court. Werdegar, 58, has only three years of judicial experience, serving as a Wilson appointee on the California Court of Appeal in San Francisco. But she worked for six … Read more

Pedestrians make their way past a building housing the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University on Jan. 30, 2019, in Providence, R.I. (Jennifer McDermott / Associated Press) A federal judge wants to know why a doctor from Lebanon with a U.S. visa was deported after he ordered that she not be removed until he … Read more

California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris is drawing fire from supporters of an anti-abortion activist whose undercover videos and identity cards were seized by the state Department of Justice this week after Harris’ political campaign sought to drum up support for Planned Parenthood. David Beltran, a spokesman for Harris’ Department of Justice, said the agency would … Read more

The White House says it plans to crack down on the hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors who overstay their U.S. visas, a vast challenge that has largely escaped notice as the Trump administration has focused chiefly on blocking migrants on the southern border. Experts say so-called overstays by students, au pairs, tourists and others … Read more

Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer on Thursday fired a top aide whose repeated anti-Christian, anti-Semitic lectures triggered a week of controversy that immobilized Chicago government and left relations between blacks and Jews strained. “I know that our city continues to suffer serious racial disharmony,” Sawyer said. “We cannot hide from that fact . . . . … Read more