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How Partisan Has House Intelligence Panel Become? It’s Building a Wall

“Certainly I’ve never heard of or seen it being this bad,” Mr. Rogers said. In recent days, the Republican-controlled committee has treated the public to a confusing round-the-clock spectacle over dueling staff-drafted memos that pitted Republicans’ damning characterizations of classified documents against Democrats’ benign ones. Photo Recently, the committee has treated the public to a confusing round-the-clock spectacle that pitted Republicans’ damning characterizations of classified documents against Democrats’ benign ones — all the while bypassing established committee procedures. Credit…

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White House Regrets Its Handling of Rob Porter Case: ‘We All Could Have Done Better’

Mr. Shah called the accusations against him “upsetting,” and said that Mr. Kelly had not been made “fully aware” of them until this week. But two people close to the White House said that Mr. Kelly and Joe Hagin, the deputy chief of staff for operations, as well as Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, had known of the issues since late fall. It was unclear whether they knew the extent of the women’s allegations, though one…

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The Twists and Turns on an 11-Month Slog to a Budget Deal

Sept. 14 Conservatives recoiled at the idea of Mr. Trump embracing what they call amnesty for lawbreakers in granting the Dreamers legal status. The White House said that no deal had been reached. Mr. Trump tweeted: “No deal was made last night on DACA. Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent.” He said that would include “the wall.” Oct. 1 The new fiscal year began without Congress passing any of the 12 appropriations…

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A Broadway Bigwig Lampoons Trump, Despite Family Ties

But his decision to create a web series with a first episode that jabs pointedly at the president is striking because of Mr. Roth’s history with Mr. Trump. Mr. Roth’s father, Steven, a prominent real estate magnate in New York City, has been politically and financially allied with Mr. Trump. The future president attended Jordan Roth’s wedding in 2012 to Richie Jackson. In a 2015 interview, Mr. Trump cited the event when asked if he had ever attended a…

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To Lead I.R.S., Trump Nominates Lawyer Who Battled It

As commissioner, Mr. Rettig would oversee the audit of Mr. Trump’s personal tax returns. The president has in the past said he would only release the returns once they were no longer under audit. Writing for Forbes in 2016, Mr. Rettig said he would not advise Mr. Trump, then a candidate, to release his tax returns while an audit was continuing. “Is there any legal impediment to Trump publicly releasing his tax returns? Absolutely not,” Mr. Rettig wrote. “Would…

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‘Pod Save America’ Is Coming to HBO

Photo Jon Favreau, one of the hosts of the podcast “Pod Save America,” at CBS Radio Studios in Los Angeles last summer. HBO plans to have the hosts do a series of specials on the campaign trail in the run up to the 2018 midterm elections. Credit Jeff Newton HBO is getting into podcasts. The premium cable network has signed a deal with the hosts of the popular “Pod Save America” podcast to broadcast a series of hourlong TV…

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Casting Controversy Derailed a High School Play. Then Came the Threats.

And while two productions of the new musical — its premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in California in 2014 and one in 2015 at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey — gave the part to a woman of color, Ciara Renée, the casting calls for those shows invited actresses of all ethnicities to audition for the role. Music Theatre International, the licensing company that holds the rights to “Hunchback,” says that Esmeralda is a female, aged between…

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On Tour With Notorious R.B.G., Judicial Rock Star

She was at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Jan. 21 for the premiere of a documentary on her career. The next day, she was absent from the Supreme Court bench, asking Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to announce her majority opinion in a closely divided case in which she tangled with the court’s newest member, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. Then it was on to Rhode Island for a “fireside chat” at a law school and an…

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‘Are You an Honest Man?’ Witness Is Asked in Corruption Trial. ‘I Am Today.’

He admitted to a litany of unpaid bills, legal judgments and defaulted mortgages that had dogged him for two decades. These included a 2010 felony conviction for theft related to a fraudulent $45,000 bank deposit. He had also embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years from Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, an Albany law firm where he had set up a lobbying practice, and he had evaded taxes on more than $1 million he funneled to a side…

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