Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018
In October, four American soldiers were ambushed by militants in a remote desert in Niger. What were they doing in Africa, and who were they fighting? It was all part of a shadowy war going back to th...
20 Helmi 201828min
Monday, Feb. 19, 2018
The Justice Department charged 13 Russians with illegally trying to disrupt the American political process, in a sophisticated plot to deepen the country’s divisions and turn Americans against one ano...
19 Helmi 201819min
Friday, Feb. 16, 2018
The AR-15 rifle used in the shooting that left at least 17 people dead at a high school in Parkland, Fla., was purchased legally, according to a federal law enforcement official. How did a semiautomat...
16 Helmi 201823min
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018
President Trump has called for an overhaul of immigration that replaces a family-based system with a merit-based one. But what counts as merit? We also report on the shooting at a high school in Parkl...
15 Helmi 201821min
Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018
As a candidate, Donald J. Trump was very critical of the size of the national debt. As president, he has proposed a budget that would add $7 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade. Repub...
14 Helmi 201820min
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018
The House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, took to the floor for eight hours last week to protest a spending bill that did not include protections for the young immigrants known as Dreamers. Now, she sa...
13 Helmi 201817min
Monday, Feb. 12, 2018
At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, 169 plainly dressed athletes marched out in drab gray coats and bluejeans, competing not for a country but as “Olympic athletes from Russia.” What did R...
12 Helmi 201825min
Friday, Feb. 9, 2018
Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico with great fury, but the government there said that just 64 people had been killed by the storm. The hundreds of bodies showing up at morgues across the island tol...
9 Helmi 201829min
