Over the past few decades, whenever a Republican president puts up an important judicial nominee — especially a Catholic one — we go through the same routine. Some Democrat accuses the nominee of imposing her religious views on the law. “The dogma lives loudly within you,” Senator Dianne Feinstein notoriously told Amy Coney Barrett in […]

Xinjiang detentions, Europe second wave, North Korea: Here’s what you need to know. By Melina Delkic Good morning. We’re covering evidence that detentions in Xinjiang are increasing, the young women in Thailand leading protests and how a Philippine barbershop’s changing atmosphere shows the toll of the pandemic. Images show China is expanding prisons in Xinjiang […]

Kentucky’s attorney general, Daniel Cameron, announced Wednesday that one police officer would be charged, not in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, but with endangering her neighbors with reckless gunfire. “If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice. Mob justice is not justice,” Mr. Cameron said, in an apparent attempt to […]

To the Editor: Re “Coronavirus Update: More Than 200,000 Dead in United States” (Sept. 23) and “Senators Line Up to Aid President in Nominee Fight” (front page, Sept. 22): Some 200,000 have died, economic ruin is a reality for millions of unemployed people and there is still no national response plan. The Senate must prioritize […]

(Reuters) – United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) said on Wednesday it has agreed to go public by merging with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Gores Holdings IV Inc GHIV.O in a deal that will value the wholesale mortgage lender at $16.1 billion. It is the most highly-valued company ever acquired by a SPAC and comes amid […]

After the 2016 election, I was deeply shaken not just by the outcome, but by the terrifying sense that I did not understand the nation as well as I’d thought I did. To blunt the shock, I went on a bender through American history. I dove into books about the Civil War, the Progressive era […]

While foreign policy has barely figured in the presidential campaign, national security is plainly on the ballot. If everything feels chaotic and dangerous, it’s because we face a remarkable convergence of security challenges. Traditional definitions of national security center largely on external, military threats to U.S. sovereignty and territorial integrity posed by hostile states, like […]

More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Senators Line Up to Aid President in Nominee Fight” (front page, Sept. 22): How do you spell hypocrisy? Let me count the ways: McConnell, Graham, Grassley, Romney. Their pretzel-like contortions to agree to quickly filling Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat are appalling. We know where Mitch […]

To the Editor: Clerking for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2009 and 2010 was a thrilling experience and the honor of a lifetime. It was also challenging. We worked long hours, faced difficult decisions, and struggled to channel the justice’s commanding voice and meet her exacting standards. But it was also challenging for other reasons. […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – UniCredit CRDI.MI is looking to sell its German leasing operations and a local real estate investment unit, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, marking another move by the Italian bank to shed assets.Unicredit bank logo is seen in the old city centre of Siena, Italy June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Stefano […]