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Senator Jeff Sessions, in line to become attorney general, offered no hints at any legal workaround that would allow President-elect Donald J. Trump to bring back the brutal interrogation tactic.
As a senator, Mr. Sessions supported the legal analysis that authorized waterboarding and said that “it worked” in extracting information.
President-elect Trump has said he wants to replace the Affordable Care Act as soon as it is repealed, but party leaders have said it could take years to create another health plan.
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Mr. Sessions tried to show he would be willing to say “no” to the new president.
Federal officials want to lock in oversight in Baltimore and Chicago to address police bias against African-Americans, an effort they fear will be abandoned by the Trump administration.
The pro-Moscow tilt of Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s national security pick, stands in opposition to the intelligence agencies he will help oversee.
When Juliet Huddy rebuffed advances by Mr. O’Reilly, he tried to derail her career, according to a draft of a letter from her lawyers obtained by The New York Times.
President-elect Trump has endorsed privatizing prisons, but they do not save much on costs or provide effective rehabilitation programs, officials say.
The top cleric was interred in the tomb of his confidant, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as protesters cursed Russia and hailed Iran’s reformist heroes.
After beating Alabama, 35-31, on Monday night, the Tigers are national champions for the first time in 35 years. “It was just a matter of time,” Brandon Streeter said.
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He has the names of more than a million supposed drug dealers and corrupt officials in the Philippines. In this violent new drug war, who is determining who dies?
In 1939, Ms. Hollingworth was less than a week into her first job as a correspondent when she spotted troops and tanks concealed in a German valley near the Polish border. She died at 105.
Background checks? More concealed weapons? What about improving mental health care, or having better community outreach?
The largely left-leaning publishing world is courting young conservatives and tailoring its plans to reflect volatile new political realities.
Oliver Schmidt, a prime suspect in the emissions scandal, was arrested by the F.B.I. at the Miami airport and has been charged with defrauding the government and violating the Clean Air Act.
An activist wants a West Village building to be a prayer house, to be owned and operated by the Lenape Indians, who inhabited Manhattan before European settlers appropriated it.
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The annual world-music showcase brought a dozen groups to Webster Hall in New York City on Sunday night.
The human genome is divided into thousands of “neighborhoods.” Breaching the borders can have deadly consequences.
Chefs and bakers are embracing the bumpy, nutty and fragrant breads of northern Europe.
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