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WASHINGTON — Judge Neil Gorsuch introduced himself on Capitol Hill as a “faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great nation” on Monday, but his road to a Supreme Court seat still runs through Missouri, Florida and eight other states where vulnerable Democratic senators face re-election next year. Republicans praised and Democrats doubted […]

Ivanka Trump has been given an office in the White House’s West Wing that was adjacent to one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted senior advisers, according to a new report. The first daughter was also going to be granted official national security clearance and a government issued cellphone, her lawyer confirmed to Politco on

SAN FRANCISCO — In another sign of the turmoil sweeping Uber, the company’s president of ride-sharing has quit after less than a year on the job, following a string of scandals at the startup and CEO Travis Kalanick’s promise to hire a new second-in-command. Kalanick on Sunday confirmed the departure of Jeff Jones in an

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Monday rejected Sen. Bob Menendez’s request to review his federal corruption case, dealing a blow to the New Jersey Democrat’s hopes of having key evidence and charges dismissed. The decision was announced Monday morning. It clears the way for Menendez’s trial to move forward this fall. It is scheduled to

Jimmy Breslin, the street-savvy, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist whose two-fisted prose championing the little guy and pillorying those who betrayed the public trust made him a New York City institution for more than 40 years, died Sunday. He was 88. Breslin, who also turned out a string of fiction and nonfiction books, died of complications