The idea seemed to surprise even some inside the Trump administration.

Legal experts say the former Army officer convicted in a 2009 mass shooting could face a narrow, rushed path to appeal a public execution by firing squad.

President Trump sought to inject the Genoese explorer into the current political conversation.

President Trump said Russia had agreed to ship potentially millions of tons of diesel fuel in the coming months. But the amounts would be small relative to global demand.

The setup has cost more than $100 million, the study said. A recent inspection found nearly 450 government employees and zero detainees.

Correspondence suggests that Ms. Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece and former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., asked a G.O.P. donor to pay off her credit card.

Some G.O.P. members of Congress said that broadcasting the execution of the Fort Hood shooter was inappropriate, though others gleefully applauded it.

The vice president also cast doubt on whether the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the 2009 Fort Hood gunman, would go forward as Pentagon officials have planned.

Ms. Zacharia is a conservative commentator who briefly worked at the Department of Homeland Security. She succeeds Karoline Leavitt.

U.S. officials announced the new, sweeping punishments just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize committee gave its annual honor to a former court judge.

The $5 million investment from the main super PAC for Senate Democrats is a sign that party leaders see a path to winning in another red state as the political environment worsens for Republicans.

Republicans are suddenly racing to defend a seat in Kansas, where Democrats are trying to win a Senate race for the first time in nearly a century.

The hack left the nation’s premier law enforcement agency racing to respond as both the victim and the investigator of a murky group that threatened to expose agents’ personal information.

The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence.

Slashing personal attacks dominated the first televised face-off between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate, and former Representative Mike Rogers, his Republican rival.

The county is home to Arlington National Cemetery, the military gravesite that is central to the legal battle over the planned arch.

If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.

Plus, a big debate night in Senate battlegrounds.

It is unclear what changes could result from the Army report, which is unlikely to satisfy critics of the military’s response to the D.C. crash.