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The foreign service officer failed to disclose his contact with the woman, the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party official, the State Department said. Read full article

Trained in New York City real estate, the president’s son-in-law had a single goal: Get to a yes first, and hash out the details later. “It’s just different being deal guys — just a different sport,” he said. Read full article

Three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit are reviewing an order blocking President Trump from deploying National Guard soldiers in the city. Read full article

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes. Read full article

The election machine manufacturer was bought by a little-known company whose founder is a former Republican election official. Read full article

The city said that National Guard patrols will start on Friday, adding to an ongoing surge of federal forces in the city. Read full article

The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats’ main focus in the public debate, but the president’s defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition. Read full article

A judge ordered Jones to pay as a result of a defamation lawsuit that he is now asking the Supreme Court to review Read full article

Lawyers for Robert Roberson questioned evidence about whether he shook his 2-year-old daughter to death. The state’s highest criminal court ordered a new look. Read full article

Gov. Kevin Stitt, the current chairman of the National Governors Association, broke with Texas, saying, “Oklahomans would lose their mind” if Illinois sent troops to their red state. Read full article