Embattled Supreme Court adopts code of conduct

The Supreme Court has adopted a formal ethics code for the first time in its history, bowing to public and congressional critics who demanded such a policy in the wake of reports about unreported luxury travel by justices and influence campaigns aimed at the court. All nine of the court’s current justices endorsed the code, which generally tracks existing rules for lower...

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Why the defense industry isn’t buying into the ‘Buy American’ craze

President Joe Biden and an influential bloc of lawmakers from both parties want more U.S. military hardware to be made in America. But the defense industry — the beneficiary of the movement — says now is the wrong time. Supply chain problems, towering global demands for weapons and the need to work with allies to get it all done means that the America First movement should...

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5 killed as U.S. military aircraft crashes into Mediterranean

BERLIN — Five U.S. servicepeople were killed when a military aircraft crashed over the eastern Mediterranean Sea during a training mission, U.S. European Command said Sunday. The aircraft crashed on Friday evening. EUCOM said all five crew members were killed when it went down “during a routine air refueling mission as part of military training.” The military initially first...

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Johnson leans into conservative demands on plan to avert shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson is leaning into the demands of his right flank, planning to head off a Friday government shutdown deadline with a risky two-tiered spending idea, according to two people on a House GOP call. The proposal tees up two different funding deadlines for different parts of the government: one on Jan. 19 and the other in early February, according to those two...

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Biden commemorates Veterans Day as conflicts escalate abroad

With the U.S. facing increasing involvement in two wars, President Joe Biden addressed current and former servicemembers at Veterans Day ceremonies Saturday at Arlington National Cemetery. Although Biden did not explicitly mention the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, his speech focused on American forces rising to the occasion to defeat darkness and evil. “Whenever...

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UN sounds alarm on Darfur, warns world not to repeat history

Escalating bloodshed since the outbreak of civil war in Sudan could lead to another genocide, the United Nations warned after a sharp uptick of violence in Darfur. The U.N. Refugee Agency said on Friday that it was “gravely concerned” following the mass killing of at least 800 people within 72 hours as part of the ethnic cleansing of minorities conducted by the Arab paramilitary...

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Election offices are sent envelopes with fentanyl or other substances. Authorities are investigating.

WASHINGTON — Authorities were hunting Thursday for whoever sent suspicious letters — including some containing fentanyl — to elections offices in at least five states this week, delaying the counting of ballots in some local races in the latest instance of threats faced by election workers around the country. The letters were sent to elections offices in the presidential...

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