James B. Comey asked the Justice Department to publicly reject President Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama ordered his phones to be tapped.
The department has not issued a public rebuttal, which would be a major rebuke of a sitting president.
The big-data company Cambridge Analytica says it has the ability to predict the political leanings of every American adult, but how well it works remains unproved.
An apartment listed on the rental website until last week offered a prime location, luxurious appointments and a lot of security. It was inside Trump Tower.
There are 11 million of them, the best estimates say, laboring in American fields, atop half-built towers and in restaurant kitchens, and swelling American classrooms, detention centers and immigration courts.
The court’s assertion that there is a “frightening and high” risk of recidivism among sex offenders has been exceptionally influential, despite a lack of evidence.
Harvard hosted a conference examining a long-neglected topic that has suddenly become urgent. “Only by coming to terms with history,” the university’s president said, “can we free ourselves to create a more just world.”
