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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Rusty Rodgers did not fit everyone’s image of a law enforcement officer, particularly in deeply conservative northeast Florida. One police chief, well ensconced in the local power structure, expressed irritation over what he called the officer’s “Jimmy Buffett look” — long hair, beard, loafers and no socks. No one, however, questioned Agent Rodgers’s tenacity as an investigator. Working for the Jacksonville sheriff, he doggedly pursued a rapist who preyed on poor women and prostitutes.

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The Trump International Hotel in Washington and the Mar-a-Lago private resort in Florida have been among President Trump’s favorite spots to visit in the months since he became president. And both were among the most lucrative properties in his portfolio during what otherwise was a mixed year for the Trump family businesses, according to a financial disclosure report released Friday. The 98-page report is the first official look at how Mr.

WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated his attacks on his own Justice Department on Friday, using an early-morning Twitter rant to condemn the department’s actions as “phony” and “sad!” and to challenge the integrity of the official overseeing the expanding inquiry into Russian influence of the 2016 election. Acknowledging for the first time publicly that he is under investigation, Mr. Trump appeared to accuse Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, of leading what the president called a “witch hunt.” Mr.

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Amid a broadening investigation of Russian contacts with his associates and his own role in trying to stop it, President Trump fired off another angry tweet this past week repeating his assertion that he has no business interests in Russia. But while no Trump Tower graces the Moscow skyline, the Russian authorities recently made sure that another piece of valuable property — the intellectual kind — bearing the same name remained safely in Mr.

TAUNTON, Mass. — For a case that had played out in thousands of text messages, what made Michelle Carter’s behavior a crime, a judge concluded, came in a single phone call. Just as her friend Conrad Roy III stepped out of the truck he had filled with lethal fumes, Ms. Carter told him over the phone to get back in the cab and then listened to him die without trying to help him. That command, and Ms.

TAUNTON, Mass. — For a case that had played out in thousands of text messages, what made Michelle Carter’s behavior a crime, a judge concluded, came in a single phone call. Just as her friend Conrad Roy III stepped out of the truck he had filled with lethal fumes, Ms. Carter told him over the phone to get back in the cab and then listened to him die without trying to help him. That command, and Ms.

WASHINGTON — In the hours following the Congressional Baseball Game, after a convincing win by the Democrats and the end of postgame schmoozing, three Republican congressmen returned late Thursday to a rowhouse they share and popped open a bottle of wine. For the first time in years, their annual postgame ritual was missing a fourth roommate. Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana is the Republican team’s starting second baseman and the majority whip of the House of Representatives.

Representative Steve Scalise continued to improve on Saturday, and doctors upgraded his condition from critical to serious, according to a statement released by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Doctors operated on Mr. Scalise again on Saturday but said afterward that he was more responsive than he had been on Thursday and Friday and was able to speak to his family. Mr.