Marty Davis, the wealthy Minnesota head of a kitchen countertop manufacturing company, is a steadfast supporter of former President Donald J. Trump. He contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to help elect Mr. Trump in 2020, and encouraged him to fight to overturn the 2020 election results. Shortly after Mr. Trump’s social media company said in October 2021 that it …

The messages targeted politicians, advisers and journalists, and even if some of them struggled to remember ever having met the sender, the texts had accurate personal information. Soon, they became flirtatious. Some came with an explicit image. For several days, mystery surrounded the unsolicited WhatsApp messages that gripped British politics. The news media reported that two legislators had replied by …

April 5, 2024, 1:10 p.m. ET April 5, 2024, 1:10 p.m. ET Divers have been sifting through the ruins of the Key Bridge in Baltimore, but their visibility has been limited in part because of the massive, tangled wreckage underwater. Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times More than a week after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River, …