Judicial independence is under grave threat on several fronts, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote on Tuesday in an unusually urgent and somber year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary. “Violence, intimidation and defiance directed

Ann Rockefeller Roberts, a champion of the rights, welfare and culture of Native Americans and the eldest daughter of Nelson A. Rockefeller, the former vice president and governor of New York, died on Wednesday at her home in Bedford, N.Y. She was 9