18+ hour ago   (577+ words) If there’s anything I appreciate about President Donald Trump, it’s how he’s held up a perverse mirror to what government fundamentally boils down to: power, money, manipulation, awarding one’s friends and punishing one’s enemies. In this context, then, Trump’s recent…...

20+ hour, 39+ min ago   (837+ words) By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and DIDI TANG While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative forces” he did not identify,…...

21+ hour, 28+ min ago   (637+ words) But one corner of the country has a lot of time for the president, whose Irish golf resort has brought jobs, tourists and the international spotlight to the village of Doonbeg on the country’s boggy, wind-lashed Atlantic coast. Even in…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (546+ words) Lancaster County’s coroner, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, said he told the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of his conclusions. CDC officials, however, have not said whether they will count either death as measles-associated, and the agency’s website still carries a…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1076+ words) By MICHELLE L. PRICE and LISA MASCARO Republicans know they are up against history, which traditionally rebuffs the party in power during midterms, but they’re relying on Trump’s personal appeal to voters. Vance, with a primetime speaking slot right before the…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (813+ words) A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement....

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (638+ words) Energy Secretary Chris Wright had said the 64-year-old J.H. Campbell Generating Plant was needed to ensure reliable electricity in the region, and he used emergency powers to keep it operating. Environmental groups and three states — Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota — went to…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (782+ words) The recent departure of Venezuela and Chad brings the number of countries to pull out of the court in the past year to five, joining Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The surge in withdrawals comes as the ICC faces hostility…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (676+ words) By JACQUELINE GANUN and JONATHAN J. COOPER The Democratic Senate nominee from Michigan was a frequent punching bag during this week’s GOP convention, where a steady stream of Republicans singled him out. They attacked his progressive views, his ties to a…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (728+ words) “I don’t really like the way he looks,” Trump told the laughing crowd in Paxton’s home state of Texas. But never mind that because “he was our greatest attorney general and he deserves to go to the United States Senate....