ArticleTrump asks court to toss Sunday’s UFC event law­suit

The Trump admin­is­tra­tion has asked a fed­eral court to throw out a law­suit alleging that a planned UFC event on the White House’s South Lawn viol­ates reg­u­la­tions. Law­yers with the Interior Depart­ment said the two plaintiffs in the case,...

ArticleProp 50 on track to flip five seats

Gov. Gavin New­som’s bid to help Demo­crats take con­trol of the House faced its first major test this month in the state’s primary elec­tions, which determ­ined the can­did­ates who will face off in the Novem­ber midterms. With all of the races...

ArticleMaine’s Real Shame: Plat­ner’s Plat­it­udes

SET aside, for a moment, that Maine Sen­ate can­did­ate Gra­ham Plat­ner spent years with a Nazi SS Toten­kopf tat­too on his chest. Set aside that he blamed sexual assault vic­tims for their pre­dic­a­ment, or that he called rural white Amer­ic­ans...

ArticleBlanche’s nom­in­a­tion is the true test for Sen­ate Repub­lic­ans

Reports of a Repub­lican con­gres­sional revolt - like Mark Twain once fam­ously said of a false news­pa­per report of his death are greatly exag­ger­ated. It’s true some GOP sen­at­ors spoke out against Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump’s choice of the...

ArticlePres­id­ent Trump: ‘We’re work­ing very closely to make sure the right people come into our coun­try’

ArticlePres­id­en­tial Punches and Pageantry

■ An arch rises over con­struc­tion on the White House South Lawn on June 1 for the Ulti­mate Fight­ing Cham­pi­on­ship’s Free­dom 250 event. The June 14 fights—part of the United States 250th-anniversary cel­eb­ra­tions and coin­cid­ing with...

ArticleOil execs warn White House that gas prices may get worse

Oil and gas exec­ut­ives have warned the White House that gas­ol­ine prices could surge in com­ing months as fuel invent­or­ies fall to crit­ical lows, com­plic­at­ing the Trump admin­is­tra­tion’s efforts to con­tain infla­tion that has already...

ArticleColom­bian pres­id­ent faces sus­pen­sion order amid elec­tion probe

Colom­bian Pres­id­ent Gust­avo Petro is facing a pro­vi­sional sus­pen­sion order while he is invest­ig­ated for alleged improper par­ti­cip­a­tion in elect­oral cam­paign­ing — a move that would be unpre­ced­en­ted in the coun­try’s demo­cratic...