ArticleAfter lengthy absence, McCon­nell returns to Sen­ate

Sen. Mitch McCon­nell returned to the Sen­ate floor Monday, vot­ing for the first time in nearly three months after an exten­ded absence fol­low­ing an injury from a fall earlier this sum­mer. “My recov­ery has been a long and often frus­trat­ing...

ArticleSecond judge blocks Trump mail vot­ing order

WASHINGTON — As the Supreme Court weighs the leg­al­ity of a Trump admin­is­tra­tion plan to change mail-in bal­lot­ing, a second lower court judge ruled overnight Sunday that the plan is likely illegal and should be blocked before the Novem­ber...

ArticleThe Real Story Behind Wash­ing­ton’s Latest Fix­a­tion

■ Noth­ing makes Wash­ing­ton more uncom­fort­able than a young, blonde staffer sud­denly at the cen­ter of power. Nat­alie Harp, Don­ald Trump’s exec­ut­ive assist­ant and closest con­fid­ante, has become the latest focus of fas­cin­a­tion, prompt­ing...

ArticleKennedy Cen­ter on brink of bank­ruptcy

Lead­ers of the John F Kennedy Cen­ter for the Per­form­ing Arts have said it is on the brink of bank­ruptcy and could close as early as today, the Wash­ing­ton Post repor­ted on Sunday. The centre’s lead­ers, who were installed by Don­ald Trump,...

ArticleTrump’s fury at ‘fake news’ who dis­pute his Twin Towers claims

DONALD TRUMP has again inser­ted him­self into the events of 9/11, claim­ing he was pulled to safety by fire­fight­ers in the wake of the deadly ter­ror attack. The US pres­id­ent was mak­ing a speech near the White House where a 21ft steel beam...

ArticleTrump’s efforts to con­trol elec­tion con­tinue ( ART ADV: With photo.); ( With: POLLING-ACCURACY, ALASKA-SENATOR-TARIFFS,

ArticleRef­er­en­dum chaos could help sep­ar­at­ists elude defeat

The mad com­plex­ity of Alberta's Oct. 19 ref­er­en­dum is becom­ing obvi­ous. With it comes a worry for the fed­er­al­ist side. What if the vot­ing is so badly botched, so con­fus­ing to so many voters, so sham­bolic, that the sep­ar­at­ists claim a...

ArticleEx-CIA dir­ector ‘tar­get’ of DOJ crim­inal probe, law­yer says

WASHINGTON Former CIA Dir­ector John Bren­nan is the “tar­get” of one Justice Depart­ment invest­ig­a­tion — into asser­tions he lied to Con­gress — and has just been sub­poenaed in a sep­ar­ate and “more wide-ran­ging con­spir­acy” probe cur­rently...