ArticleNews at a Glance

Dis­ney is declar­ing war on the Trump admin­is­tra­tion, said Joe Flint in The Wall Street Journal. Dis­ney’s ABC sued the Fed­eral Com­mu­nic­a­tions Com­mis­sion this week on First Amend­ment grounds over threats to pull its broad­cast­ing license,...

ArticlePres­id­ent’s favour­ite aide at centre of online spec­u­la­tion

With shoulder­length blond hair and wear­ing gold ear­rings and a red dress, the can­cer sur­vivor Nat­alie Harp intro­duced her­self to the 2020 Repub­lican national con­ven­tion as “a formerly for­got­ten Amer­ican from Cali­for­nia” and com­pared...

ArticleTrump chooses Heidi Over­ton to lead FDA

WASHINGTON — Heidi Over­ton, a top White House aide, has been picked to lead the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion, Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump announced Wed­nes­day. Over­ton is a med­ical doc­tor and deputy dir­ector of the White House Domestic Policy...

ArticleSo who was White House hoaxer who duped PM?

ANDY Burnham was left red-faced yes­ter­day after he was fooled by an imposter pos­ing as Don­ald Trump’s chief of staff. An inter­na­tional hunt is under way for the hoaxer who tar­geted the Prime Min­is­ter as he took office last month. Mr Burnham...

ArticleUS national debt exceeds US$40 tril­lion for first time

WASHINGTON: The US gross national debt has surged past US$40 tril­lion for the first time, gov­ern­ment data showed Wed­nes­day, out­strip­ping earlier fore­casts at a pace fuelled in part by Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump’s inval­id­ated tar­iffs. The...

ArticleDemo­crats are call­ing for an offi­cial brief­ing after learn­ing Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump secretly switched planes out of Tur­key for secur­ity reas­ons, but left some people on Air Force One.

ArticleI’m quit­ting, says Trump press chief

DONALD Trump’s press sec­ret­ary Karoline Leav­itt is quit­ting the White House to devote time to her young fam­ily, she said last night. Ms Leav­itt, 28, who gave birth to a second child in May and had returned from mater­nity leave only on July 16,...

ArticleWorld: S. Korea stresses U.S. alli­ance after Trump orders mil­it­ary exer­cises reduced