ArticlePolit­ical lead­ers at odds as AI fears spread

WASHINGTON — Pres­id­ent Trump on Monday force­fully rejec­ted calls to slow the devel­op­ment of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, dis­miss­ing con­cerns about its risks as a “hoax” and warn­ing the United States remains locked in a fierce tech­no­lo­gical...

ArticleDems, act­iv­ists prep for elec­tion inter­fer­ence

Demo­cratic state parties announced Monday that they are launch­ing an oper­a­tion for the midterm elec­tions they’re call­ing the “New Bat­tle­field Project,” inten­ded to recruit 10,000 volun­teers to guard polling places in case armed fed­eral...

ArticleGOP needs pres­id­ent to deliver, not a pep rally

I have to give Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump credit for con­fid­ence. Whether that con­fid­ence will help Repub­lic­ans come Novem­ber is another mat­ter entirely. At Trump’s insist­ence, Repub­lic­ans hos­ted their first-ever midterm con­ven­tion. The...

Article‘PUTIN’ ON DON JR.’S WED RITZ

WASHINGTON — First daugh­ter-in-law Bet­tina Trump claimed Monday that a Rus­sian olig­arch close to Vladi­mir Putin was act­ing as a “close friend” when he footed the bill for the cel­eb­ra­tion of her May wed­ding to Don­ald Trump Jr. Umar Kremlev...

ArticleTrump calls $5,000 pay­outs ‘easy’ to fit into fed­eral budget

Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump said on Sunday the United States can afford his prom­ise to send $5,000 to every U.S. adult should his Repub­lican Party keep con­trol of Con­gress in this year’s elec­tions. “I don’t know but it’s easy if the Repub­lic­ans...

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...

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...

ArticleMcCon­nell returns to the Sen­ate for the first time since his June hos­pit­al­iz­a­tion