ArticleTrump’s $5K prom­ise draws skep­ti­cism

By Bill Bar­row, Lisa Mas­caro and Josh Boak WASHINGTON — Don­ald Trump’s pitch to send Amer­ic­ans $5,000 checks should Repub­lic­ans pre­vail in the Novem­ber midterms is draw­ing scorn from some mem­bers of Con­gress — the very people who have...

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 looms over midterm elec­tions for GOP

WASHINGTON — In the White House Rose Garden, Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump recently gathered some of the most polit­ic­ally endangered House Repub­lic­ans for a din­ner where he prom­ised to make him­self the face of the party’s uphill battle to keep...

ArticleOver the past month, U.S. Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump's inner circle has shrunk sig­ni­fic­antly — with more senior offi­cials reportedly eye­ing the exit — at a crit­ical period for his second term.

ArticleMiami His­panic voters cite afford­ab­il­ity, immig­ra­tion as top con­cerns in sur­vey

His­panic voters in Miami are frus­trated by the high cost of liv­ing, includ­ing food and trans­port­a­tion, and feel that the Amer­ican dream is slip­ping away, accord­ing to a new sur­vey by two South Flor­ida labor uni­ons. After knock­ing on more...

Article‘LET’S FINISH THE JOB’

DALLAS — Pres­id­ent Trump head­lined the Repub­lican Party’s first-ever midterm con­ven­tion Wed­nes­day night, boast­ing about his record and offer­ing every Amer­ican $5,000 if Repub­lic­ans hold con­trol of Con­gress in the Nov. 3...

ArticleThe polit­ical theatre of the absurd is back as pres­id­ent feeds his ego and audi­ence with insults, lies and boasts

ArticleGeo­pol­it­ics

JAIR BOLSONARO CAME WITHIN A WHISKER of win­ning a second term as Brazil’s pres­id­ent four years ago, but instead ended up with a 27-year sen­tence for plot­ting a coup. Now, his eld­est son wants to flip both out­comes. Flávio Bolson­aro, the...