ArticlePro­gress­ive Sen. Mar­key holds off chal­lenge from Moulton

Sen. Ed Mar­key, D-mass., eas­ily fended off a primary chal­lenge from Rep. Seth Moulton, D-mass., who made the 80-yearold pro­gress­ive sen­ator’s age a top issue. The Asso­ci­ated Press called the race for Mar­key at 8:31 p.m. Tues­day. With just 3%...

ArticleTrump knows who it is. Can you guess?

Don­ald Trump has declared him­self to be the “greatest” US pres­id­ent ever, shar­ing a post on social media last week which graded him above the likes of Abra­ham Lin­coln, Frank­lin D Roosevelt and George Wash­ing­ton. Experts take a dif­fer­ent view.

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.

ArticleMeet the pres­sure

WASHINGTON — Pres­id­ent Trump raged Sunday at “Meet the Press” anchor Kristen Welker for cast­ing asper­sions on his endorse­ment record — say­ing she should be rep­rim­anded by the FCC. Welker said Trump had “mixed res­ults” with his highly coveted...

ArticleCode red ... Melania’s not-so-subtle mes­sage to Trump’s beloved aide

MELANIA Trump has made her first pub­lic appear­ance with her hus­band in over a month as rumours con­tinue to swirl around his per­sonal aide Nat­alie Harp. ‘I heard you missed me. Here I am,’ Mrs Trump told her audi­ence as she and the Pres­id­ent...

ArticleGeo­pol­it­ics

Peaked Per­form­ance One year ago, rus­sian Pres­id­ent Vladi­mir Putin appeared to hold all the cards. After more than three years of war in Ukraine and vir­tual isol­a­tion from the White House, he had secured a his­toric meet­ing with a U.S....

ArticleHouse passes short-term fund­ing bill to pre­vent a shut­down

WASHINGTON — The House passed a short-term meas­ure Tues­day to fund the fed­eral gov­ern­ment into early Decem­ber, a move designed to avoid a chaotic shut­down as law­makers cam­paign for reelec­tion. Law­makers needed to act before the fiscal year...

ArticleLisa Cook again denies wrong­do­ing in fight against removal from Fed

WASHINGTON – Lisa Cook, a mem­ber of the Fed­eral Reserve board of gov­ernors, repeated her denial of mort­gage fraud in her battle against being fired by Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump. The Supreme Court rebuffed Trump’s ini­tial attempt to fire Cook for...