ArticleHeads or tails? $1 coin with Trump’s face and gold fin­ish goes on sale

THE $1 coin designed to cel­eb­rate Amer­ica’s 250th birth­day—and seem­ingly Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump, whose face gazes from one side of the gold fin­ish—went on sale Wed­nes­day, accord­ing to the US Mint. The coin’s design—trump’s vis­age as...

ArticleBirth­day boy Clinches funds

BILL Clin­ton’s 80th birth­day is the gift that keeps on giv­ing . . . to the Clin­ton Found­a­tion. The 42nd POTUS turned 80 on Aug. 19, and we exclus­ively hear that his actual party was an intim­ate affair for about 50 guests at the Hamp­tons home...

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.

ArticleMore mail bal­lots arriv­ing late, get­ting tossed

The rate at which mail votes have been rejec­ted for arriv­ing late has ticked up in primar­ies this year and gen­eral elec­tions last year in roughly a dozen states, prompt­ing elec­tion offi­cials to worry that the U.S. Postal Ser­vice is...

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...

ArticleCivil rights groups make plea for vot­ing rights in Wash­ing­ton rally

WASHINGTON — Thou­sands of pro­test­ers were ral­ly­ing Fri­day on the National Mall in sup­port of vot­ing rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm elec­tions, fol­low­ing a wave of changes to vot­ing laws and redis­trict­ing that civil rights...

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...

ArticleTrump’s Con­sti­tu­tional Dic­tat­or­ship

Regime Change: Inside the Imper­ial Pres­id­ency of Don­ald Trump by Mag­gie Haber­man and Jonathan Swan Regime Change: Inside the Imper­ial Pres­id­ency of Don­ald Trump by Mag­gie Haber­man and Jonathan Swan. Simon and Schuster, 464 pp.,...