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...

ArticleMccon­nell returns to Sen­ate after long absence

WASHINGTON – Sen. Mitch Mccon­nell, R-ken­tucky, returned to the Sen­ate on Sept. 14 after a monthslong absence that fueled nation­wide spec­u­la­tion about his well-being. “Today, I’ll cast my first Sen­ate vote since I took a bad fall back in June....

ArticleEx-CIA dir­ector ‘tar­get’ of DOJ crim­inal probe, law­yer says

WASHINGTON Former CIA Dir­ector John Bren­nan is the “tar­get” of one Justice Depart­ment invest­ig­a­tion — into asser­tions he lied to Con­gress — and has just been sub­poenaed in a sep­ar­ate and “more wide-ran­ging con­spir­acy” probe cur­rently...

ArticleTrump’s efforts to con­trol elec­tion con­tinue ( ART ADV: With photo.); ( With: POLLING-ACCURACY, ALASKA-SENATOR-TARIFFS,

Article`Trumpap­a­looza' tests Repub­lican bet on unpop­u­lar leader

• U.S. Repub­lic­ans will gather in Dal­las, Texas, this week for a two-day con­ven­tion aimed at per­suad­ing voters that Don­ald Trump is effect­ively on the bal­lot in Novem­ber — even as the deeply unpop­u­lar pres­id­ent threatens to become a...

ArticleThe Left’s Rogan May Be Hid­ing in Plain Sight

Some­times, the thing you’re look­ing for is actu­ally right in front of your eyes. For Demo­crats, the “Joe Rogan of the Left” might be the man they least expect. Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump’s approval rat­ing has dropped to 33 per­cent, match­ing the...

ArticleCage rage: Trump ‘spat’ fuels aide gos­sip

A TENSE exchange between Don­ald and Melania Trump caught on cam­era at the Free­dom 250 Indy­Car race has increased online spec­u­la­tion about the pres­id­ent’s rela­tion­ship with aide Nat­alie Harp. The first lady had not been seen in pub­lic for...

ArticleRef­er­en­dum chaos could help sep­ar­at­ists elude defeat

The mad com­plex­ity of Alberta's Oct. 19 ref­er­en­dum is becom­ing obvi­ous. With it comes a worry for the fed­er­al­ist side. What if the vot­ing is so badly botched, so con­fus­ing to so many voters, so sham­bolic, that the sep­ar­at­ists claim a...