Interview Is a Portrait of a Man in Cognitive Decline  —  I don't care whether Michael Schmidt was tough enough.  We've got bigger problems.  —  On Thursday, El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago  —  sat down with Michael Schmidt of The New York Times  —  for what apparently was an open-ended, one-on-one interview.

State Department releases Huma Abedin emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop  —  The State Department on Friday released a batch of work-related emails from the account of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were discovered by the FBI on a laptop belonging to Abedin's estranged husband …

Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in deadly Wichita police shooting  —  Online gamers have said in multiple Twitter posts that the shooting of a man Thursday night by Wichita police was the result of a “swatting” prank involving two gamers.  —  Swatting is an internet prank …

Three Months After Maria, Roughly Half of Puerto Ricans Still Without Power  —  For the first time in the 100 days since Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico, the government finally knows how many people still don't have power: about half.  —  The figure released Friday by the island's governor …

Iran cities hit by anti-government protests  —  Anti-government demonstrations that began in one city on Thursday have now spread to several major cities in Iran.  —  Large numbers reportedly turned out in Rasht, in the north, and Kermanshah, in the west, with smaller protests in Isfahan, Hamadan and elsewhere.

Donald Trump Is a Consequential President.  Just Not in the Ways You Think.  —  What mattered and what didn't in Trump's first year.  —  On January 20, 2017, as President Donald Trump began his inaugural address, a cold rain began to fall.  —  A few hours later, Trump claimed the rain had not begun to fall.

Dem senators fight to out-liberal one another ahead of 2020  —  A half-dozen Trump foes race to embrace the liberal zeitgeist, occupying space Bernie Sanders once had to himself.  —  It used to be that Bernie Sanders was an ideological lone ranger in the Senate.

Eastern U.S. to endure most numbing New Year's Eve cold in memory  —  New Year's Eve partygoers best bundle up.  —  As 2017 turns to 2018, the most frigid New Year's weather in decades will infiltrate the eastern two-thirds of the nation.  —  The latest and most potent in a series …

After Saving Many From Fire, Soldier Died Trying to Rescue One More  —  Emmanuel Mensah was a handsome, strongly built young man in his late 20s who immigrated to the Bronx from Ghana about five years ago.  He joined the Army but returned to his apartment on Prospect Avenue in December after undergoing training.

Defense Secretary Mattis breaks tradition, doesn't visit U.S. troops in war zone this December  —  WASHINGTON - For only the second time since 9/11, America's defense secretary didn't visit U.S. troops in a war zone during December, breaking a long-standing tradition of personally …

Judge denies Rick Gates request to leave house arrest for New Year's Eve party  —  A judge on Friday denied a request from Richard Gates, who was indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller  —  's Russia probe, to leave house arrest to attend a New Year's Eve party.

Donald Trump and the Limits of the Reality TV Presidency  —  As with most politicians, Franklin D. Roosevelt loved attention and approval in equal measure.  Once, after watching himself in a newsreel, he remarked, “That was the Garbo in me.”  On meeting Orson Welles, the president said …