Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE  —  BEIJING — China this month awarded Ivanka Trump seven new trademarks across a broad collection of businesses, including books, housewares and cushions.  —  At around the same time, President Trump vowed to find …

Trump may be the worst presidential dealmaker in modern history  —  By Jackson Diehl Deputy Editorial Page Editor May 27 at 7:03 PM Email the author Follow @JacksonDiehl  —  When May began, President Trump was presiding over diplomatic negotiations that could have delivered twin triumphs for his administration.

Arlington Cemetery, Nearly Full, May Become More Exclusive  —  To preserve space for future war heroes in the country's premier national cemetery, the Army is considering new rules that would turn away many currently eligible veterans.  —  By Dave PhilippsPhotographs by Damon Winter

Holy Cross valedictorian denied right to speak at graduation  —  Christian Bales, a student at Holy Cross High School, was denied the honor to give his valedictorian speech at Friday's graduation.  The Diocese of Covington found that the speech contained “elements that were political …

Reporter accuses Melania Trump's spokeswoman of creating an ‘atmosphere of hate’ after Twitter feud  —  A CNN White House correspondent on Sunday accused First Lady Melania Trump  —  's spokesperson of creating an “atmosphere of hate.”  —  The back-and-forth is the latest public feud between …

Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, judge says  —  A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country's soaring knife crime epidemic.  —  Last week in his valedictory address …

Media Double Down After New York Times Gets Busted Peddling Fake News  —  There may have been a real White House briefing with real White House officials, but The New York Times couldn't be trusted to accurately summarize what the White House official said.  And it wasn't on a minor point.

Here's How the FBI Investigation Into Russia and Trump Campaign Actually Started  —  No story is hotter across America this Memorial Day weekend than what the Federal Bureau of Investigation did—and did not do—in 2016 about Russian connections to Donald J. Trump.

A pilot kidnapped a foreign student and tried to deport him back to China, police say  —  California police say they thwarted a vigilante deportation attempt last week - in which a pilot allegedly kidnapped a foreign student, took him to an airport and tried to send him “back to China.”

In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything  —  After eight years of budget cutting, Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States, with a shrinking welfare state and spreading poverty.  —  PRESCOT, England — A walk through this modest town in the northwest …

Noah Berlatsky The Trump effect: New study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianism  —  Since the founding of the United States, politicians and pundits have warned that partisanship is a danger to democracy.  George Washington, in his Farewell Address …

The North's Jim Crow  —  Last month in Philadelphia, a white Starbucks manager summoned police officers to confront a pair of African-American men after one asked to use the restroom before he had purchased a drink.  About two weeks later, at Lake Merritt Park in Oakland, Calif. …

Hero climbs up outside of Paris building to save child dangling from balcony  —  Man shown scaling four floors within a few seconds to help a boy hanging in mid-air  —  Lava from Hawaii volcano covers potentially explosive well  —  Bale ready to quit Real, but are United, or anyone, ready to sign him?

Black Defendants Get Longer Sentences From Republican-Appointed Judges, Study Finds  —  WASHINGTON — Judges appointed by Republican presidents gave longer sentences to black defendants and shorter ones to women than judges appointed by Democrats, according to a new study that analyzed data on more than half a million defendants.

Senators to Trump: It's do-or-die time on DACA  —  A small group of bipartisan senators has been holding back-channel talks in the hopes of reviving a deal.  But it's a tall order.  —  Cory Gardner, the leader of the Senate GOP's campaign arm, delivered an urgent message to President Donald Trump …

Democrats Are Running a Smart, Populist Campaign  —  Stacey Abrams and Conor Lamb are supposed to represent opposite poles of the Trump-era Democratic Party.  She is the new progressive heroine — the first black woman to win a major-party nomination for governor, who will need a surge of liberal turnout to win Georgia.

Forget about broad-based pay hikes, executives say  —  Very few Americans have enjoyed steadily rising pay beyond inflation over the last couple of decades, a shift from prior years in which the working and middle classes enjoyed broad-based wage gains as the economy expanded.

Stunning Oval Office leak: Aides fight in front of Trump — about leaks  —  Shortly after word leaked that Kelly Sadler had taken a nasty shot at John McCain, President Trump convened a meeting in the Oval Office for a tiny group of communications staffers, according to sources familiar with the gathering.

Dem money floods Calif. primaries to avert electoral disaster  —  Outside money is flooding into a trio of key California House primaries, as Democrats try to avoid being shut out of the general election.  —  The total outside spending in those June 5 primary races had eclipsed more than $8 million …

Trump is blaming Democrats for separating migrant families at the border.  Here's why this isn't a surprise.  —  President Trump's attempt to blame Democrats for separating migrant families at the border is renewing a political uproar over immigration, an issue that has challenged Trump throughout …

Rudy Giuliani admits ‘Spygate’ is Trump PR tactic against Robert Mueller  —  Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday that his repeated imputations of a supposed scandal at the heart of the Robert Mueller investigation - which Donald Trump calls “Spygate” - amounted to a tactic …