How Rudy Giuliani Turned Into Trump's Clown  —  The former mayor's theatrical, combative style of politics anticipated—and perfectly aligns with—the President's.  —  Although it has been almost a generation since Rudolph Giuliani was the mayor of New York, there is one place in the city …

Myanmar Court Sentences Reuters Reporters to Seven Years in Prison  —  Kyaw Soe Oo: ‘We were sent to prison to close the eyes and ears of people in Myanmar’  —  A court sentenced two Reuters reporters who exposed human-rights abuses by Myanmar's military to seven years in prison on Monday …

A Coveted Lawyer's Juggling Act May Be Good, and Bad, for Trump  —  WASHINGTON — It was a typically hectic day for William A. Burck as he juggled the demands of managing one of Washington's premier white-collar law firms while he was in Paris for meetings on behalf of a corporate client facing corruption charges.

Brazil museum fire: ‘incalculable’ loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted  —  The Museu Nacional houses artefacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil  —  Play Video  —  Brazil's oldest and most important historical and scientific museum has been consumed by fire …

Trump blasted ‘Lyin’ Ted' Cruz again and again.  Activists want to remind Texans with a billboard.  —  Deep in the heart of Texas, a billboard truck will soon hit the road with a curated list of President Trump's tweets — attacks on Sen. Ted Cruz, a former political foe.

Fox News' Jeanine Pirro Says Trump Is Innocent and Has Been Framed  —  Fox News' Jeanine Pirro, one of Donald Trump's most impassioned supporters, said on Sunday that Trump is being framed by establishment forces in Washington, D.C.  —  The Hill reported that during an interview aired on AM 970 New York …

Scoop: How Omarosa secretly taped her victims  —  Omarosa taped nearly every conversation she had while working in the White House, including ones with “all of the Trumps,” a source who watched her make many of the tapes tells Axios.  Omarosa did this with a personal phone, almost always on record mode.

Media Obituaries Didn't Give Us ‘The Full McCain’  —  The sugary praise, often from former critics, does his memory no favors.  —  The past week has featured so much extravagant praise of John McCain that Jill Abramson, the former editor of the New York Times, had to admit …

Meghan McCain, Forged in Her Father's Image  —  WASHINGTON — As Meghan McCain delivered a eulogy for her father on Saturday, she was at times too grief-stricken to catch her breath.  As she described his sickness from brain cancer or his love for her, she struggled to look up at a crowd full …

The Shaming of Geoffrey Owens and the Inability to See Actors as Laborers, Too  —  Not long ago, I was visiting the set of a popular TV show for a story and recognized an actor who was there shooting a guest spot.  I remembered Geoffrey Owens not from “The Cosby Show,” on which he played Elvin Tibideaux …

Seahawks owner Paul Allen gives $100,000 to help Republicans keep control of U.S. House  —  The donation went to Protect the House, a committee headed by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. It's the biggest check Allen has ever sent to a federal political candidate or committee …

Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration  —  The Trump administration is using the country's vast and nearly opaque immigration bureaucracy to constrict the flow of foreign workers into the United States by throwing up new roadblocks to limit legal arrivals.

Putin Gets Love From New State TV Show as Poll Ratings Slide  —  Russian state television started a new weekly show devoted to Vladimir Putin, lauding the president's leadership qualities, physical energy and attentiveness to public needs.  —  The first hour-long episode of “Moscow.  Kremlin.

How Trump Betrays ‘Forgotten’ Americans  —  From the Supreme Court to labor organizing rules, the president undermines workers' greatest champions  —  Mr. Greenhouse is a former labor and workplace reporter for the Times.  —  Donald Trump promotes himself as a friend of “forgotten” …

A Palestinian Memoir to Counter Trump's Troubles in the Middle East  —  Yousef Bashir is an unlikely peace-builder at one of the darkest times in the elusive effort to end the conflict in the Middle East.  He was eleven when the second intifada erupted, in 2000, and the Israel Defense Forces took over the family farm in Gaza.

Paul Manafort's daughter gets a new name … Paul Manafort's daughter is ditching the family name.  —  Jessica Manafort, 36, filed paperwork in Manhattan Supreme Court late Friday to change her now-infamous surname to Bond, Jess Bond.  —  “I would like my new name to be Jessica Anne Bond …

Victory for Brussels is inevitable.  In adopting Chequers, we have gone into battle waving the white flag  —  Follow the author of this article Follow the topics within this article  —  So it's ding ding!  Seconds out!  And we begin the final round of that international slug fest, the Brexit negotiations.