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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

GOP strategists fear candidates will get steamrolled in midterms: They only know how to ‘run against Obama’  —  GOP strategists and campaign managers are looking on with dismay at the upcoming midterm elections, believing their candidates — particularly the incumbents …

The ‘Trump effect’  —  How a norm-scrambling presidency and a viral video are changing the way black and white residents in Summerville, S.C., talk about race  —  Before he heard from neighbors about the confrontation at his subdivision swimming pool, Jovan Hyman saw a shaky video of it online, where it was quickly going viral.

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.

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 …

Congress waits, waits, waits for Sally Yates documents  —  Obama appointee Sally Yates was acting attorney general under President Trump for just 10 days — from Jan. 20, 2017 until Jan. 30, 2017 — but by any measure they were consequential days.  Even now, two issues from Yates' brief tenure …

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.

Manafort's daughter files paperwork to change last name  —  Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort  —  's daughter has filed paperwork to officially change her last name, a move that would distance herself from her father, a convicted felon.  —  Jessica Manafort filed name-change paperwork …