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 …

Steve Bannon Headlines New Yorker Festival  —  Readers of The New Yorker prize the magazine for its wide-ranging collection of perspectives.  From Oct. 5 to 7, The New Yorker Festival, now in its 19th year, will bring some of these voices to venues around New York City.

Trump's ‘majority’ is fake  —  likes to complain about “Fake News.”  —  So, here's some very real news for him:  —  Republican control of Capitol Hill and the White House is based on a “fake majority.”  —  “A majority of the Senate now represents just 18 percent of the nation's population …

Trump's pollution rules rollback to hit coal country hard  —  GRANT TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — It's coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country.  —  So it was no surprise that President Donald Trump picked the state to announce his plan to roll back Obama-era pollution controls on coal-fired power plants.

Democrats raise alarm over White House decision to withhold Kavanaugh documents  —  Democrats are expressing alarm over the Trump White House decision to claim executive privilege and withhold some 100,000 pages of documents from Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh's time with the George W. Bush administration.

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 …

8 questions for the midterm elections: A blue wave or not?  —  Campaign 2018 begins the final stretch this week.  All but a few states have finished their primaries, and the general election ballots are set almost everywhere.  The stakes are difficult to overstate.

Trump attacks union leader on Labor Day  —  President Donald Trump started his Labor Day with an attack on a top union leader, lashing out after criticism from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.  —  Trump tweeted Monday that Trumka “represented his union poorly on television this weekend.”

Inside Twitter's Long, Slow Struggle to Police Bad Actors  —  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has personally weighed in on high-profile decisions, frustrating some employees  —  When Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.29% Chief Executive Jack Dorsey testifies before Congress this week, he'll likely be asked …

Scandal-hit Danske branch handled $30bn of Russian money  —  An independent investigation into the money-laundering scandal at Danske Bank found that as much as $30bn of Russian and ex-Soviet money flowed through its Estonian branch in a single year.  —  The findings, contained …

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.

Parents at Chinese kindergarten horrified by pole-dancing act  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - Parents attending a ceremony at a kindergarten in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Monday were horrified when a scantily clad pole dancer took to the stage and proceeded with a well-oiled number in plain view of their children.

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Will Joe run?  Biden feels the push to take on Trump in 2020  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Shortly after Joe Biden boarded a recent flight from Washington to New York, a string of passengers began stopping at his seat in coach to deliver some version of the same message: Run, Joe, run.

Man who stabbed American tourists in Amsterdam names Wilders, cites ‘insults’ to Islam  —  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam's central station last week named Dutch, anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders during police questioning and said he was motivated …

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.

Immigrants, fearing Trump crackdown, drop out of nutrition programs  —  Both documented and undocumented immigrants fear that accepting federal aid could make them ineligible for a green card if rules are changed.  —  Immigrants are turning down government help to buy infant formula …

Cardinal Wuerl Celebrates Mass at Annunciation to Install New Pastor Offers Remarks About Recent Events Involving the Church  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, celebrated Mass today at the Church of the Annunciation in Washington to install Monsignor Michael Mellone as the parish's new pastor.

Scoop: Confident Dems plan detailed 2019 agenda  —  Like the quiet planning by presidential candidates for their hoped-for transition to office, House Democrats are already choreographing their opening moves if — as looks likely — they get the gavel back in the midterm elections.

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.

Trump rolls back worker safety rules  —  ‘We want to protect our workers,’ Trump said in 2017.  But his administration has weakened measures designed to keep them safe.  —  When President Donald Trump came into office pledging to cut regulations “massively,” he made a point of exempting regulations that protected workers' health.

Pope touts virtue of silence after sex abuse cover-up claims  —  VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis recommends silence and prayer to react to those seeking scandal and division.  Francis offered the advice Monday in his homily at Mass in the Vatican hotel where he lives.

Trump has visited his golf courses on 25 percent of his 590 days in office  — President Donald Trump is being criticized for golfing during the late Sen. John McCain's funeral on Saturday.  — Trump was reportedly asked not to attend the service.  He spent the day at one of his golf courses in Sterling, Virginia, instead.

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 …

Buzz Aldrin blasts First Man for not showing the planting of US flag  —  ‘Proud to be American’: SECOND man on the Moon Buzz Aldrin shames Neil Armstrong biopic for not showing planting of US flag with his own patriotic pics after movie portrayed him as ‘obnoxious loudmouth’