Chad Ludington's Statement on Kavanaugh's Drinking and Senate Testimony  —  Chad Ludington, a Yale classmate of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's who said he often drank with him, issued a statement on Sunday saying the Supreme Court nominee was not truthful about his drinking in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.

Devin Nunes's Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret  —  Rep. Devin Nunes is head of the House Intelligence Committee and one of President Trump's biggest defenders.  For years, he's spun himself as a straight talker whose no-BS values are rooted in his family's California dairy farm.

Canada agrees to join trade accord with U.S. and Mexico, sending new NAFTA deal to Congress  —  BREAKING: Canada has agreed to join the trade deal that the U.S. and Mexico announced last month, according to two people familiar with the matter.  The move preserves the three-country format …

The Movie Assassin  —  The Movie Girl  —  In October 1996, I was 27, a freelance film reviewer at Philadelphia's second best (of two) alt-weeklies and excited to see and review Anthony Minghella's The English Patient.  My excitement was not about the movie itself, which I was pretty sure would be mediocre …

The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law  —  The Trump administration said Sunday it will sue California in an effort to block what some experts have described as the toughest net neutrality law ever enacted in the United States, setting …

Dominic Raab: Time for EU to ‘get serious’ in Brexit talks  —  BIRMINGHAM, England — The EU takes a “theological” approach to negotiations with the U.K., has allowed “no room” for compromise, and must “get serious” now or risk the U.K. leaving without a deal, U.K. Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said Monday.

After Budget Cuts, the IRS's Work Against Tax Cheats is Facing “Collapse”  —  Tax evasion is at the center of the criminal cases against two associates of the president, Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen.  The sheer scale of their efforts to avoid paying the government has given rise …

Predictions of a ‘Kavanaugh wave’ in November.  But for Democrats or GOP?  —  The dramatic daylong testimony focused attention on the troubles facing Trump's nominee and the possible political fallout.  —  WASHINGTON — The country is closely following the Brett Kavanaugh saga, but will it sway voters in November?

Democrats would view Rosenstein ouster as an election ‘gift’  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats believe they stand to benefit if President Donald Trump fires Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. Justice Department official who oversees the Russia probe, before November's elections.

Critic of US military bases on Okinawa wins election for governor  —  TOKYO — Denny Tamaki, who campaigned criticizing the American military presence on the southwestern Japanese islands of Okinawa, won the election for governor Sunday, defeating a ruling party-backed candidate pushing the status quo.

In Syria, Trump administration takes on new goal: Iranian retreat  —  The Trump administration has opened a new chapter in American involvement in Syria, vowing to remain until the civil war's conclusion in a bid to halt Iran's expansion across the Middle East.