Amtrak Has Lost Money for Decades.  A Former Airline CEO Thinks He Can Fix It.  —  Onetime Delta boss Richard Anderson has nearly eliminated the railroad's operating losses, but some train fanatics are fuming about the changes.  Among his challenges: congressmen whose rural states and districts are traversed by long-haul trains.

2020 Dems' opposition builds against Trump judges  —  Sen. Amy Klobuchar once supported a majority of President Donald Trump's nominees to the federal judiciary.  But this year, the Minnesota Democrat's backing of them plummeted.  —  Klobuchar isn't alone.

Moment white supremacist is engulfed in flames after pouring petrol on synagogue  —  Tristan Morgan splashed fuel through a window at Exeter Synagogue but took the full blast of the explosion in his face  —  Terrorist firebomber blasted by flames during arson attack on synagogue

US Army to drop ‘US’ from name over past links to slavery  —  WASHINGTON—Since 1775, the United States has had an Army, and for most of those 244 years it has been called the “United States Army.”  —  But now the service will drop the words and initials from its title, calling itself simply …

Trump on Ivanka's G-20 Appearances: ‘The Foreign Leaders Loved Her’  —  President Donald Trump has said his daughter Ivanka Trump's high-profile appearances at the G-20 summit in Japan were “amazing,” despite widespread criticism of her presence among top world leaders.

Trump's Recessional  —  In the days when I helped people with speeches, our relationship often began like this: … It's amazing how seldom there came an answer to the question.  The speaker would often have a very clear idea of the attitude he wanted to project, but no urgent message to communicate.

US denies German-Iranian father visa needed to attend son's funeral  —  The US consulate accused a German-Iranian father of using his late son's funeral as an excuse to migrate to the US.  Seyed Shahram Iranbomy was denied the visa he needed to attend.  He's lived in Germany for 40 years.

Buttigieg campaign multiplies in size after huge cash haul  —  Before the first Democratic presidential debates kicked off last week, close to 100 Pete Buttigieg supporters and donors sheltered from the Miami heat in a Hilton hotel conference room, where Buttigieg's senior staff briefed …

Williamson warns US elections could become more like Iran's  —  DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Friday warned that American elections could become more like voting in countries like Iran.  —  Speaking at a campaign event in Dover, New Hampshire …

Biden warns Democratic rivals he's got 'all this information about other people's pasts'  —  Joe Biden let slip that his campaign was collecting dirt on his rivals for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.  —  “I mean, I get all this information about other people's pasts, and what they've done and not done.

Trump Is Falling Almost 1 Million Jobs Short Vs. Obama  —  I cover technology companies, worldwide economies and the stock market  —  The U.S. Bureau of Labor announced that the economy added 224,000 jobs in June vs. expectations of 160,000 and May's revised result of 72,000.

What the 2020 Candidates, James Comey and Other Politicos Are Reading This Summer  —  From the frenzy of the 2020 presidential field to Robert Mueller's congressional testimony to the unremitting tweets of @realDonaldTrump, summer 2019 has shown no signs of slowing down.

Haunted by the Reagan era  —  Past defeats still scare older Democratic leaders — but not the younger generation  —  Newly elected Democrats in the House of Representatives spent June 27 with the sinking feeling that it was happening again: Their party was going to cave to President Trump …

'I Don't Run It': Trump Responds to Reports of Undocumented Workers at His Properties  —  After months of silence, President Trump responded on Friday to reports that the Trump Organization has employed dozens of undocumented immigrants by saying that he doesn't know whether the organization does or not.

Democratic congresswoman secretly sending staff into Mexico to coach asylum-seekers  —  A Democratic congresswoman is sending staff to Mexico's northern border town of Ciudad Juárez to find migrants returned from El Paso, Texas, under the “remain in Mexico” policy …

Trump blames rain and teleprompter for his July 4 speech gaffe  —  President Trump on Friday blamed inclement weather and a malfunctioning teleprompter for flubbing part of his Independence Day speech.  During the rain-soaked “Salute to America” event, Trump