Trump Says Jews Should Love Him Because He's Almost Literally Jesus  —  President Trump has been vexed recently by the refusal of the majority of the American Jewish community to support him.  For insight into the mysterious paradox of why a traditionally liberal social minority remains unenthusiastic …

Danes furious over postponement of Trump's visit, call his behavior ‘insulting’  —  BERLIN — Danish lawmakers on Wednesday reacted in fury to President's Trump's postponement of his two-day visit in early September to Denmark after its prime minister said she was not interested in selling him the autonomous island of Greenland.

Deficit Will Reach $1 Trillion Next Year, Budget Office Predicts  —  The federal budget deficit is growing faster than expected as President Trump considers plans that would add to government debt, like tax cuts.  —  Breaking87 comments  —  Trump's Message: The Economy Is Great.  But We Need a Big Stimulus.

Migrant Families Would Face Indefinite Detention Under New Trump Rule  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration unveiled a regulation on Wednesday that would allow it to detain indefinitely migrant families who cross the border illegally, replacing a decades-old court agreement that imposed …

Trump team braces GOP donors for a potential ‘moderate and short’ recession  —  In public, President Donald Trump and top White House officials keep extolling the strength of the U.S. economy.  In private, they're increasingly worrying about a global economic slowdown triggering a U.S. recession …

The Summer of Warren  —  Julia Ioffe joins Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail, where the surging senator has spent the season overcoming her campaign's wobbly start and getting down to business—trouncing debate foes, climbing in the polls, and somehow making a slew of policy plans feel exciting.

‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2019: Hannah B, Karamo and more to compete on new season  —  The celebrities who will battle it out this year on the dancefloor were revealed on “GMA.”

China's Warning to Global CEOs: Toe the Party Line on Hong Kong  — Beijing scrutinizes how companies, workers respond to protests  — Clampdown on airline Cathay Pacific sent a chilling message  —  As anti-government protests in Hong Kong intensified this month …

'Where's Steve?':  Trump Frets as CNN Benches His Biggest Defender  —  Amid national uproar over mass shootings, possible economic gloom, and gun control, the president has found time to be distressed over a pro-Trump pundit's lack of CNN airtime.  —  Over the past month …

Tucker Carlson's Fox News Show Loses More Advertisers  —  In keeping with a monthslong trend, the exodus of advertisers from Tucker Carlson's prime-time Fox News program continued this month.  —  Over the last year, dozens of advertisers, including Pacific Life, Farmers Insurance and SodaStream …

Trump critics eye GOP primary race, even if defeating him seems ‘preposterous’  —  Joe Walsh, a pugnacious former congressman, is preparing a Republican primary challenge to President Trump that he previewed as a daily “bar fight” with the incumbent over his morality and competency.

Hate crime reports have soared in D.C. Prosecutions have plummeted. … The hatred that day couldn't have been clearer to Ashly Taylor.  —  She had endured it ever since coming out as a teenager, when strangers said lewd things to her for holding another girl's hand and one of her own relatives called her a “dyke.”

Susan Collins Faces Bipartisan Anger in Trump-Era Re-Election Bid  — Maine Republican is one of the most at-risk senators in 2020  — Democrats see Maine Senate seat ripe to flip in next election  —  Republican Susan Collins is caught in the cross-fire of the angry partisan division that's defining …

Man Arrested With 17 Guns, Grenade Launcher and Nazi Paraphernalia  —  The arrest in New Jersey comes amid a spate of mass shootings as officials grapple with a rising white supremacist threat.  —  Had Joseph Rubino not wrecked his car, he might still be living with a house full of guns in New Jersey.

Who is ahead in the Democratic primary race?  —  Twenty-seven candidates have thrown their hat into the ring for the Democrats' presidential nominating contest in 2020.  This field, the largest ever, includes United States senators and House representatives, mayors, entrepreneurs and even a self-help guru.

Nearly a year after John McCain's death, Cindy McCain says no one in the GOP carries ‘voice of reason’  —  Nearly a year after her husband's death, Cindy McCain said the current Republican Party is “not the party of Abraham Lincoln ... nor the party of Ronald Reagan.”