Day: July 5, 2020

Andrej Plenkovic, Croatia’s prime minister, waves at his party’s headquarters in Zagreb on July 5, 2020. | AP Photo By UNA HAJDARI 07/05/2020 07:42 PM EDT The ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) is set to increase its seats in parliament after coming out on top in Sunday’s election, riding high […]

Ever since President Donald Trump took office, the pop singer Cher has become infamous for her frequent unhinged and nonsensical attacks on him. This week, however, Cher took her craziness to a whole new level when she pushed the bizarre conspiracy theory that Trump does not want to help white […]

Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who is said to be on the shortlist of people in the running to be Joe Biden’s running mate, just gave a disturbing interview in which she is open to removing statues of founding fathers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. She said this while appearing on […]

President Trump’s favored Senate candidate in Alabama, Tommy Tuberville, is known for his career as a college football coach. But he also had a brief stint as co-owner of a hedge fund. It did not go well. A little more than a decade ago, after departing from Auburn University where […]

President Trump dismissed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States over the weekend, downplaying the impact of the disease and saying that while the testing of tens of millions of American had identified many cases, “99 percent” of them were “totally harmless.” His remarks about a virus […]

President Barack Obama had a China problem. His national security team knew the Chinese Communist Party was getting ready to anoint a new leader. But his aides wanted to better understand the man they expected to assume power, Xi Jinping. It seemed like a job for Vice President Joseph R. […]

While you and your friends and family may have been having fun celebrating our nation’s independence on Saturday, failed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick was not in a good mood. No, the marker of 1776 brought out an opportunistic petulance in Kaepernick that he wanted to share with the rest of […]

WASHINGTON — Prince Andrew’s lawyers had discussions with a Washington lobbyist with ties to the Trump administration about the possibility of assisting the prince with fallout from his relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Lawyers from the London-based firm Blackfords consulted the lobbyist, Robert Stryk, who represents international figures […]

President Trump’s favored Senate candidate in Alabama, Tommy Tuberville, is known for his career as a college football coach. But he also had a brief stint as co-owner of a hedge fund. It did not go well. A little more than a decade ago, after departing from Auburn University where […]

Emmanuel Macron, president of France. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images By MATEI ROSCA and RYM MOMTAZ 07/05/2020 10:25 AM EDT French President Emmanuel Macron’s office will announce the make-up of the new government on Monday, according to an Elysee official. The move would come after former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and […]