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Conservative leadership candidate Boris Johnson should be “braver” and do media interviews, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the Today programme. “What would Churchill say if someone who wants to be prime minster is hiding away from the media?” Johnson’s rivals have committed to taking part in TV leadership debates on Channel 4 and the BBC

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has sold the stock she owned in one of the nation’s biggest manufacturers of highway construction materials, just days after the holding raised questions over a potential conflict of interest. Ms. Chao sold the shares, worth $250,000 to $500,000, last Monday, according to a letter the Transportation Department released

• Twenty Democratic presidential candidates will take the debate stage later this month. Steve Bullock, Seth Moulton and Wayne Messam will be left out. • Those candidates didn’t make the cut, in part, because they failed to reach 1 percent in three qualifying polls. The exclusions illustrate the challenge of using polls at this early

Plans for a fiercely contested coal mine in northeastern Australia received a long-awaited government green light on Thursday, less than a month after conservative politicians who champion coal triumphed in national elections. An environmental permit issued by the Queensland State government cleared the way for an Indian company, the Adani Group, to start work on

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s accusation on Thursday that Iran was behind an attack on two oil tankers forces President Trump to confront a choice he has avoided until now: whether to make good on his threat that Tehran would “suffer greatly” if American interests were imperiled. For weeks, Mr. Trump has weaved

“He still claims first place,” said J.Ann Selzer, president of the firm that conducted the poll. “But under the surface of that first place is kind of shaky ground.” At Mr. Biden’s events this week, which also included a stop at a rural 4-H hall, a visit to a diner and trips to two college

WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department announced on Thursday that it planned to relocate two scientific divisions to the Kansas City region from Washington, despite resistance from career staff members and concern that the move will erode the quality of research at the agency. More than 500 jobs will shift across the country as the department

Mr. Castro needs to have a breakthrough moment For candidates who have participated in Fox News town halls, the setting has provided them an occasion to promote their campaigns on a network that often tops cable news ratings. It has also afforded some of them a sizzling, quasi-viral moment or two. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of

“He still claims first place,” said J. Ann Selzer, president of the firm that conducted the poll. “But under the surface of that first place is kind of shaky ground.” At Mr. Biden’s events this week, which also included a stop at a rural 4-H hall, a visit to a diner and trips to two