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President Trump on Monday floated the notion of a consumer boycott of AT&T, the telecommunications firm turned media colossus, an apparent attempt to punish the company for the news coverage produced by one of its subsidiaries, CNN. “I believe that if people stoped using or subscribing to @ATT, they would be forced to make big […]

Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. [Get On Politics delivered to your inbox.] President Trump isn’t much of a churchgoer. During his time in the White House, his church visits have largely been limited to Christmas and Easter services. When asked for his

WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s acting chief of staff, sought on Sunday to play down the White House’s directive to hide a Navy destroyer named after Senator John McCain during the president’s visit to a naval base in Japan last week. Mr. Mulvaney said that a young White House staff member, knowing of Mr.

Donald M. Fraser, a former Minnesota congressman whose hearings exposed a conspiracy by South Korean intelligence officials and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in the 1970s to buy political influence in America and manipulate United States foreign policies and currency laws, died on Sunday at his home in Minneapolis. He was 95. A spokesman for

Esther McVey says she will “ensure” the UK leaves the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal. The former work and pensions secretary – and avid Brexiteer – is one of 13 Tory MPs running to become the party’s next leader. Speaking to the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire, she said she would not allow

THE CONSERVATIVE SENSIBILITYBy George F. Will There are two words utterly absent from this defense of conservatism in 2019 in America: Donald Trump. In this dense volume, dedicated in many ways to the virtue of restraint, George F. Will does to the president what the president most fears: He ignores him. This is at once

Candidates for the Conservative leadership contest should need a proposer, seconder and 10 further MPs to nominate them, a joint secretary of the 1922 committee has suggested. Nigel Evans said there was a need to get the number of contenders “down to a manageable proportion”. He was speaking to Politics Live presenter Jo Coburn about

But interviews with top advisers and confidants from then and now help explain how Mr. Biden came to see himself as presidential material in the first place, and suggest that the central tensions and vulnerabilities laid bare during Biden ’88 remain the most urgent questions at the core of Biden 2020: Can he credibly present

Housing Minister James Brokenshire has urged Conservative leadership candidates who are “unlikely to get over the first fence” to drop out of the race. He said there was “a pressing, pressing need to see that we make progress with this contest”, adding: “There is no embarrassment in standing down at this point.” So far 13

WASHINGTON — Averting a potentially devastating default on the nation’s debt, preventing more than $100 billion in automatic spending cuts and keeping the government fully funded would be major tasks in any Congress. In this one, they may be herculean. As lawmakers return to Washington on Monday, they confront a gantlet of fiscal deadlines, and