Politics

BURLINGTON, Iowa — As Senator Cory Booker swept through Iowa on a four-day visit over Memorial Day weekend, he called on his often overflowing crowds to approach the presidential primary campaign through a new paradigm. “This election, I get a little frustrated, I have to admit to everybody,” he told a crowd of about 200 […]

TOKYO — As the leader of the free world, and a man never shy around the spotlight, President Trump is rarely a spectator to the events surrounding him. Leave it to a bunch of sumo wrestlers to steal his thunder. On Sunday, inside the Ryogoku Kokugikan, a stadium near the Sumida River in Tokyo, Prime

TOKYO — As the leader of the free world, and a man never shy around the spotlight, President Trump is rarely a spectator to the events surrounding him. Leave it to a bunch of sumo wrestlers to steal his thunder. On Sunday, inside the Ryogoku Kokugikan, a stadium near the Sumida River in Tokyo, Prime

Michael Gove has said he will enter the race to be Tory leader, challenging his former Vote Leave ally Boris Johnson. Speaking outside his home, Environment Secretary Mr Gove said: “I can confirm that I will be putting my name forward to be prime minister of this country. “I believe that I’m ready to unite

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Senator Bernie Sanders returned to his home state on Saturday for the first time since he declared in February that he was running for president again, displaying the uncompromisingly liberal defiance that many of those in the audience have been hearing for decades. Under overcast skies, Mr. Sanders lamented big corporations, argued

“Absolutely. In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism,” he responded, again to zero laughter. After the debate, Republican lawmakers did deride Mr. Sanders for this answer, while fact-checkers noted that he had overstated the link between climate change and terrorism. Still, the notion that climate change posed a national security

They accelerated in July when the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said that the administration was considering revoking the clearances of Mr. Comey, John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director under President Barack Obama; Michael V. Hayden, who was a C.I.A. director under President George W. Bush; and others. The White House said a

TOKYO — President Trump kicked off the first full day of a state visit to Japan on Sunday by playing down North Korea’s recent tests of short-range ballistic missiles, undercutting declarations by both Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the president’s own national security adviser that the launches violated United Nations resolutions. “North Korea fired off

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Scarlett Lewis sees reminders of her son Jesse — who died at age 6 with 19 classmates and six educators in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting — in photographs on her refrigerator door, in portraits she painted of him from memory and now, uncomfortably, in the Newtown Community Center, a soaring

Health Secretary Matt Hancock says he would be “brutally honest” about what it would take to get a Brexit deal through Parliament if he becomes the next prime minister. Announcing he’s running for Tory leader, he tells BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the next PM must be “completely straight forward” or risk running into