President Trump calls for a boycott of AT&T to force “big changes” at subsidiary CNN. “I believe that if people stoped using or subscribing to @ATT, they would be forced to make big changes at @CNN, which is dying in the ratings anyway. It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News!” Trump tweets from […] Read more

Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament early on Thursday, paving the way for a new election after veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government before a midnight deadline. The ballot is widely expected to take place in September, the second this year. It represented unprecedented upheaval, commentators said, even in a […] Read more

Italy’s nationalist Lega party is set to win the majority of the country’s seats at the European Parliament, while its coalition partner in Rome has seen a slump in support. Initial results — with over half the ballots counted — suggested that Lega would take around 34% of the vote against just 17% for the […] Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday directed former White House counsel Don McGahn not to comply with a subpoena to testify about special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report, intensifying a clash between the Trump administration and the House Democrats who subpoenaed McGahn to appear. In a 15-page legal memo from the Department of Justice and a […] Read more

Mayor Bill de Blasio officially entered the 2020 race for president Thursday morning, vowing to make his campaign a battle against corporations and the wealthy — especially fellow New Yorker Donald Trump. In an announcement video, de Blasio touted his familiarity with the president: “I know how to take him on.” “Donald Trump must be […] Read more

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who has cast himself as a bipartisan leader, announces he is entering the crowded field of Democrats for the 2020 presidential race. Bullock, 53, has pressed issues including expanded health care, early childhood education, wage equality and campaign finance reform in his red state. He is in his second term as […] Read more

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Sunday acknowledged that the Chinese do not directly pay tariffs on goods coming into the U.S., contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims that China will pay for tariffs imposed by the U.S. Kudlow said that “both sides will suffer on this,” but argued that China will suffer significant GDP […] Read more

President Trump accuses China of pulling back from agreed-upon trade deal language because the nation would rather negotiate with Joe Biden “or one of the very weak Democrats” vying to challenge him in 2020. The tweets show that Trump’s attention is on Biden, the Democratic front-runner, even as he prepares for the most crucial trade […] Read more

Democratic presidential candidates swarm. A nine-term U.S. House incumbent faces a primary challenge. Farmers watch to see whether President Donald Trump can end his trade conflicts — and ease their financial pain. That’s only the start of the intrigue in Iowa ahead of the 2020 elections. Even for a presidential campaign staging ground and White […] Read more

President Trump’s personal lawyers, his reelection campaign and his political backers were quick to dismiss the contents of the newly released Mueller report. “The results of the investigation are a total victory for the President,” Trump’s four personal attorneys say in a statement. Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee chair issued similar declarations. […] Read more