Sunday's Headlines: Senator and 2008 GOP presidential nominee driven by code of honor dies at 81
McCain was a force of nature in Washington with an unrivaled global stature; Past presidents, political rivals, Senate colleagues pay tribute; McCain's death marks a new era for...
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John McCain, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in July 2017, endured more than five years of imprisonment and torture by the North Vietnamese as a young Navy pilot. He went on to battle foes — on the left and the right — in the marble corridors of Washington. A Republican who seemed his truest self when outraged, he reveled in opposing orthodoxy and spent decades representing Arizona in the Senate. He twice ran unsuccessfully for president.
"Our nation aches for truth-tellers. This man will be greatly missed," said Republican Sen. Ben Sasse. President Trump extended his sympathies to the McCain family.
It still has a long way to go if it is to reclaim its past glories as a capital of culture and entertainment, Iraqis say. But there's a widespread consensus that at no time in the past 40 years has Baghdad been as free and as fun as it is now.
President Trump seems politically wounded as longtime aides and trusted associates cooperate with prosecutors and embarrassing revelations about his affairs and his charity trickle out, uncontained.
By David Fahrenthold, Josh Dawsey and Rosalind Helderman • Read more »
After thousands of years of most people on the planet living as serfs, as slaves or in other destitute scenarios, half the population now has the financial means to be able to do more than just try to survive. So how much money does it take to meet the definition of middle-class?
Several decisions by policymakers and lawmakers to defang regulation and defund investigations, particularly through political pressure aimed at the Internal Revenue Service, helped the tax fraud and campaign finance violations to go unnoticed.
By Damian Paletta, Robert O'Harrow and Michelle Lee • Read more »
A federal judge dealt a victory to federal employees and the unions that represent them, invalidating key provisions of a series of Trump administration executive orders aimed at making it easier to fire employees and weaken the unions.
Leo Varadkar, whose father was an Indian immigrant, is the first openly gay leader of Ireland — and a distinct example of how what was once an overwhelmingly white, Catholic nation is now increasingly diverse and its laws increasingly secular.
The arrests capped off a week of tensions that began Monday when protesters gathered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and used a rope to pull down a statue of an anonymous Confederate soldier.
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