The deal would address President Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war.
President Trump phoned Rep. Max Miller Monday and expressed doubts about the Ohio Republican's candidacy amid reports he assaulted his ex-wife and their child, three sources familiar with the call said. - On the call, the president told Miller that "things aren't looking good" and repeatedly said his reelection would be tough, the three sources said. - Miller, who denies hurting his wife and child, told the president he is staying in the race, one of the sources said. - Miller said his own polling showed him in solid shape. Why it matters: The Monday night private conversation was different in tone than Trump's public comments about Miller. The president has refrained from criticizing Miller or from calling on him to drop out of his…
When you read Umberto Eco's Foucault’s Pendulum and saw the allusions to Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, did you begin to suspect a Plan. Did you think that James was obviously sending you on a literary journey from one stepping stone to the next on the way to a predetermined destination? That would be a perfectly reasonable supposition...but it's completely incorrect. These works were chosen completely independently from each other by people who didn't even know of the other's existence, let alone the other's choice of book. Does this information bother you? Should it? Why? These are the sorts of questions one begins to ask oneself when you engage in a rabbit hole as large and as all consuming as Foucault's Pendulum—a rabbit hole that…
McMahon continued her talk about a return to greatness for U.S. colleges and universities on 'Just the News, No Noise' just hours after she made public a stinging open letter to high education leaders on the issue.
A plane with 147 Venezuelans landed on Monday in the South American country amid criticism over the deaths of deportees housed in a collapsed building during June’s quakes.