Laura King

President Trump attends the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia on Dec. 14, 2019.

A Senate impeachment trial of President Trump is expected, but how it’ll work is very uncertain

December 15, 2019 at 10:51 p.m.

Senate Republicans on Sunday publicly diverged over how to conduct the expected impeachment trial of President Trump, with some calling for allegations against him to be summarily quashed and others...

COLLEGE STATION, TX - DECEMBER 01: Visitors sign a guest book at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center on December 1, 2018 in College Station, Texas. Bush, who died on November 30, will be buried next to his wife Barbara at the library on Thursday. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Con solemnidad y pompa, Washington lleva a cabo el funeral de George H.W. Bush

May 15, 2019 at 4:34 p.m.

Ha pasado más de una década desde que Washington llevó a cabo el gran y solemne ritual de despedir a un expresidente. Ahora, la capital del país está ocupada con...

President Trump disembarks from Air Force One in Moon Township, Pa., on Saturday for a rally. Trump spoke to the audience about North Korea: "Who knows what's going to happen?"

CIA chief says Trump aims to ‘solve a problem’ with North Korea talks, but critics express misgivings

August 22, 2019 at 8:06 a.m.

Senior administration officials expressed confidence Sunday that President Trump would not be taken advantage of by North Korea’s Kim Jong Un prior to and during any direct talks, but critics...

A group of mothers and kids carrying signs join in a rally against gun violence in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 19.

NRA rejects Trump’s call for raising the age limit to buy rifles

August 22, 2019 at 7:55 a.m.

Amid an increasingly passionate nationwide debate over gun safety, the National Rifle Assn. on Sunday rejected President Trump’s call for a federal ban on rifle sales to those younger than...

The West Wing of the White House is dark on Sunday.

Much as White House might try to soften blow, government shutdowns are costly and cumbersome

August 22, 2019 at 7:28 a.m.

The government shutdown is fast becoming an unwelcome and costly staple of American democracy. After the last prolonged closure delivered a substantial hit to the economy and created hardship and...

In this photo obtained by the Associated Press, anti-riot Iranian police prevent university students from joining other protesters in Tehran on Saturday. (Associated Press)

Trump’s backing of Iranian protesters could backfire as Tehran cracks down

August 22, 2019 at 7:12 a.m.

On issues from climate change to healthcare, there are few things President Trump relishes more than doing the opposite of something his predecessor did. Now an eruption of anti-government protests...

People walk on Tahlia street in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Sept. 24, 2017, during celebrations for the anniversary of the founding of the kingdom.

In gilded Saudi royal circles, corruption has long been a way of life

August 22, 2019 at 6:34 a.m.

Behind the walls of one of his many opulent palaces, the king was troubled. He knew all too well that the self-dealing ways and gold-plated lifestyle of the House of...

This undated file photo posted on Aug. 27, 2014 shows a fighter from the Islamic State group, armed with a knife and an automatic weapon, next to captured Syrian army soldiers and officers, following the battle for the Tabqa air base in Raqqa.

What was life like in Syria’s Raqqah, the fallen capital of Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’?

August 22, 2019 at 6:18 a.m.

Before it fell under the sway of Islamic State in January 2014, the Syrian crossroads city of Raqqah, on the northern banks of the Euphrates River in historic Mesopotamia, had...

4 deaths reported as Hurricane Irma rakes Caribbean, with Florida likely in crosshairs

August 22, 2019 at 5:46 a.m.

Floridians hit the highways, scrambled for scarce supplies and hammered plywood over windows as a monster hurricane made landfall in the Caribbean, where it was blamed for at least four...

Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to Syrian diplomats in Damascus on Aug. 20, 2017.

‘Assad’s government has won the war.’ So what happens next?

August 22, 2019 at 5:44 a.m.

In southern Syria's chilly late winter of 2011, a scrap of schoolboy graffiti that read "Your turn, Doctor" — a mocking call for the ouster of President Bashar Assad —...

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