Evening Edition: GOP leader McCarthy relishes role as Trump’s fixer and friend
Flake isn't just comparing Trump to Stalin. He's equating the GOP to Stalin's enablers. MLK's scorn for 'white moderates' in his letter written from behind bars
Kevin McCarthy, the No. 2 Republican in the House, has a singular place in the president's circle — and has sought to position himself as Trump's indispensable man in Congress, someone who gets him and likes him.
GOP Sen. Jeff Flake is free to speak his mind because he is retiring rather than risking a loss in the primary because he has been an outspoken critic of President Trump. His argument is that to save the party, other Republicans need to follow his lead in not standing by Trump.
Martin Luther King Jr. was kept in solitary confinement after being arrested April 12, 1963, on charges of violating Alabama's law against mass public demonstrations. Parts of his powerful "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" offered a scathing critique of "white moderates" unwilling to do the right thing — a message that still resonates.
President Trump began today the same way he has each day of the long weekend: by tweeting before leaving his private Mar-a-Lago estate and then taking a motorcade to his club. The White House generally does not confirm whether Trump is playing golf while at Trump International Golf Club.
The singer-songwriter and the Irish alternative band became an international sensation in the 1990s. Her trademark powerful, unique voice — with its yodels and Irish accent — came to characterize the band's sound.
Far more Americans are middle class than wealthy, so there are fewer dollars to share per taxpayer when savings from a tax cut are divvied up. The bill can be framed as good — or bad — depending on the perspective one uses.
A 23-year-old photographer from Brooklyn detailed a date with the comic that ended with sexual activity that she did not want. Ansari had previously declared himself a feminist and has co-written a bestseller about dating and love.
The U.S.-led coalition is training recruits for a border security force that would be stationed along Syria's borders with Turkey and Iraq. The group would involve Kurdish fighters that Turkey views as a threat.
Phil Murphy's term begins tomorrow. Republicans hope to use his liberal agenda to persuade voters not to vote Democratic in dozens of governor's races playing out this year.
Jonathan Pace, an electrical engineer in Germantown, Tenn., started hunting for primes 14 years ago using software provided by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. Pace's prime is calculated by multiplying 2 by itself 77,232,917 times and then subtracting 1.
Many parents experience anxiety on the matter, and with so many sources of guidance it's easy to see why. But looking at approaches from around the world show there's no one-size-fits-all model.
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