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All five living former presidents took to the stage at a benefit concert to raise funds for disaster relief Saturday night. Former presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W.

President Trump said Saturday he would allow the release of confidential files related to the assassination of former President John F.

President Trump has pledged to spend at least $430,000 of his own money to help cover legal fees for White House aides and campaign staff related to the probe into Russia's election meddling. A White House official told Axios and The Washington Post on Sat

RICHMOND, Va. — Democrats are looking to mobilize black voters for Virginia’s crucial gubernatorial race, hoping to boost turnout with a core constituency that has repeatedly helped turn the state blue in the past. The governor’s race is one of the biggest electoral prizes on the ballot this year. With turnout expected to be significantly lower than last year’s presidential race, both parties are scrambling to make sure their base heads to the polls.  Democrats are working to engage black voters, who made up 20 percent of the electorate in the 2013 governor’s race and helped elect Gov.

PARIS — When a fledgling alternative press published Gabrielle Deydier’s plaintive memoir of growing up fat in France, there was little expectation that the book would attract much notice. Frenchwomen are among the thinnest in Europe, high fashion is big business, and obesity isn’t often discussed. “To be fat in France is to be a loser,” Ms. Deydier said. So no one, least of all Ms.

PARIS — When a fledgling alternative press published Gabrielle Deydier’s plaintive memoir of growing up fat in France, there was little expectation that the book would attract much notice. Frenchwomen are among the thinnest in Europe, high fashion is big business, and obesity isn’t often discussed. “To be fat in France is to be a loser,” Ms. Deydier said. So no one, least of all Ms.

HOUSTON — As players embraced, thanking one another for a season full of memories, clubhouse attendants neatly packed bags of gear at lockers around the visitors’ clubhouse.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea decided Friday to resume construction of two nuclear plants, reversing a campaign promise by the new president and frustrating supporters who want the country to phase out nuclear power. In the months before his election, President Moon Jae-in had vowed not to allow any new reactors. When he made that pledge, five nuclear power plants were under construction, three of them near completion. Mr.

WASHINGTON — Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, said on Friday night that the Fed is making “good progress” in reducing its vast portfolio of bond holdings, the most recent stage in the central bank’s gradual unwinding of its post-crisis economic stimulus program. Ms. Yellen said a safe retreat was a crucial step in establishing that similar measures could be used to respond to future economic downturns. “The bottom line is that we must recognize that our unconventional tools might have to be used again,” Ms.

CAIRO — Militants carried out a devastating ambush on a convoy of Egyptian police and security officials deep inside the western desert late Friday in the deadliest such attack in years, security officials said on Saturday. At least 59 Egyptian police officers and security officials were killed, security officials said. In a statement issued later, the Interior Ministry put the casualties much lower — 16 officers killed and 13 wounded — but did not immediately explain the discrepancy.