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SEOUL, South Korea — American warplanes flew close to North Korea’s coast on Saturday, the same day that the North’s foreign minister told the United Nations General Assembly that President Trump’s threats against the country were “making our rocket’s visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable all the more.” On Twitter, Mr. Trump responded to Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho’s speech with yet another threat. Saying he had heard Mr.

WASHINGTON — The White House has created a list of about a half-dozen candidates to be the next leader of the Federal Reserve, including its current chairwoman, Janet L. Yellen, and the president’s chief economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn, according to two administration officials and a third person with knowledge of the process. The list also includes Jerome H. Powell, a member of the Fed’s board of governors; Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor; and the Stanford University economist John B. Taylor, the officials said.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — When President Trump took the stage here just days before Alabama’s pivotal Republican Senate runoff, he all but revealed his Oval Office deliberations about whether to stand with Senator Luther Strange and risk attaching himself to a potential loser. “If Luther doesn’t win, they’re not going to say we picked up 25 points in a very short period of time, they’re going say, ‘Donald Trump, the president of the United States, was unable to pull his candidate across the line,’” he predicted to 7,500 Alabamians at a rally on Friday night as Mr.

Here is our not-so-happy sports and politics recap, and all who complain about the mixture of the two are advised to register their complaints with the White House switchboard. Our president went to Alabama on Friday evening to campaign for a deeply conservative candidate and, as is his fashion, went stream of consciousness, pulling the rest of us along to his darkest corner. Before a vastly white audience — and race appears the inescapable subtext here — he seized on the athletes, nearly all of them bla

OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors said he awoke Saturday morning to “about 20 text messages” from friends who were expressing their support for him. At first, he said, he had no idea what they were talking about because he had not checked social media.

President Trump took aim at two of the world’s most powerful sports leagues and some of their most popular athletes, directly inserting himself into an already fiery debate over race, social justice and athlete activism and stoking a running battle on social media over his comments. In a speech on Friday and a series of tweets on Saturday, he urged N.F.L. owners to fire players who do not stand for the national anthem, suggested that football is declining because it is not as violent as it once was and seemed to disinvite the N.B.A.

President Trump took aim at two of the world’s most powerful sports leagues and some of their most popular athletes, directly inserting himself into an already fiery debate over race, social justice and athlete activism and stoking a running battle on social media over his comments. In a speech on Friday and a series of tweets on Saturday, he urged N.F.L. owners to fire players who do not stand for the national anthem, suggested that football is declining because it is not as violent as it once was and seemed to disinvite the N.B.A.

Senator Luther Strange and former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jeff Sessions in the U.S. Senate. The debate – held without a moderator – focused largely on who would best support and advocate for President Trump’s agenda in the U.S.

Next week, Alabama voters will head to the polls for a Republican primary runoff for the Senate seat previously occupied by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

President Donald Trump will visit Alabama Friday to campaign ahead of the Senate runoff for the Republican primary to fill the seat left vacant by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump, who won the state by a nearly 28 percent margin in the 2016 presidential election, has endorsed Luther Strange, the incumbent temporarily appointed to fill the seat. “Alabama is sooo lucky to have a candidate like 'Big' Luther Strange,” Trump tweeted about his favored candidate Wednesday. Vice President Mike Pence is also expected to