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Eric Trump, President Trump's younger son, said said he wants someone to start fighting for his father. “I want somebody to start fighting for him,” Trump told Fox News’s “Hannity,” on Monday night. Trump’s comments come several days after the Senate failed to pass legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare, a key campaign promise of both President Trump and congressional Republicans.  “My father has the voice of this country, the people of this country love him. Why wouldn’t they get in line?

The Daily Beast reported Monday night that former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been fired from the pro-Trump cable news channel One America News Network. Lewandowski, now an informal adviser to President Trump, reportedly angered his bosses by appearing frequently on competing networks, such as Fox News. When asked directly by The Daily Beast if he had a reason to deny its reporting, Herring reportedly replied: “I have none whatsoever.” 

  House Judiciary Committee member Rep.

Sam Shepard, whose hallucinatory plays redefined the landscape of the American West and its inhabitants, died on Thursday at his home in Kentucky. He was 73. A spokesman for his family announced the death on Monday, saying the cause was complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Possessed of a stoically handsome face and a rangy frame, Mr.

Sam Shepard, whose hallucinatory plays redefined the landscape of the American West and its inhabitants, died on Thursday at his home in Kentucky. He was 73. A spokesman for his family announced the death on Monday, saying the cause was complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Possessed of a stoically handsome face and a rangy frame, Mr.

Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • American Embassy workers in Moscow are bracing for a “shock to the system” after Russia ordered the dismissal of 755 employees in retaliation for U.S.

Dining at a coveted window seat in the luminous River Café, which rests on a former coffee barge in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, even the most jaundiced New Yorkers have to concede that, yes, the magic endures. This beloved nautical institution — it is not really floating, but sits atop an underwater pier — was conceived in one of New York City’s bleakest hours, and its startling success infused life, and hope, into a decaying waterfront bereft of both.

Dining at a coveted window seat in the luminous River Café, which rests on a former coffee barge in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, even the most jaundiced New Yorkers have to concede that, yes, the magic endures. This beloved nautical institution — it is not really floating, but sits atop an underwater pier — was conceived in one of New York City’s bleakest hours, and its startling success infused life, and hope, into a decaying waterfront bereft of both.

For decades it was proudly displayed in the Greco-Roman galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a 2,300-year-old, vividly painted vase that depicts Dionysus, god of the grape harvest, riding in a cart pulled by a satyr. Today it sits in an evidence room at the district attorney’s office in Manhattan after prosecutors quietly seized the antiquity last week based on evidence that it had been looted by tomb raiders in Italy in the 1970s. Investigators issued a warrant to the Met on July