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Sen. MORE (D-Conn.) called for President Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner's resignation on Thursday in the wake of news that he attended a meeting with a Kremlin-linked attorney during the campaign. "I think Jared Kushner ought to resign," Blumenthal said on "Hardball with Chris Matthews." "Either

House Majority Leader MORE (R-Ohio) as Speaker. Several lawmakers are talking about McCarthy, the second-ranking House Republican, as the odds-on favorite in the wake of Boehner’s surprise decision to leave Congress at the end of October. Rep.

Who’s afraid of “Hamlet”? Certainly not the director Sam Gold, whose gloriously involving new production at the Public Theater treats Shakespeare’s daunting tragedy with an easy, jokey familiarity that’s usually reserved for siblings and longtime drinking buddies. As in such relationships, Mr.

Few, if any, literary philosophers have had as much influence on American business and politics as Ayn Rand, especially now that Donald J. Trump occupies the White House. President Trump named Rand his favorite writer and “The Fountainhead” his favorite novel. Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has cited “Atlas Shrugged” as a favorite work, and the C.I.A.

The domestic airlines would like you to know that they are very sorry. Delta is sorry about the time it kicked a family off a flight and threatened to arrest them.

The domestic airlines would like you to know that they are very sorry. Delta is sorry about the time it kicked a family off a flight and threatened to arrest them.

RICHMOND, Ky. — Just 24 hours old, Jay’la Cy’anne Clay already was having a rough day. Convulsions rocked her tiny body as she lay under warming lights in the nursery of the Baptist Health Richmond hospital. She vomited and made strange, high-pitched cries. The infant was going through opioid withdrawal. For more than a decade, her mother, Jamie Clay, 28, had been hooked on oxycodone.

In an extraordinarily brazen assault, three men armed with guns and knives attacked Israeli police officers early Friday in the vicinity of what Jews call the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, Jerusalem’s holiest site for both faiths and an emotional and volatile focal point of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Three Israelis were wounded, two of them critically, according to the emergency services.