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  Actor Alec Baldwin was roasted by a host of his former co-stars, family and friends in a special that aired Sunday night, with a guest appearance by former President MORE. Acknowledging the political climate and Baldwin’s role portraying President Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” Clinton took the stage joking that the actor is “stuck with a boring former president trapped in a reality-based world,” adding, “I wouldn’t know an alternative fact if it hit me in the face.” Clinton drew big applause from the Apollo theater in New York, Clinton praised Baldwin’s career and

Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) is slamming President Obama for not alerting Congress to a recent breach of the Internal Revenue Service. “The President has a duty to inform Congress of cyber attacks on federal infrastructure, yet once again has tried to sweep this under the rug,” Daines said in a statement. The breach occurred in December.

One morning a few weeks ago, I was leaving the building where I live, on a quiet, historic block in Brooklyn, and found a large group of tourists outside on the sidewalk, selfie sticks in hand, led by a guide who was shepherding them around the neighborhood as he lectured.

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • Iraq’s prime minister declared victory and congratulated his armed forces for wresting Mosul, the country’s second-largest city, from the Islamic State. But government troops were still mopping up pockets of resistance and expected guerrilla attacks for weeks to come.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Members of the Ku Klux Klan rallied here on Saturday afternoon in a protest meant to assail the city’s decision to remove a statue of Robert E.

BEIJING — Liu Xiaobo, the political prisoner and Nobel laureate who is on medical parole in a Chinese hospital to treat late-stage liver cancer, is fit to travel abroad to receive medical care, doctors from the United States and Germany said on Sunday. The doctors, Joseph M. Herman of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Markus Büchler of the University of Heidelberg, who evaluated Mr.

Seventy firefighters battled for three hours early Monday to bring under control a dramatic blaze at Camden Lock Market, a popular London tourist destination, the city’s fire brigade said. The blaze — which came less than four weeks after a fire consumed the Grenfell Tower apartment block in w

ISTANBUL — Hundreds of thousands of protesters turned out for a massive rally in Istanbul on Sunday evening, cheering the leader of the opposition as he concluded his three-week March for Justice and threw down a challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to institute changes or face a “revolt against injustice.” “Nobody should think this march has ended; this

Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany, prompting an outcry on social media and a swift defense from her brother Donald Trump Jr. Ms. Trump, who had been sitting in the back of the room during a discussion of topics that were relevant to her, joined the main table when Mr. Trump had to step out, a White House official said. When other leaders left the table, their seats were also filled by others in their delegations, the official added. But Ms.

In an Australian news broadcast that seems to have resonated with Americans, a political journalist delivered a scathing evaluation of President Trump’s performance last week at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany. The journalist, Chris Uhlmann, said in a segment originally broadcast on the program “Insiders,” that Mr.