Article snippet: Perhaps most jarring to this year’s freshmen, three Democrats in their late 70s are running unopposed in elections this week for the top leadership spots in the House. Trump slams Fed chair, questions climate change and threatens to cancel Putin meeting Mississippi voters are choosing between a white Republican Senate appointee backed by President Trump and a black Democrat who was agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration. It was filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The new president of Mexico has built his entire political career on defending the poor. Now, President Trump is testing how firmly he will live up to that. Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith won a divisive runoff in Mississippi to remain in office, defeating Democrat Mike Espy and giving the GOP 53 seats in the Senate. WASHINGTON — A lawyer for Paul Manafort, the president’s onetime campaign chairman, repeatedly briefed President Donald Trump’s lawyers on his client’s discussions with federal investigators after Manafort agreed to cooperate with the special counsel, according to one of Trump’s lawyers and two other people familiar with the conversations. President Trump said he is not among the ‘‘believers’’ who see climate change as a pressing problem. The e-mails showed one of Scott Pruitt’s aides suggesting the interview, passing along ‘‘talking points,’’ and given the chance by a Fox producer to approve a script. Opinion | Philip He... Link to the full article to read more