An Explosive Trump Ruling, and a Chaotic Congo Election

Gail Collins: Hey, Bret, good to be conversing again. Heck of a lot going on. Before we get to the border or the budget, though, let me admit I’m shallow and start with the Trump town hall on CNN. Bret Stephens: Not shallow, Gail. But you are depressing me. Gail:…

Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, a Democrat running a long-shot primary challenge to President Biden, said on Saturday that he would consider running on the ticket of No Labels, a centrist group exploring an independent bid, if it appeared the general election would be a rematch between Mr. Biden and…

But it soon became a problem. Mr. Prigozhin, riding a wave of popularity, became increasingly personal and insulting in his denunciations of Mr. Shoigu. Yet Mr. Putin failed to mediate. Though he arranged a meeting between the two men in February, he did not, according to a source in the…

The Kremlin complex sits in the center of Moscow, and contains the Russian president’s official residence and main office.Credit…Yuri Kochetkov/EPA, via Shutterstock President Vladimir V. Putin has long operated within the confines of a tight security bubble, which became even tighter and more isolating during the coronavirus pandemic. The sprawling…

The Scene Did you hear? There was a mass gathering of Republican 2024 hopefuls in Iowa on Sunday — near Cedar Rapids, amid the midsummer seas of ripening cornstalks and the darker hues of rows of soybeans. This was after a Republican Party fund-raising dinner in Des Moines nine days…

An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport on Friday evening after experiencing what the federal authorities described as a midair “pressurization issue” that passengers said blew out a chunk of the fuselage. The airline said that Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 had made a safe emergency…