By ALEXANDER BURNS and MAGGIE HABERMAN Donald Trump was in a state of shock: He had just fired his campaign manager and was watching the man discuss his dismissal at length on CNN. The rattled candidate’s advisers and family seized the moment for an intervention. Joined by his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, […]
JASON HOROWITZ The throngs of New Yorkers who poured into Coney Island on a sweltering Sunday in July 1939 — shuffling past the rides, hot-dog stands and freak shows — confronted one last spectacle blaring just beyond the surf. At 65 feet and outfitted with enormous Trump signs, the yacht called the Trump Show Boat […]
ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON — A new batch of U.S. State Department emails released Tuesday showed the close and sometimes overlapping interests between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state. The documents raised new questions about whether the charitable foundation worked to reward its donors with access and […]
AMY CHOZICK The parents of two Americans killed in the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, filed a lawsuit Monday against Hillary Clinton, saying that her “’extreme carelessness’ in handling confidential and classified information” while secretary of state contributed to the conditions that led to their sons’ deaths. In the wrongful-death […]
ALAN RAPPEPORT Donald Trump will look to move past a week of turmoil Monday as he heads to Michigan to deliver a policy address on a subject that he considers his strong suit: the economy. Trump, who will be joined by his running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, will speak at a Detroit Economic […]
NICK CORASANITI GREEN BAY, Wis. — Moving to heal a deepening rift within the Republican Party, Donald Trump belatedly endorsed the primary campaign of Speaker Paul D. Ryan here Friday, giving his backing to the re-election effort of the nation’s most powerful elected Republican. “I support and endorse our speaker of the House, Paul Ryan,” […]
NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Donald Trump all but erased his enormous financial disadvantage against Hillary Clinton in the span of just two months, according to figures released by his campaign on Tuesday, converting the passion of his core followers into a flood of small donations on a scale rarely seen in national politics. Trump and the Republican […]
EDUARDO PORTER It may be hard to remember, but Americans once appreciated the government that serves them. That’s long gone. Over the past six years, according to the Pew Research Center, four out of every five — or more — have said the government makes them feel either angry or frustrated. In March, the ranks […]
STEVE EDER and DAVE PHILIPPS Kitty Bennett contributed research. In 1968, at the age of 22, Donald Trump seemed the picture of health. He stood 6 feet 2 inches with an athletic build; had played football, tennis and squash; and was taking up golf. His medical history was unblemished, aside from a routine appendectomy when […]
Donald Trump, confronting a daunting electoral map and a significant financial disadvantage, is preparing to fall back from an expansive national campaign and concentrate the bulk of his time and money on just three or four states that his campaign believes he must sweep to win the presidency. Even as Trump has ticked up in […]