President Trump will offer “a path forward for America’s engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia” in a speech on Monday that is likely to include increasing the American military presence there. Even as leaders commended the performance of the country’s commandos, there is worry Afghanistan’s security forces cannot defend the country on their own. What was supposed to be an amicable departure for the president’s chief strategist became a messy exit after public furor over the president’s response to a race-fueled melee. Calling himself “Bannon the Barbarian,” the president’s former strategy adviser says he’s ready to “crush” his foes inside and outside the White House. In a departure from their predecessors, some in the Trump administration have surmised that Cold War-style containment will not work and that a military option is available. The statement from the Treasury secretary, who is Jewish, was perhaps the most vociferous defense of the president from within his administration. Rumors of a pardon for a former sheriff, Joe Arpaio, could deepen racial wounds exposed by the president’s comments on Charlottesville, Va. The president’s brand is no winner in Washington gift shops. But first ladies do better anyway. “They don’t make public policy, and they’re easier to like.” Sapa in northwest Vietnam is a place of rice terrace farming. Hear from Mái, a Hmong rice farmer, on how the changing climate is affecting the rice harvest. Judge, who went 0-4, extended a major league record by striking out for the 37th game in a row, while Yankees starter Sonny Gray failed to record any strikeouts in five innings of work. Tal Afar is one of the last big cities in Iraq still under control of extremists. Mr. Lewis rose to fame as Dean Martin’s comedy partner but went on to a major solo career with films like “The Bellboy” and “The Nutty Professor.” The comic and filmmaker, who died Sunday, may not have collected many showbiz laurels, but his work shaped the comedians who came along after him. A black satirist who gave white audiences a deeper feel for the nation’s shameful racial history, Mr. Gregory was a national sensation in the early 1960s. Traffic and a run on Moon Pies were anticipated in some places as Americans prepared for Monday’s eclipse, the first to move coast to coast in nearly a century. Top police officials said that none of the 12 members of a cell behind the attacks had previous links to terrorism. While Guam’s fate may be decided by distant world leaders, its future lies in much younger, more local hands. Here’s what some of them have to say. Ms. Jones does not play any recurring political characters on “Saturday Night Live.” That didn’t stop her from receiving an Emmy nomination. An expanding number of organizations that had planned to hold galas at the president’s Florida resort are deciding to raise money elsewhere. With “Logan Lucky,” Steven Soderbergh set out to prove that studios are too stuck in their marketing ways. His experiment fizzled, but he vowed to try again. The South African government said it had granted diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe’s first lady, who was accused of beating up a model in a luxury hotel. “Cultural Revolution Selfies,” a new book by Wang Qiuhang, includes subversive images, taken during China’s Cultural Revolution, of the photographer himself. A photographer spent a couple of Sundays roaming the streets in Brooklyn and Harlem searching for finely dressed churchgoers. Sunday’s thrilling episode was largely about the various players learning the scale of their adversaries. More Recent Articles |
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