JULY 20, 2018
The Justice Department is investigating the involvement of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, in paying women to tamp down embarrassing news stories about Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. - Jeenah Moon/Reuters
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election...
JULY 18, 2018
Brief Scorecard: England 260 for 2 (Root 100*, Morgan 88*) beat India 256 for 8 (Kohli 71, Dhawan 44, Willey 3-40, Rashid 3-49) by eight wickets
Cricket - England v India - Third One Day International - Emerald Headingley, Headingley, Britain - July 17, 2018 England's Eoin Morgan and team mates celebrate winning the series with the trophy...
JULY 16, 2018
France's Antoine Griezmann celebrates winning the World Cup - REUTERS/Darren Staples
It was a final that had everything Russia 2018 has been celebrated for, everything it has enthralled us with, except one key ultimately decisive factor: a surprise. France football lifted their second World Cup 2018 trophy because Croatia football just couldn’t lift themselves that bit further, that...
JULY 15, 2018
Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, and his leadership team scored lower than the previous director, James B. Comey, and his team did last year in an internal survey, undercutting a rationale given by President Trump for firing Mr. Comey. - Mark Wilson/Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One year after President Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James B....
JULY 15, 2018
GARDEN CITY, Ind. — Vice President Mike Pence turns nostalgic when he talks about growing up in small-town Columbus, Indiana, where his father helped build a Midwestern empire of more than 200 gas stations that provided an upbringing on the "front row of the American dream."
The collapse of Kiel Bros. Oil Co. in 2004 was widely publicized....
JULY 15, 2018
Theresa May was appearing on the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show. - Rex/Shutterstock
Theresa May has revealed that Donald Trump advised her to “sue the European Union” rather than negotiate with the 27-country bloc, in a private conversation that the US president referred to during his visit to the UK on Friday.
The prime minister was asked on...
JULY 15, 2018
An Indian petrol pump attendant serves a customer at a Petrol station in Kolkata on January 31, 2018. - Getty
India, the world’s fastest growing oil consumer, is bucking an emerging market trend of populist measures to curb surging oil prices.
While governments in Indonesia, Brazil and elsewhere are cutting or freezing prices, India is standing its ground on...
JULY 14, 2018
Brief Scorecard: Sri Lanka 287 (Karunaratne 158*, Rabada 4-50, Shamsi 3-91) & 190 (Karunaratne 60, Maharaj 4-58, Rabada 3-44) beat South Africa 126 (du Plessis 49, Dilruwan 4-46, Lakmal 3-21) & 73 (Philander 22, Dilruwan 6-32, Herath 3-38) by 278 runs
July 14, 2018: Sri Lanka v South Africa, 1st Test, 3rd day, Galle Dilruwan Perera ripped through...
JULY 14, 2018
The government agency that handles US citizenship applications has been using newly digitized fingerprints to investigate cases of fraud since the beginning of 2017. So far, one person’s citizenship has been revoked.
Davinder Singh came to the US on a fall day in 1991.
He left India, his home country, and arrived at San Francisco International Airport without any...
JULY 14, 2018
Thursday was a special day for Pluto. On July 12, the dwarf planet crossed the plane of the solar system for only the second time since its discovery. It will be another 161 years before it does so again. The opportunity provides scientists a unique chance to look at Pluto using telescopes from Earth.
Today, Pluto is crossing...
