This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. Democrats have bungled the Russia investigation since taking control of the House this year. The investigation has persuaded virtually nobody who wasn’t already persuaded that President Trump is unfit for office — and also frustrated many people […]

An extremely rare baby zebra with spots has been spotted in Kenya. In fact, it was pretty hard to miss with its black coat and white polka-dot spots. Photographer Frank Liu captured footage of the unusual plains zebra foal last week while he was searching for rhinos in Kenya‘s Maasai Mara National Reserve. A rare […]

Tens of thousands of young people around the globe are expected to go on strike on Friday to demand action on the climate crisis. They know that if we don’t solve this crisis now, we may soon have an unlivable climate. And they refuse to accept the idea that our politicians won’t do anything about […]

ATHENS (Reuters) – Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe, a unit of U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group (BX.N), agreed to buy five hotels in Greece from Louis Group in a deal valued at 178.6 million euros ($197 million), the firm said on Friday. Greece has seen an upsurge in tourism in recent years. A record […]

ATHENS (Reuters) – Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe, a unit of U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group (BX.N), agreed to buy five hotels in Greece from Louis Group in a deal valued at 178.6 million euros ($197 million), the firm said on Friday. Greece has seen an upsurge in tourism in recent years. A record […]

Justin Trudeau’s re-election bid is now in freefall – and he has no one to blame but himself. For a week, his Liberal Party has released old videos and social media comments made by opposition candidates related to abortion and homophobia in a smear campaign. Apologies from the opposition were forthcoming. The Liberals have also […]

An 11-year-old girl and her father became hometown heroes with nothing but a loaf of bread and a couple cans of squash. An armed man, masked and wearing a green hoodie, entered an Express Supermarket in Worthing, England, on Monday evening around 10 p.m. Sussex Police released CCTV footage along with details of the attempted […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Wind energy project developer PNE AG has attracted interest from private equity and infrastructure investors following a recent takeover approach by a Morgan Stanley fund, two people familiar with the matter said. PNE AG will give potential suitors access to its data room, the people said. The group, which has a market […]

I read a piece recently concerning Irish farming and the struggle Irish farmers now face, and I couldn’t help but be moved by what was said. What some fail to see is beef farmers are fighting for a fair price – a fair price for a quality meat produced with passion and love, because without […]

To the Editor: David Axelrod offers a strategy, “Let Trump Destroy Trump” (Op-Ed, Sept. 12), but his discussion was short on specific tactics that the Democratic Party can use. One such tactic would be to refuse to debate President Trump. We live in a time when longstanding norms have been smashed or set aside at […]