To the Editor: Re “Trump Tax Figures Show a Decade of Huge Losses” (front page, May 8): Thanks for continuing to investigate President Trump’s tax returns and working to compensate for his fearful refusal to share important information with the American people. The details you have uncovered continue to demonstrate that his stated reasons for […]

With the new Canadian Elite Basketball League about to tip off, chief executive officer Mike Morreale is brimming with the same energy he used to have before playing a big CFL game. Related Oregon’s MiKyle McIntosh Hamilton’s 1st pick in inaugural Canadian Elite Basketball League draft Professional basketball returning to Edmonton in 2019 Saskatoon joins […]

Most nights, my dog River sleeps in my bed. He is a red heeler, although his speckled coat is closer to an auburn-bronze than any shade that could be earnestly called “red.” Before I fall asleep, he jumps onto the comforter and curls up into a furry crescent moon next to me, nuzzling his rust-colored […]

According to pollsters and political reporters, a dispiriting dynamic has taken hold of the early stages of the Democratic presidential primary: Voters are discounting female candidates as unelectable. As Amber Phillips explained in The Washington Post, Democratic voters say that while they themselves may support Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and other women who are running […]

Turkey’s High Electoral Council has ordered a rerun of Istanbul’s mayoral election, which the candidate from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party narrowly lost last month. Since the vote, the Turkish strongman had kept complaining that the victory of an opposition candidate had been a result of irregularities or outright “theft at the […]

Since coming to power in 2014, Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, has assiduously centralized and personalized power. His critics often refer to his term in office as an “undeclared emergency.” The phrase evokes comparison with the period between June 1975 and March 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi suspended constitutional rights and imposed […]

The political media has been consumed with former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign kickoff, but something else has been going on in presidential politics largely unnoticed. The Mountain West, long a second (or third) thought to the favorite-son, vote-rich Rust Belt states, is stepping, however lightly, into the limelight. Several Mountain West Democrats have jumped […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning, We begin today with a major Times investigation into President Trump’s finances during his business career. We’re also covering Iran’s partial withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and a deadly school shooting in Colorado. A decade of red ink for Donald Trump Mr. […]

(Reuters) – Singapore-based ride-hailing company Grab is weighing a spinoff of its payments and financial services business, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing executives and investors. The startup may raise capital for the two businesses separately in order to spin off one or both of them at a later date, the paper said. Investors, […]

Fine Gael has been in Government for eight years. During that time access to secure and affordable accommodation has become increasingly out of reach for tens of thousands of people. House prices and rents have soared. Construction of new homes by councils and the private sector has been glacial in pace. Thousands of properties are […]