Mexico’s veteran political chameleon, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, has died at the age of 89 ByMARIA VERZA Associated Press FILE – Porfirio Munoz Ledo, president of the Congress, looks at Mexico’s new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during the inaugural ceremony at the National Congress in Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018. Ledo´s family announced Sunday, … Read more
When central bankers line up almost daily to assert their commitment to fighting inflation, it makes me think of Thailand. Not the fine resorts and great food. The country’s untrumpeted success is seriously taming prices to the point where officials might want to think about easing up, lest the economy slows too much. Like the … Read more
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Cocaine being discovered in the White House isn’t the headline the Biden administration wanted coming out of the July 4 celebration − but here we are. Secret Service agents found traces of the illegal narcotic while President Joe Biden was away at Camp David for a retreat, and later confirmed it was in the West … Read more
Donald J. Trump attacked Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Friday over his support for farmers, saying his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination would be “a catastrophe” for the country’s agriculture industry. Mr. Trump claimed at a rally in Iowa that Mr. DeSantis would outsource American farming jobs overseas and oppose the federal … Read more
Maine has become the third state this year to pass a law tightening reporting requirements for public utilities funding political activities, such as lobbying and campaign advertising. Supporters say the millions of dollars being spent by electric utilities in a referendum effort this fall underscore the importance of added transparency. In recent years, Mainers have … Read more
Sadanand Dhume writes a biweekly column on India and South Asia for WSJ.com. He focuses on the region’s politics, economics and foreign policy. Mr. Dhume is also a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Previously he worked as the New Delhi bureau chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), and … Read more
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Donald Trump can be deposed in the lawsuit ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok brought against the Justice Department for his wrongful termination after the Russia investigation. In the lawsuit, Strzok alleges Trump’s political vendetta against him – whom Trump criticized in tweets – led to his wrongful termination, and that … Read more
The Justice Department has made public more about the significant photographic and video evidence they collected last summer from Mar-a-Lago after the Trump presidency, in a newly released version of the investigative record that supported the FBI search of the resort. While the details match much of what was included in last month’s indictment of … Read more
Politics in East New York are set to change. Longtime political figure Charles Barron lost his reelection bid on Wednesday for Council District 42. The city’s board of election showed this week that insurgent candidate Chris Banks holds an insurmountable lead with almost all the absentee ballots counted. What You Need To Know On Wednesday, … Read more