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Donald Trump, the criminally convicted ex-president, adjudicated rapist, and documented pathological liar, used the word “horrible” in talking about Milwaukee during a closed-door meeting on June 13 with GOP congressmen. The city will host the Republican National Convention, where Trump will accept the Republican nomination next month. The comment, verified by several people in the room who spoke afterward, was first reported by Punchbowl News while the meeting was in progress. The disparaging comment immediately drew disagreements from those there about what Trump meant. Several congressmen who support Trump and attended the meeting argued he was referring to the...

Inside his Delaware headquarters, President Joe Biden’s campaign is signaling it will incorporate Donald Trump’s recent felony conviction as a core element of the Democratic incumbent’s reelection message. But in nearby battleground Pennsylvania, a state that could decide control of Congress and the presidency this fall, Democrats are far from certain that Trump’s criminal record matters to voters at all. “It’ll have an effect, but a fairly small effect,” former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said of Trump’s recent 34 felony convictions in the New York hush money case. “I don’t think we can count on it. We’ve got to...

Mammoth South Korean loudspeakers blaring BTS music. Large North Korean balloons carrying manure, cigarette butts and waste batteries. Small South Korean civilian leaflets slamming North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Day after day, the Cold War-style yet bizarre campaigns continue at the heavily fortified border of the rivals who have not had any serious talks for years. “At this point, both Koreas are trying to pressure and deter each other with politically symbolic actions,” Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said. “The problem is that neither side wants to be seen as backing down, and tensions...