Washington

Scott Gilmore: The ranks of his official friends are thinning. Increasingly its Putin giving Trump what he really craves: validation and assurance.

The Safe Third Country Agreement is broken. But it would be easy to get rid of if Trump actually understood the arrangement.

John McCain, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan were among prominent Republicans who distanced themselves from Trump’s press conference with Putin

Paul Wells: U.S. conservatives have always believed there can be no moral equivalence between democrats and authoritarians. Those days are over.

Scott Gilmore: After Helsinki, America is in unchartered waters, facing the possibility that its president is no longer defending America

It’s a possibility on everyone’s mind. The big question now is: how would his rabid, gun-owning supporters react to an attack on their leader?

Peter Strzok parried the haymakers thrown by House Republicans, reducing his congressional inquisition to slapstick

Paul Wells: Democracy and openness are in decline, and the U.S. president—not Canada—is on the winning side

Allen Abel in Washington: As if trade wars, the Russians and North Korea were not enough to juggle, a torn America begins another battle

As one key U.S. Supreme Court justice retires this summer, the future of all manner of issues — and abortion rights in particular — have been called into question