How Rudy Giuliani Turned Into Trump's Clown  —  The former mayor's theatrical, combative style of politics anticipated—and perfectly aligns with—the President's.  —  Although it has been almost a generation since Rudolph Giuliani was the mayor of New York, there is one place in the city …

Brazil museum fire: ‘incalculable’ loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted  —  The Museu Nacional houses artefacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil  —  Play Video  —  Brazil's oldest and most important historical and scientific museum has been consumed by fire …

Trump's ‘majority’ is fake  —  likes to complain about “Fake News.”  —  So, here's some very real news for him:  —  Republican control of Capitol Hill and the White House is based on a “fake majority.”  —  “A majority of the Senate now represents just 18 percent of the nation's population …

Media Obituaries Didn't Give Us ‘The Full McCain’  —  The sugary praise, often from former critics, does his memory no favors.  —  The past week has featured so much extravagant praise of John McCain that Jill Abramson, the former editor of the New York Times, had to admit …

The ‘Trump effect’  —  How a norm-scrambling presidency and a viral video are changing the way black and white residents in Summerville, S.C., talk about race  —  Before he heard from neighbors about the confrontation at his subdivision swimming pool, Jovan Hyman saw a shaky video of it online, where it was quickly going viral.

Steve Bannon Headlines New Yorker Festival  —  Readers of The New Yorker prize the magazine for its wide-ranging collection of perspectives.  From Oct. 5 to 7, The New Yorker Festival, now in its 19th year, will bring some of these voices to venues around New York City.

Scoop: How Omarosa secretly taped her victims  —  Omarosa taped nearly every conversation she had while working in the White House, including ones with “all of the Trumps,” a source who watched her make many of the tapes tells Axios.  Omarosa did this with a personal phone, almost always on record mode.

Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration  —  The Trump administration is using the country's vast and nearly opaque immigration bureaucracy to constrict the flow of foreign workers into the United States by throwing up new roadblocks to limit legal arrivals.

Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar over secrets act  —  A court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for violating a state secrets act while investigating violence against the Rohingya minority.  —  Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, nationals of Myanmar …

Trump attacks union leader on Labor Day  —  President Donald Trump started his Labor Day with an attack on a top union leader, lashing out after criticism from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.  —  Trump tweeted Monday that Trumka “represented his union poorly on television this weekend.”

Putin Gets Love From New State TV Show as Poll Ratings Slide  —  Russian state television started a new weekly show devoted to Vladimir Putin, lauding the president's leadership qualities, physical energy and attentiveness to public needs.  —  The first hour-long episode of “Moscow.  Kremlin.

Scoop: Confident Dems plan detailed 2019 agenda  —  Like the quiet planning by presidential candidates for their hoped-for transition to office, House Democrats are already choreographing their opening moves if — as looks likely — they get the gavel back in the midterm elections.

Fox News' Jeanine Pirro Says Trump Is Innocent and Has Been Framed  —  Fox News' Jeanine Pirro, one of Donald Trump's most impassioned supporters, said on Sunday that Trump is being framed by establishment forces in Washington, D.C.  —  The Hill reported that during an interview aired on AM 970 New York …

Congress waits, waits, waits for Sally Yates documents  —  Obama appointee Sally Yates was acting attorney general under President Trump for just 10 days — from Jan. 20, 2017 until Jan. 30, 2017 — but by any measure they were consequential days.  Even now, two issues from Yates' brief tenure …

The Shaming of Geoffrey Owens and the Inability to See Actors as Laborers, Too  —  Not long ago, I was visiting the set of a popular TV show for a story and recognized an actor who was there shooting a guest spot.  I remembered Geoffrey Owens not from “The Cosby Show,” on which he played Elvin Tibideaux …

Trump blasted ‘Lyin’ Ted' Cruz again and again.  Activists want to remind Texans with a billboard.  —  Deep in the heart of Texas, a billboard truck will soon hit the road with a curated list of President Trump's tweets — attacks on Sen. Ted Cruz, a former political foe.

How Trump Betrays ‘Forgotten’ Americans  —  From the Supreme Court to labor organizing rules, the president undermines workers' greatest champions  —  Mr. Greenhouse is a former labor and workplace reporter for the Times.  —  Donald Trump promotes himself as a friend of “forgotten” …

GOP strategists fear candidates will get steamrolled in midterms: They only know how to ‘run against Obama’  —  GOP strategists and campaign managers are looking on with dismay at the upcoming midterm elections, believing their candidates — particularly the incumbents …