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Protesters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post). Donald Trump might seem like a madman. But it turns out that might be a good thing — at least for the moment.

Not since Richard Nixon has a president looked to behaving like a “madman” as a source of advantage. Caprice is bolstered by pragmatism. Unlike most peacemakers, Mr Trump is blithely ...

FIRST ON FOX: The 44-year-old man charged with trying to smuggle a machete and other knives into the U.S. Capitol on the same day President-elect Donald Trump went to pay his respects as late ...

During his lifetime, he was labelled “a sensationalist, a contrarian, an irrationalist, an egomaniac, a fake, a buffoon, a nihilist, a genius, a fascist, a madman”. His life invites us to ...

The crude stick-figure diagram, sketched in blue ink, details how North Korean soldiers deployed to support Russia in the Ukraine war should respond to the approach of a Ukrainian drone. One ...

The diary showing signs of brainwashing are among possessions retrieved from the bodies of troops sent 7,000 miles from their homeland to shore up Vladimir Putin’s attempt to claw back ground ...

Guide your students through the Gallipoli campaign from the perspective of an everyday Anzac, following day-by-day the diary of H.V. Reynolds. An Australian from Sebastopol, Victoria, Reynolds ...

A subway maniac with 87 prior arrests was just busted for two transit stabbings — carrying the “large knife’’ he allegedly used in the violence, police and sources said Sunday. Jamar Banks ...

Taking pictures of standpipes, a dancer on the subway in Brooklyn and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Dear Diary: I have been to New York City to visit ...