Microsoft’s cloud service has been hit by another outage, weeks after an IT failure in the company’s services ground the world to a halt. In a post on X, Cambridge Water said some of its services were down this afternoon. “Due to worldwide issues with Microsoft Azure, a problem with our website is affecting several services including MyAccount and PayNow,” ...

An update: Project 2025 just announced that it was going to stop creating policies, and that its director, a former Trump administration official, was leaving, The Washington Post’s Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey report. Trump campaign, they report, is “furious” at the way Project 2025 has linked itself to Trump and how it has been received in the media. It’s ...

Anita Dunn, a top adviser to President Biden and architect of his 2020 campaign, will leave the White House next week to advise the largest super PAC supporting Vice President Harris. The decision, which has long been discussed as a possibility inside Biden’s inner circle, marks the first major exit from Biden’s core team since he decided to step aside ...

U.S. forces carried out an airstrike in Iraq on Tuesday night, targeting unspecified “combatants” attempting to launch a one-way attack drone, officials said. The incident followed attacks on American positions in Iraq and Syria in recent days, officials said, ending what had been months of relative calm between U.S. forces and militias there that are supported by Iran. U.S. officials ...

In June, Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona was the only Senate Democrat to stand alongside President Biden as he announced a new executive order aimed at cracking down on asylum seekers. “I’m happy to be here today, and what I hope is that we will have a safer situation and operational control over our southern border,” Kelly told reporters outside ...

ATLANTA — Vice President Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, held a raucous rally here Tuesday night and challenged Republican Donald Trump to debate her, as both the Harris and Trump campaigns are refocusing attention on this pivotal Southern state amid a political map that could be reshaped by newfound Democratic energy. Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance ...

Vice President Harris is the only candidate who has qualified for the virtual roll call vote to officially select the Democratic presidential nominee. Electronic voting for the nearly 4,000 Democratic delegates will begin Thursday at 9 a.m. and end Monday at 6 p.m. Harris needs 1,976 votes to secure the nomination and is expected to far surpass that number. The ...

Fred Trump III kept silent for years about his uncle, former president Donald Trump. And when his sister, Mary L. Trump, wrote a 2020 bestseller calling their uncle “the world’s most dangerous man,” he called the book “a breach of trust and a violation of our privacy,” adding that “We consider our family matters to be private.” Yet Tuesday marked ...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested that Vice President Harris wouldn’t be able to stand up to world leaders because of her appearance, adding that he didn’t want to spell it out but viewers would know what he meant. “She’ll be like a play toy,” Trump — who has a history of using sexist attacks and stereotypes in campaigns against ...

The scene in the Florida parking lot shocked even those who planned it. Hundreds of golf carts filed in Saturday, decked out in American flags; “Harris for President” posters; and red, white and blue streamers. Their drivers cheered, honked their horns and rode around town for hours, supporting Vice President Harris’s presidential bid for a parade in The Villages, a ...