Politics

The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, told his top agents from around the country that he had been asked by President Trump to stay on the job running the federal government’s top law enforcement agency, The New York Times reports, according to people familiar with the matter.

The political fallout from this decision will make the news cycle buzz today, since Hillary Clinton, the mainstream media, and many Democrats blame Mr. Comey for her defeat, and it is not clear whether she would have kept him on had she won.

The latest diplomatic spat between the US and China erupted overnight, when China said on Tuesday it had "irrefutable" sovereignty over disputed islands in the South China Sea after White House spokesman Sean Spicer vowed to defend "international territories" in the strategic waterway. Spicer's first official comments on Monday signaled a sharp departure from years of cautious U.S. handling of China's assertive pursuit of territorial claims in Asia.

Sparking his latest confrontation with the media, mostly the NYT, CNN and WaPo, overnight president Trump told members of Congress on Monday in a private reception that he lost the popular vote in the election because millions of undocumented immigrants cast votes for his opponent.

Trump's claim, which much of the mainstream press has determined to be "fake news" despite reported evidence to the contrary, was first made by Trump before his election, and drew widespread criticism by the press overnight.

Britain’s most senior judges have ruled that prime minister Theresa May needs the approval of Parliament to trigger the Brexit process. The Supreme Court decided that MPs must be given a vote on triggering Article 50, the formal mechanism for leaving the EU. Did you really believe the people had spoken?