"I have no clue how I didn't catch it—and neither did my mom," the bride-to-be Jennifer Meyer, from Minnesota, told Newsweek.

Can a country still call itself an ally of America if America is threatening to annex part of its territory? Such a question might once have seemed ripe for a Gitane-puffing philosophe to ponder ...

Mr. Schiff on Thursday turned down an invitation to accompany the president ... or I’m a useful foil for him at rallies, or both.” I couldn’t say which was the dominant impulse.