How influential would Elizabeth Warren be in a Clinton Administration? Maybe it is too early for that kind of talk, but with Trump still slumping in the polls, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats might be forgiven for thinking ahead to November 9th and down the ballot to Senate and House races. Simon Carswell reports.

They've been celebrating the 60th anniversary of a famous revolt against Soviet control in Budapest this weekend. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban unfavourably compares Brussels today with the Kremlin then. Daniel McLaughlin reports.

And Irish Times food critic Catherine Cleary, whose recent review of a pricey New York eatery did not pass unremarked-upon in The Irish Times' letters pages, describes what it is like to visit a restaurant with three Michelin Stars and the challenge that ranking system presents to restauranteurs.