Former Trump aide Rick Gates to plead guilty; agrees to testify against Manafort, sources say … A former top aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign will plead guilty to fraud-related charges within days - and has made clear to prosecutors that he would testify against Paul J. Manafort Jr. …

Trump's Evolution From Relief to Fury Over the Russia Indictment  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump began the weekend believing that something good had just happened to him.  An indictment leveled against 13 Russians for interfering with the 2016 election had not accused him or anyone around him of wrongdoing.

Trump fumes about Russia investigation as nation mourns  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As the nation mourned, President Donald Trump kept largely silent about the Florida school shooting victims and the escalating gun control debate, instead raging at the FBI for what he perceived …

Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now  —  Our democracy is in serious danger.  —  President Trump is either totally compromised by the Russians or is a towering fool, or both, but either way he has shown himself unwilling or unable to defend America against a Russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy.

Oprah follows up with the partisan voters in Michigan  —  Last fall, Oprah Winfrey spoke with 14 Michigan voters, seven of whom voted for Donald Trump.  Winfrey sat down with the voters again to get their thoughts on Trump's first year in office  —  Oprah Winfrey

Do You Believe Her Now?  —  With new evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it's time to talk seriously about impeachment.  —  Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas testifying before the Senate in 1991.  Paul Hosefros/The New York Times/Redux (Hill); Jose R. Lopez/The New York Times/Redux (Rhomas)

“The Canaries Are Dying”: How Trump Is Making Republicans Pick Their 2018 Poison  —  Caught between the president's rabid, loyal base and suburban women, Republican candidates may not survive a blue wave election.  —  “These races are like canaries in the coal mine,” Steve Israel …

Tools of Trump's Fixer: Payouts, Intimidation and the Tabloids  —  As accounts of past sexual indiscretions threatened to surface during Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign, the job of stifling potentially damaging stories fell to his longtime lawyer and all-around fixer, Michael D. Cohen.

Scoop: Skirmish in Beijing over the nuclear football  —  On Thursday Nov. 9, when President Trump and his team visited Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Chief of Staff John Kelly and a U.S. Secret Service agent skirmished with Chinese security officials over the nuclear football.

Russian Curler Fails Drug Test, Authorities Explore Sabotage Possibility  —  Aleksandr Krushelnitckii, who won a bronze medal in mixed doubles with his wife last week, has tested positive for a high dose of meldonium, the same medication that Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova was suspended in 2016 for using

Trump is ignoring the worst attack on America since 9/11  —  Imagine if, after 9/11, the president had said that the World Trade Center and Pentagon could have been attacked by “China” or “lots of other people.”  Imagine if he had dismissed claims of al-Qaeda's responsibility as a “hoax” …

Conservatives urge Trump to grant pardons in Russia probe  —  As special counsel Robert Mueller builds his case, relatives of former national security adviser Michael Flynn are among those pressing the president to use his unique legal power and ‘put these defendants out of their misery.’

Dem senator warns Mueller against issuing Russia report near 2018 election  —  Jr. (D-Pa.) on Sunday warned special counsel Robert Mueller  —  against issuing a report on his findings in the ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election near the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.