Cohen to Testify That Trump Engaged in Criminal Conduct While in Office  —  Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, will for the first time publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office related to a hush-money payment to a porn star, a person familiar with his planned testimony before Congress said.

U.S. Cyber Command operation disrupted Internet access of Russian troll factory on day of 2018 midterms  —  The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said …

Mueller scores big win as court rejects challenge to his appointment  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller scored one of the biggest legal wins of his tenure on Tuesday, as a federal appeals court rejected claims that his appointment was unconstitutional.  —  In a unanimous ruling …

Trump bets it all on friendship with Kim  —  Trump: Kim Jong Un and I see eye to eye  —  Hanoi (CNN)President Donald Trump was looking to flatter his new friend in Singapore when he struck upon an unusual compliment.  —  He had known plenty of people who had grown up wealthy and whose families …

Ivanka Trump challenges Ocasio-Cortez platform, says Americans don't want ‘guaranteed minimum’  —  Ivanka Trump, President Trump's daughter and a White House senior adviser, lauded her father's economy and said the majority of Americans ideologically believe differently than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …

I've reported on Bernie Sanders for years.  A free press won't give him what he wants.  —  Paul Heintz is a staff writer for and political editor of Seven Days, a Vermont newsweekly.  —  In the fall of 1988, Bernie Sanders charged up the stairs of a Montpelier bar to the Vermont offices …

This 21-year-old tweeted lies about Robert Mueller and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  Now, he's eyeing the 2020 election  —  COSTA MESA, Calif. - A false claim bubbled up from the internet last month that Sen. Kamala Harris, the recently announced presidential candidate, wasn't eligible for election …

Poll: How does the public think journalism happens?  —  For decades, we've known that Americans don't trust the press.  What we haven't known is how people view the makings of journalism, from the use of fact checkers and anonymous sources to the question of whether money skews journalistic decision-making.

HHS docs show thousands of alleged incidents of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors in custody  —  Washington (CNN)The Department of Health and Human Services received more than 4,500 complaints of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors from 2014-2018, according to internal agency …

Exclusive: Kamala Harris Calls for Decriminalization of Sex Work, Unequivocally Calls Trump a Racist and Wants Reparations (Sort of)  —  U.S Sen. Kamala Harris, a frontrunner in the burgeoning 2020 race for the Democratic nomination for president, is addressing criticisms of her criminal justice record and …

What the Failure of the Sasse Bill Says About Democrats  —  It's not good.  —  On Monday evening, nearly every Democrat in the Senate voted to block passage of Sen. Ben Sasse's Born Alive Infant Survivors Act.  The bill's provisions were simple: In the event that an abortionist botched a late-term job …

The popular vote could decide the 2020 presidential election, if these states get their way  —  Colorado is set to become the latest member of a group of states banding together to bypass the electoral college system.  —  The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact …

House panel OKs subpoena over family separations at border  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee voted Tuesday to subpoena Trump administration officials over family separations at the southern border, the first issued in the new Congress as Democrats have promised to hold the administration aggressively to count.

The Era of Limited Government Is Over  —  Why American conservatism after Trump may learn to like the state.  —  Since conservatism became a movement in the 1950s, the American right has understood itself to be defending not just the written American Constitution but an unwritten one as well …

Nearly 40 percent of Sanders 2020 donors so far appear to be new supporters: report  —  Almost 40 percent of donors to Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign so far have used an email address that was never previously used to give to a Sanders campaign, The New York Times reported Monday.

The GOP Just Used Crocodile Tears About Anti-Semitism to Abet Mass Murder in Yemen  —  The government of Saudi Arabia has been bombing and starving the Middle East's poorest country for nearly four years now.  As of December 2018, an estimated 85,000 children under 5 years old had died …

If a Wealth Tax is Such a Good Idea, Why Did Europe Kill Theirs?  —  NOTE: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter.  You can sign up here.  —  In late January, Senator Elizabeth Warren, who's in the race to become president in 2020, added a new kind of tax to the American conversation …