Barr's appearance at House hearing still up in the air because of dispute with Democrats  —  (CNN)Attorney General William Barr has warned Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee he won't show up to this week's highly anticipated hearing if they stick to the format the chairman has proposed …

Trump Repeats a False Claim That Doctors ‘Execute’ Newborns  —  The president has made “executing babies” part of his refrain on abortion, but the evidence does not back him up.  —  WHAT TRUMP SAID … President Trump revived on Saturday night what is fast becoming a standard, and inaccurate …

Richard Lugar, six-term senator and leading voice on foreign policy, dies at 87  —  Richard G. Lugar, a six-term Indiana senator who became one of the foremost voices on U.S. foreign policy — championing efforts to end apartheid in South Africa, oust Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos …

Ignore The Poway Synagogue Shooter's Manifesto: Pay Attention To 8chan's /pol/ Board  —  On April 27, 2019, at around 11:30 a.m. local time, a young man with a semi-automatic rifle walked into the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in Poway, California.  He opened fire, killing one worshipper and wounding three others.

A Despicable Cartoon in The Times  —  The paper of record needs to reflect deeply on how it came to publish anti-Semitic propaganda.  —  As prejudices go, anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but on Thursday the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it.

Sally Yates: If Trump weren't president, he would be indicted on obstruction  —  Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said on “Meet the Press” Sunday that if Trump were not president, he would likely be indicted for obstructing justice in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

The 2020 election isn't going to be close  —  The 2020 election isn't going to be close.  —  The first-quarter gross domestic product growth rate of 3.2 percent sets up the first reality that will be noted in November 2020 because it telegraphs where the economy will be then: not in recession.

Trump Calls Ex-FBI Officials ‘Scum,’ Takes Credit For ‘Sick’ Immigrant Plan At Rally  —  The president ranted for nearly 90 minutes in Wisconsin on the same night as the White House Correspondents' Dinner.  —  President Donald Trump disparaged former FBI and Justice Department officials …

If Trump Weren't President, He Would Already Be Charged  —  The Mueller Report contains a case against the president as strong as many we saw working as federal prosecutors.  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report is 448 pages long, full of shocking conduct and detail …

Scoop: Trump's $2 trillion spending dream  —  At last month's St. Patrick's Day lunch in the Capitol, President Trump told Richard Neal, the powerful Democratic chairman of the House's tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, that he wants to spend close to $2 trillion on infrastructure …

Biden and Obama's ‘Odd Couple’ Relationship Aged Into Family Ties  —  Four years ago, Barack Obama gently discouraged him from running for president, but Joseph R. Biden Jr. is back and presenting himself as Mr. Obama's natural heir.  —  WASHINGTON — Barack Obama did not think Joseph R. Biden Jr …

Journalists can't ignore hacked data meant to disrupt elections.  But here's what they can do.  —  The phrase in the New York Times story hit a lot of readers — and a lot of journalists — like a slap across the face.  —  Major news organizations functioned during the 2016 presidential campaign as …

Joe Biden On Anita Hill In 1998: ‘She Was Lying’  —  It's true that Joe Biden did his best to help Anita Hill, including concealing witnesses who would have been a disaster under examination.  But even he admitted to his colleague that Hill was lying.  —  Former vice president Joe Biden repeatedly …

House Democrats Feel Little Pressure From Voters to Impeach Trump  —  IRVINE, Calif. — The hundred-odd students who gathered on the hilltop campus of Concordia University here on a sunny Thursday morning had a lot of questions for Representative Katie Porter on abortion, immigration, voting rights and the 2020 primary races.

Nominate a woman?  Some Democratic women aren't so sure  —  TIPTON, Iowa (AP) — Iowa voters sent a record number of women to the Legislature during last year's midterms.  Women won two of the state's most competitive U.S. House races, and a woman was elected governor for the first time.

Bolton confirms U.S. signed document to pay North Korea for Otto Warmbier  —  National security adviser John Bolton confirmed on “Fox News Sunday” that a Trump administration official signed a document pledging to pay North Korea a $2 million hospital bill to release Otto Warmbier, but that no money was ultimately transferred.

In Pennsylvania, Joe Biden Finds Support Where He Most Needs It  —  PITTSBURGH — The case for Joseph R. Biden Jr. has always come down to Pennsylvania.  —  It is not just that the former vice president, who jumped into the presidential race last week, is a native son of a state that is a 2020 must-win for Democrats.