As impeachment talk escalates, Pelosi says Trump is engaged in a ‘cover-up’  —  The House speaker's comments come as calls by Democrats to open an impeachment inquiry grow louder.  —  WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is engaged …

Confidential draft IRS memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless president invokes executive privilege  —  A confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president takes the rare step of asserting executive privilege …

EVMS probe could not determine whether Northam was in racist photo, but school knew about it for years  —  A photo from Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook shows two people, one in blackface and one in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood.  A half-page from the 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook …

Nevada Poised To Become 15th State To Ditch Electoral College  —  President Hillary Clinton?  —  That would have been the result of the 2016 presidential election — if the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact were in effect.  —  With a state Senate vote Tuesday …

Schiff cancels ‘enforcement’ meeting after Justice Department offers to share Mueller documents  —  Barr makes Dems an offer to stave off ‘enforcement action’  —  Washington (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff is scrapping a Wednesday morning meeting intended to take an …

How ‘The View’ Became the Most Important Political TV Show in America  —  Not long ago, politicians didn't take the daytime talk show seriously.  Now it's an essential campaign stop for Democrats and Republicans alike.  —  On a weekday in March, less than two months before his three-year sentence …

Trump's Golf Costs: $102 Million And Counting, With Taxpayers Picking Up The Tab  —  Trump promised never to golf.  Instead, he's spent more than twice as many days golfing as Obama at the same point, costing taxpayers over three times as much.  —  Donald Trump's golf habit has already cost taxpayers …

Officials Dispute Mike Pompeo's Claim That Iran Is Collaborating With Al Qaeda  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's claim that Iran and Al Qaeda are collaborating is at best an exaggeration that is not supported by any available information, U.S. intelligence officers and officials with the State and Defense Department tell TIME.

Rats Are Taking Over New York City  —  Gentrifying neighborhoods are a key reason behind the vermin outbreak, which extends beyond New York — Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles are also confronting issues.  —  So many rats regularly lurk on a sidewalk in Brooklyn that it is the humans who avoid the rats, not the other way around.

Senior military officers rebel against Trump plan to pardon troops accused of war crimes … Current and former military officers urged the White House not to pardon service members and security contractors implicated in war crimes, warning that forgiving their offenses would send a dangerous signal …

U.S. Wall Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence  —  U.S. Customs and Border Protection has put up just 1.7 miles of fencing with the $1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for President Donald Trump's wall along the Mexican border, a federal judge was told.

Attorney General Barr puts former intel bosses on notice  —  Things seem to be moving quickly now.  It has been a remarkable few weeks in American history.  Momentum is building toward uncovering the distasteful possibility that the targeting of a U.S. presidential campaign was actually …

Michael Cohen Filings Show 950 Messages With Russian Oligarch's Cousin  —  President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, exchanged more than 230 phone calls and 950 text messages over eight months with the chief executive of a U.S. money-management firm with ties to a Russian oligarch …

The Democrats' 100-year flood  —  The midterm elections may have been a sign of what's ahead for the 2020 presidential election: experts say the voter turnout could be the highest in a century.  —  The big picture: According to Michael McDonald, an elections expert at the University of Florida …

“I Flew Too Close to the Sun.  No Question.  Icarus”: Inside the Epic Fall of Michael Avenatti  —  Stormy Daniels's former attorney is a hyper-aggressive narcissist with shadows in his past—which made him a perfect adversary for Donald Trump.  For a few months, the #Resistance hero even thought he could be president.

Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are parasites.  Maybe they should disappear: Senator  —  Facebook is an addictive digital drug that hurts its users.  Researchers even suspect social media contributed to a recent surge in attempted suicide.  —  CONNECT  —  Social media consumers …

John Walker Lindh, Known as the ‘American Taliban,’ Is Set to Leave Federal Prison This Week  —  WASHINGTON — He was the “American Taliban” captured during the invasion of Afghanistan in the fall of 2001.  Pictures showed him as a gaunt, filthy 20-year-old held in the aftermath of a prison uprising …

Amash challenger scrubs campaign website of bio information  —  The state lawmaker who plans to challenge West Michigan U.S. Rep. Justin Amash in the Republican primary has been accused of misrepresenting how his college education was funded.  —  State Rep. Jim Lower, R-Greenville …