Pelosi tells Dems she wants to see Trump ‘in prison’  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi told senior Democrats that she'd like to see President Donald Trump “in prison” as she clashed with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler in a meeting on Tuesday night over whether to launch impeachment proceedings.

House Democrats To Make It Easier To Find Trump Aides In Contempt, Bring Them To Court  —  The House will also more forward with enforcing subpoenas against Attorney General William Barr and ex-White House counsel Don McGahn.  —  WASHINGTON — House Democrats are set to vote next week …

Democrats Learned the Wrong Lesson From Clinton's Impeachment  —  Democrats debating whether to impeach Donald Trump may be misreading the evidence from the last time the House tried to remove a president.  —  It's become conventional wisdom—not only among Democrats but also among many political analysts …

A Dutch Teenager's Death Was Wrongly Reported As “Legal Euthanasia” Across International Media.  Here's How They All Got It Wrong.  —  Inaccurate stories claiming the 17-year-old had been “legally euthanised” travelled so widely across the internet that even the pope appeared to tweet about it.

Police Commissioner Apologizes for Officers' Actions in Stonewall Rebellion  —  New York's police commissioner, James P. O'Neill, apologized on Thursday on behalf of the Police Department for officers' actions during the Stonewall riot, a seminal 1969 clash outside a Greenwich Village club …

Trump's catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste  —  The president and first lady have landed in Ireland.  They have left the pomp and pageantry of England.  Melania Trump has removed her Phillip Treacy hat.  The president is once again in a business suit and his too-long ties.

Who's in — and out — of the first Democratic debates  —  Barring a last-minute change, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will not make the stage.  —  A prominent governor running in the Democratic primary is at serious risk of getting shut out of the party's first presidential debates …

Impeach Trump.  But don't necessarily try him in the Senate.  —  Laurence H. Tribe is the University Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard and the coauthor, most recently, of “To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment.”  —  It is possible to argue that impeaching President Trump …

Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges  —  Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has fired his legal team as he awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian official, according to a new filing Thursday from his long-time attorneys.

U.S. commander says American forces face ‘imminent’ threat from Iran  —  Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie says he believes the Iranians or their proxies may orchestrate an attack at any moment.  —  BAGHDAD — The top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says he believes the Iranians …

Promoting based on potential: How The Atlantic is putting a lot more women in charge  —  It's not a shocker that a lot has changed at The Atlantic since it was founded all the way back in 1857.  Perhaps more surprising, though, is how much has changed there in just the last two and a half years.

Just Because You CAN Defend Steven Crowder Doesn't Mean You HAVE To  —  It's easy to stick up for someone's right to say something, anything.  But free speech is about more than owning the libs.  —  It may surprise you to learn that there is very little record of the Founding Fathers' debates …

Who Cares About the Supreme Court's ‘Legitimacy’?  —  Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.  —  In a rational world, the Supreme Court would hit the pause button on the pending census case …

Trump Delays D-Day Commemoration Start With Laura Ingraham Interview  —  The ceremonies commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day Thursday morning were set to start sharply at 11:00 AM local time, but actually started 15 minutes later than planned.  According to MSNBC White House reporter Hallie Jackson …

Deceased Strategist's Files Detail Republican Gerrymandering in North Carolina, Advocates Say  —  When the hard drives of a deceased Republican strategist revealed new evidence last week about the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census …

Senators Ask Federal Reserve to Review Trump's Deutsche Bank Transactions  —  A group of Democratic senators want top officials at the Federal Reserve to examine whether Deutsche Bank complied with anti-money-laundering and other laws after bank employees flagged transactions tied to President Trump as potentially suspicious.

A wealthy Iraqi sheikh who urges a hard-line U.S. approach to Iran spent 26 nights at Trump's D.C. hotel  —  In July, a wealthy Iraqi sheikh named Nahro al-Kasnazan wrote letters to national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging them to forge closer ties …

Craig Newmark, New Friend to Journalism, Gives $6 Million to Consumer Reports  —  An entrepreneur who made a fortune thanks to his digital disruption of the newspaper industry has joined forces with a fearsome nonprofit watchdog publication that is expanding its coverage of the tech industry.

How a watchdog whitewashed its oversight of FEMA's disaster response with ‘feel good’ reports  —  After catastrophic floodwaters submerged wide stretches of southern Louisiana in 2016, displaced homeowners and officials criticized the federal recovery effort as dangerously slow, leaving thousands of people homeless for months.

Trumpworld Lobbyists Cut Check to Giuliani's Ukraine ‘Investigator’  —  A payment to Global Energy Producers' Lev Parnas was revealed in federal court proceedings, in which a former partner is attempting to recoup money over a movie deal gone bad.  —  BEAST INSIDE

Democrats urge Trump to rethink July 4 plans  —  Three senior House Democrats are urging President Donald Trump to reconsider his plans to speak at the Fourth of July celebration on the National Mall.  —  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva …

William Barr is asking questions the media don't want asked  —  “I'm amused,” Attorney General William Barr told CBS News' Jan Crawford, “by these people who make a living disclosing classified information, including the names of intelligence operatives, wringing their hands about whether …

Trump admits his Cabinet had ‘some clinkers’  —  The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington" by Alexander Nazaryan.  Copyright © 2019.  Available from Hachette Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.  —  They were the best people, the finest in the land, tasked with returning the nation to greatness.

Trump's empty Cabinet positions have exceeded any recent president, and it's not even close  —  No president in recent history has started their tenure with as many extended Cabinet vacancies as President Trump.  —  Why it matters: Trump has been happy to fill many of the positions with …

Measure Of Public Mood Is ‘Most Liberal Ever Recorded,’ Political Scientist Says  —  The U.S. public's vision for the government's size and scope is “the most liberal ever recorded” in the 68-year history of what's known as the Public Policy Mood estimate, the estimate's creator James Stimson announced Wednesday.

Barack and Michelle Obama Sign Spotify Deal to Produce Exclusive Podcasts  —  NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW  — YouTube Says It's Reviewing Harassment Policies, After It Condoned Sustained Attacks on Gay Latino Journalist  —  President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama …

Mexico aims to avoid tariffs with potential deal limiting migrants going north, allowing U.S. to deport Central American asylum seekers  —  U.S. and Mexican officials are discussing the outlines of a deal that would dramatically increase Mexico's immigration enforcement efforts and give …

John James announces Senate bid in Michigan  —  Republican John James announced another campaign for Senate in Michigan Thursday, setting up a major clash with first-term Democratic Sen. Gary Peters.  —  James, a veteran and businessman, ran for Senate in 2018, losing by 7 percentage points to Sen. Debbie Stabenow.