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.

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 …

Warren wishes handcuffs for Trump, says Biden wrong on abortion  —  The Massachusetts Democrat and 2020 contender let loose at an MSNBC town hall in Indiana.  —  FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said at an MSNBC town hall on Wednesday night that Joe Biden is wrong for supporting …

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.

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.

YouTube Punishes Steven Crowder for Homophobic Speech, a Confused Approach to an Unsolvable Problem  —  In the last 24 hours, YouTube declined to punish conservative content creator Steven Crowder for homophobic speech directed at a gay Vox journalist, then debuted a far-reaching ban on extremist videos …

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 to stay at Doonbeg, his money-losing golf course threatened by climate change  —  President Trump arrived at his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, on Wednesday for a two-night stay — pausing between official events in Europe to visit a business that has cost him $41 million and never reported turning a profit.

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 …

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 …

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 …

America's White Saviors  —  To understand the motivations behind the “great awokening” we must first review some of the basics of political psychology.  Social scientists use a model called “The Big Five personality traits” or “five-factor model” to describe how the relative prevalence …

Tucker Carlson Hails Elizabeth Warren's ‘Economic Patriotism’ Plan: ‘She Sounds Like Donald Trump at His Best’  —  Tucker Carlson is... Team Warren?  —  In a stunner of a monologue Wednesday night, the Fox News host praised Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — yes, Elizabeth Warren — for her newly-released economic proposal.

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.

Military to spend a month painting border barriers to “improve aesthetic appearance”  —  Washington — Members of the military deployed near the U.S.-Mexico border have been assigned to spend a month painting a mile-long stretch of barriers to improve their “aesthetic appearance.”

Power Up: Charlamagne tha God has some questions for Joe Biden  —  Good morning and welcome back.  Happy almost Friday 😎 Thanks for all the recipes, and they will be coming tomorrow (if you manage to read to the bottom).  Thanks for waking up with us.

The Shadow of 1998  —  Revisiting and reassessing the GOP's poor showing and the role of impeachment in the result  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — The 1998 election has invariably come up a lot as House Democrats consider whether to impeach President Donald Trump.

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.

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.

At Democratic Retreat, Chiefs of Staff Coached on Schmoozing With K Street  —  Democratic chiefs of staff gathered on Thursday for a retreat to hash out strategy for the coming year and orient themselves in Washington.  One of the key agenda items: “How to Engage Downtown.”

Bernie Sanders Wants to Change America.  But He May Have to Change Himself First.  —  Bernie Sanders wants to make a joke.  Pretty good joke, he thinks.  He is slumped in a window seat in coach on a plane parked at Chicago O'Hare.  He has about an hour in transit to get the joke into his next speech.

'Food Doesn't Grow Here Anymore.  That's Why I Would Send My Son North.'  —  A stark choice for some Guatemalans: watch crops wither, and maybe die with them, or migrate.  —  NENTÓN, Guatemala — To understand why President Trump's new sanctions and other flailing …

Trump's method to the madness on trade  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is not winging it.  —  Or at least he's not totally winging it.  —  However improvisational his daily machinations on trade — presented publicly as motivated by a random mix of mood and twitches of the news cycle …

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Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary  —  His ideas led to early versions of modern computing and helped win World War II.  Yet he died as a criminal for his homosexuality. … LONDON — His genius embraced the first visions of modern computing …

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 …