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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

D-Day 75: Nations honor veterans, memory of fallen troops  —  OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — With the silence of remembrance and respect, nations honored the memory of the fallen and the singular bravery of all Allied troops who sloshed through bloodied water to the landing beaches of Normandy …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

White House invites key Trump business allies to Bahrain forum in search for a Middle East ‘deal of the century’  —  KEY POINTS  — The White House has invited some of President Trump's key business allies to an event in Bahrain intended to kick-start the administration's long-awaited Middle East peace plan.

Joe Biden Once Made Common Cause With School Segregationists  —  The candidate's years as an anti-busing crusader cannot be forgotten—or readily forgiven.  —  Advocates for children and civil rights who have not yet given up entirely on the struggle to break down the walls of racial isolation …

Drag Queen Story Time Continues Its Reign at Libraries, Despite Backlash  —  Once upon a time, at a public library in San Francisco, a drag queen arrived at story time and read to the children she met there.  —  The children — no strangers to playing make believe — had fun …

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Roy Moore's lawyer Trenton Garmon arrested on drug charges  —  Former Senate candidate Roy Moore's attorney was arrested Wednesday night for charges of driving under the influence and for possessing drugs.  —  Trenton Roger Garmon, 39, was booked into the Etowah County Jail around 8 p.m., according to jail records.

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 …