Dan Coats Expected to Step Down as Intelligence Chief  —  WASHINGTON — Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, is expected to step down in the coming days after spending his tenure at odds with President Trump over issues including Russia and Mr. Trump's own attacks on the intelligence community …

Better to have a few rats than to be one  —  In case anyone missed it, the president of the United States had some choice words to describe Maryland's 7th congressional district on Saturday morning.  Here are the key phrases: “no human being would want to live there,” it is a …

Partisan differences on impeachment remain after Mueller testimony, as nearly half of Americans show little movement: POLL  —  Following more than six hours of questioning of former special counsel Robert Mueller before two different congressional committees, Democrats and Republicans remain largely splintered …

STATEMENT: Rep. Denny Heck Supports an Impeachment Inquiry  —  Congressman Denny Heck (WA-10) released the following statement, announcing his support for a formal impeachment inquiry:  —  “For many months multiple committees of the House have been engaged in investigations …

Hoping for a Warren-Sanders clash?  Their campaigns say don't hold your breath  —  Sanders and Warren prepare for debate face off  —  (CNN)Progressives are determined to lift either Sen. Bernie Sanders or Sen. Elizabeth Warren to the Democratic presidential nomination next year.

Federal Inquiry of Trump Friend Focused on Foreign Lobbying  —  WASHINGTON — As Donald J. Trump was preparing to deliver an address on energy policy in May 2016, Paul Manafort, his campaign chairman, had a question about the speech's contents for Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a top campaign fund-raiser and close friend of Mr. Trump.

Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Nearly 1,400 people were detained in a violent police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, a Russian monitoring group said Sunday, adding that was the largest number of detentions at a rally in the Russian capital this decade.

Kushner owns lots of Baltimore-area apartments.  Some are infested with mice.  —  In a now-viral tweetstorm on Saturday, President Trump characterized Rep. Elijah E. Cummings's Baltimore-based congressional district as a “rodent infested mess” where “no human” would want to live.

Under Brazil's Far Right Leader, Amazon Protections Slashed and Forests Fall  —  BRASÍLIA — The destruction of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil has increased rapidly since the nation's new far-right president took over and his government scaled back efforts to fight illegal logging, ranching and mining.

Netflix's The Great Hack is the great warning about your data  —  Now me, I'm not paranoid, I'm just peculiar.  Or just careful, depending on your slant.  —  One late afternoon this past winter I was out doing myriad errands in my neighbourhood.  I noticed a new coffee shop had opened.