White House restricted access to Trump's calls with Putin and Saudi crown prince  —  Washington (CNN)White House efforts to limit access to President Donald Trump's conversations with foreign leaders extended to phone calls with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian leader Vladimir Putin …

N.R.A.'s LaPierre Asks Trump to ‘Stop the Games’ Over Gun Legislation in Discussion About Its Support  —  President Trump met in the White House on Friday with Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, and discussed prospective gun legislation and whether the N.R …

Trump, caught off guard, struggles to fight impeachment storm  —  As soon as President Trump learned he was facing an impeachment investigation on Tuesday, he upended his meetings with world leaders near the United Nations and rushed to his soaring skyscraper a few blocks away in midtown Manhattan.

Giuliani cancels paid appearance next week at Kremlin-backed conference  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose actions as President Trump's personal lawyer have helped set in motion an impeachment inquiry, abruptly canceled his scheduled paid appearance at a Kremlin-backed conference in Armenia next week.

The Latest: McConnell: If House acts, Senate must have trial  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the House impeachment inquiry (all times local):  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that if the House goes ahead and impeaches President Donald Trump …

President Trump needs to step down  —  Even given the incredibly fast pace of news in the Trump era, the speed with which the Ukraine scandal has moved from vague complaint to impeachable offense has been stunning.  Though we're still at the beginning of the process, there is already a mountain …

Kurt Volker, Trump's Envoy for Ukraine, Resigns  —  WASHINGTON — Kurt D. Volker, the State Department's special envoy for Ukraine, who got caught in the middle of the pressure campaign by President Trump and his lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to find damaging information about Democrats, resigned his post on Friday.

How I missed the Ukraine story  —  In early August, I met Ambassador Kurt Volker, US Special Representative to Ukraine, in Washington, DC.  Volker, fifty-four, is one of a handful of “ordinary” foreign policy Republicans—confident of American power, hawkish on Russia, eager to expand NATO …

Sources: Special envoy to Ukraine resigns one day after whistleblower report released  —  (CNN)Kurt Volker, US special envoy to Ukraine, has resigned one day after the release of a whistleblower report alleging a coverup by the White House of a call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President …

Amodei on Trump impeachment inquiry: 'Let's put it through the process and see what happens'  —  Mark Amodei, R-Nev., talks during an editorial board meeting with The Nevada Independent on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018.  (Jeff Scheid/The Nevada Independent)  —  Rep. Mark Amodei supports the House's inquiry …

The dam is breaking: Trump's true character is revealed, more fully than ever  —  In the classic mafia movie Goodfellas, Ray Liotta's character muses about how he always wanted to grow up to be in the mob.  “To me, being a gangster was better than being president of the United States.”