Pompeo says State Dept. officials won't show up for scheduled impeachment depositions this week  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo fired a broadside at House Democrats on Tuesday, saying State Department officials scheduled to appear this week before committees conducting the impeachment inquiry …

Tense Relationship Between Barr and Giuliani Complicates Trump Impeachment Defense  —  The president's two highest-profile lawyers are struggling to get on the same page  —  WASHINGTON—Attorney General William Barr called President Trump in April with a question: What was Rudy Giuliani doing?

In leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook against critics and the US government  —  In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government.  —  July should have been a relief for Facebook.

Amber Guyger convicted of murder in wrong-apartment killing of innocent man  —  A Texas jury rejected former Dallas police officer Amber Guyer's self-defense claims and convicted her on Tuesday of murder in the fatal 2018 shooting of an innocent man eating ice cream in his own home after mistaking his apartment for her own.

Grassley breaks with Trump over protecting whistleblower  —  As President Donald Trump and his allies attack the whistleblower that kicked off the House's impeachment inquiry, the still unidentified person gained a powerful ally on Tuesday: Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley.

This Is the Moment Rachel Maddow Has Been Waiting For  —  How the MSNBC host staked her show on Trump — and won the largest and most obsessive audience of her career.  —  Rachel Maddow was trying to get to work.  She only had to get from the glass door of her doctor's office …

US manufacturing survey shows worst reading in a decade  — The ISM U.S. manufacturing purchasing managers' index came in at 47.8% in September, the lowest since June 2009.  —  ISM Manufacturing slips to 47.8 in September, vs. 50.2 expected  —  A gauge of U.S. manufacturing showed …

Impeachment Support Up Slightly But Trump Job Rating Steady  —  Most say request for investigation of political foe is inappropriate  —  West Long Branch, NJ - President Donald Trump's approval rating has remained steady in the wake of an official impeachment inquiry launched last week …

Intelligence Inspector General to GOP: You Know Nothing of My Work  —  Last Thursday, Sean Davis of the conservative news site The Federalist broke an explosive revelation.  The Intelligence Community had secretly changed a requirement in its whistle-blower statute to allow whistle-blowers …

Giuliani hires Watergate prosecutor to represent him in House impeachment probe  —  Rudy Giuliani, the outspoken personal attorney for Donald Trump, has hired his own lawyer to represent him in the House's fast-moving impeachment investigation into the president.

Another Devin Nunes lawsuit: Congressman sues magazine over story about family's Iowa farm  —  Rep. Devin Nunes filed another lawsuit this week drawing attention to what he believes was unfair news coverage of him in 2018, this time suing a magazine writer who detailed how the California congressman's family …

Fights For Us  —  Bernie Sanders - we know he'll fight for us as president because he always has.  Contribute at www.berniesanders.com

The GOP's Texas problem  —  The retirement of six House Republicans from Texas at the end of this term shows their pessimism about winning back the House majority in 2020, GOP strategists tell Axios — and foreshadows bigger Republican fears in the nation's second most populous state.

‘He conned us from day one’: Giuliani's Ukraine ally leaves trail of South Florida debts  —  Over the summer, Dianne and Michael Pues got an ominous phone call from the business partner of a Ukrainian-American entrepreneur who owes the couple more than $500,000 over a movie deal gone bad.

Me and My Whistleblower  —  Deutsche Bank.  North Korea.  The Intelligence Committee's investigation of the president.  Again and again, one man has taken his trove of secret documents — and uncanny nose for scandal — to the center of the news.  —  One sunny Wednesday in February …

Former Infowars Editor Says Staff Laughed When He Asked Not To Lie About Sandy Hook  —  In a court deposition, Rob Jacobson said he told Infowars staff to stop spreading lies about the Sandy Hook parents.  He says he was laughed at instead.  —  A 13-year veteran of conspiracy website Infowars …

What is Trump trying to cover up about his Saudi phone calls and Jamal Khashoggi's murder?  —  From the ridiculous — remember that insane photo op with the glowing orb, and President Trump's bizarre line dance with sword-wielding sheikhs? — to the covert, relations between the United States …

GOP defenses for Trump's Ukraine call quickly collapse under scrutiny  — Trump, his aides and select allies in Congress have feverishly sought to redirect a whistleblower's complaints toward Democratic adversaries.  — Yet even cursory scrutiny of evidence that has emerged so far knocks …

The Floodgates Open on Trump  —  Shortly after eight this morning, the President of the United States, making maximal use of his “executive time,” wielded his smartphone to issue a legal threat against the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.  It is worth reading the missive from @realDonaldTrump in full:

Judge to DOJ: Decide on charging Andrew McCabe by Nov. 15, or face release of FBI records  —  A veteran federal judge on Monday warned U.S. prosecutors either to charge former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe or to drop their investigation into whether he lied to investigators …

How White Liberals Became Woke, Radically Changing Their Outlook On Race  —  Jeromy Brown, a 46-year-old teacher in Iowa, considers President Trump a white supremacist.  —  “If the shoe fits, then say it, and the shoe fits him,” Brown said, while waiting in a photo line at an Elizabeth Warren rally in August.

White House ordered top-secret system upgraded to prevent leaks  —  The Trump White House upgraded the security of the National Security Council's top-secret codeword system in the spring of 2018, according to two former Trump White House officials familiar with the matter, as part of an effort to ferret out and deter leaks.

William Barr discussed FBI Russia inquiry with UK intelligence  —  US attorney general raised review of Trump-Russia inquiry at meeting in London, say sources  —  The US attorney general met UK intelligence agencies in the summer to discuss Britain potentially cooperating …

Press Release - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao Announces FAA Certification of UPS Flight Forward as an Air Carrier  —  For Immediate Release  —  Phone: (202) 267-3883; Email: bobby.fraser@faa.gov  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced …

Mark Meadows and the Undisclosed Dinosaur Property  —  A fight among fossil hunters, a dubious documentary, and the conservative congressman from North Carolina.  —  Three years ago, the North Carolina congressman Mark Meadows sold a hundred-and-thirty-four-acre property in Dinosaur, Colorado.

South Carolina Republican Party gets sued for canceling its 2020 presidential primary  —  Two Republicans, one of them former congressman Bob Inglis, have sued the S.C. Republican Party over its decision to cancel its GOP presidential primary next year.  —  The lawsuit, filed Tuesday …

Robert S. Mueller III and Other Special Counsel's Office Members Rejoin WilmerHale  —  Related Solutions  —  WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Robert S. Mueller III is rejoining the firm as a partner after serving as special counsel for the US Department of Justice.

HERETICON  —  This May 2020 we're hosting HERETICON, a conference for thoughtcrime.  Here's why:  —  From Galileo to Jesus Christ, heretical thinkers have been met with hostility, even death, and vindicated by posterity.  That ideological outcasts have shaped the world is an observation …

Ex-GOP Chair Hayes could testify against others in scheme: ‘They should be worried.’  —  Under a deal with federal prosecutors, North Carolina's former state Republican chairman could testify against other defendants in the state's largest-ever case of political bribery.

As Bankrupt Steelmaker Closes Plant, Governor Points to Tariffs  — Bayou Steel Group filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware  — Louisiana is dependent on tariffed metals, state official says  —  Bayou Steel Group filed for bankruptcy Monday, threatening hundreds of jobs …

Appeals court upholds FCC's cancelling of net neutrality rules  —  But the 200-page ruling says the FCC was wrong to issue a blanket ban against states considering their own regulations  —  A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed that the Federal Communications Commission acted lawfully …