Shoot Migrants' Legs, Build Alligator Moat: Behind Trump's Ideas for Border  —  WASHINGTON — The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants.  But this time he had a solution.  As White House advisers listened astonished …

Pompeo Pushed Out His Own Ukraine Rep to Squash a Growing Scandal  —  “Volker was the easier guy to let go,” said one former State Department official.  “But just because it is an easy choice doesn't mean it is the right choice.”  —  When President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani appeared …

Support for impeaching Trump hits new high  —  Support for impeaching President Donald Trump is growing.  —  A batch of recent polling confirms the Democratic impeachment push is gaining steam — including a new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey that shows for the first time that more voters support …

Donald Trump impeachment: President called Boris Johnson for help to discredit Mueller inquiry  —  President Trump personally contacted Boris Johnson to ask for help as he tried to discredit the Mueller investigation into possible connections between Russia and his 2016 election campaign, The Times understands.

A Trump hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms  —  House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.

Why Do Black Democrats Usually Prefer Establishment Candidates?  —  Black voters effectively delivered Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.  She and Sen. Bernie Sanders ran about evenly among white voters, but black voters overwhelmingly backed Clinton.

Barr Went to Rome to Hear a Secret Tape From Joseph Mifsud, the Professor Who Helped Ignite the Russia Probe  —  The U.S. attorney general traveled to Italy to meet with Italian secret service agents—and, potentially, undermine the Mueller investigation.  —  Correspondent-At-Large

Impeachment inquiry puts new focus on Giuliani's work for prominent figures in Ukraine  —  The hunt by President Trump's attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani for material in Ukraine damaging to Democrats has put a spotlight on business ties he has had in the former Soviet republic for at least a decade …

Impeachment Rules Say Senate Must Act, but Its Act Might Be a Swift Dismissal  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell's comment this week that the Senate would be forced to “take up” articles of impeachment from the House had the capital in a swirl, bracing for a full-blown Senate trial of President Trump.

Was There Another Cover-Up In Response to the Whistle-Blower?  —  The Justice Department should have shared a campaign-finance investigation with the Federal Election Commission.  —  Mr. Geltzer and Mr. Katyal are law professors at Georgetown.  —  One of the first things new prosecutors …

Warren Proposes Steep Lobbying Taxes on Top U.S. Companies  — Plan is part of push to curb influence of money in politics  — Campaign says levy could raise $10 billion over a decade  —  Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday unveiled details of a tax on lobbying that would cost …

Will Trump Ever Leave the White House?  —  It's a loaded question — with no obvious answer.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  Since 2015, we have been worrying about how much danger Donald Trump posed to democracy.

Donald Trump's Sons Have Sold More Than $100 Million Of His Real Estate Since He Took Office  —  There are big dreams, and then there are Trump-size dreams, ones that demand capital letters and tower over cities.  They are what nudged Donald Trump's grandfather Friedrich from Germany to New York …

Virginia police officer suspended after turning in suspected undocumented immigrant over to ICE  —  A Virginia police officer was suspended after allegedly turning over a suspected undocumented immigrant to federal authorities following a traffic accident last month.

Alan Dershowitz's new book will counter the #MeToo movement  —  Alan Dershowitz — who has been mired in controversy over his taking on Jeffrey Epstein as a client and over his friendly ties to the late sex predator — is about to stir things up again with a new book, “Guilt by Accusation …

THE BIDEN PLAN TO END OUR GUN VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC - Joe Biden for President  —  Joe Biden knows that gun violence is a public health epidemic.  Almost 40,000 people die as a result of firearm injuries every year in the United States, and many more are wounded.

Fired by Trump as AG, Jeff Sessions says ‘I still do support him’  —  Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions began his speech Tuesday night in Huntsville joking about being fired last year by President Donald Trump.  —  And Sessions, who served 20 years as a U.S. senator from Alabama …

Boeing Engineer, in Official Complaint, Cited Focus on Profit Over Safety on 737 Max  —  A senior Boeing engineer filed an internal ethics complaint this year saying that during the development of the 737 Max jet the company had rejected a safety system to minimize costs …

GEO Group Runs Out of Banks as 100% of Banking Partners Say ‘No’ to the Private Prison Sector  —  I write about money and social justice.  —  All of the existing banking partners to private prison leader GEO Group have now officially committed to ending ties with the private prison and immigrant detention industry.

Republicans Changing Delegate Rules to Prevent Discord at Convention  —  President Trump's political advisers have been working for months to get states to adjust their plans to ensure that nothing disrupts next year's convention.  —  President Trump's political advisers have concluded …

‘A presidency of one’: Key federal agencies increasingly compelled to benefit Trump  —  The president's personal concerns have become priorities of departments that traditionally have operated with some degree of political independence from the White House — and their leaders are engaging their boss's obsessions.

Corey Lewandowski Hurls Incendiary Charge at Sanders, Warren: They Want ‘Illegal Aliens to Come Across This Border and Kill Americans’  —  Donald Trump's former campaign Corey Lewandowski confirmed his reputation as a ferocious attack dog for the president, hurling a toxic …

Susan Collins Feted as “Hero of Kavanaugh Confirmation” at High-Dollar California Fundraiser  —  Just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Sen. Susan Collins will be marking the occasion at a California fundraiser, where she is being feted as the …

The chances of Republicans deserting Trump are underrated  —  Upon dismissing his chief of staff in 1973, Richard Nixon said that he loved him “like my brother”.  The line seems too easy until you remember that the US president had seen two of his own die young.

The story of Jamal Khashoggi's murder and how the world looked the other way  —  One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out.  In the months that followed the facts of his disappearance and murder would emerge in fragments …