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.

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:

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Booker raised over $6 million in third quarter thanks to late surge  —  Sen. Cory Booker raised more than $6 million in the third quarter, his presidential campaign said Tuesday, buoyed by a surge of more than 46,000 donations totaling $2.1 million in the final 10 days of September.

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 …

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.

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 …

Institute for Supply Management Home  —  E-mail: kcahill@instituteforsupplymanagement.or g  —  September 2019 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®  —  New Orders, Production, and Employment Contracting  —  Supplier Deliveries Slowing at a Slower Rate; Backlog Contracting

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 …

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.

Trump's approval rating drops to low, but Americans still oppose impeachment, survey finds  — The latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey found 47% opposing impeachment hearings and 44% approving.  The difference is within the poll's 3.5% margin of error.

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.

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.

Voter registration surges in Georgia ahead of 2020 elections  —  New voters have registered in droves in Georgia since last year's midterms, expanding the electorate ahead of the 2020 presidential election year when the state is expected to be a key political battleground.

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 …

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 …

The FDA tried to ban flavors years before the vaping outbreak.  Top Obama officials rejected the plan  —  Unicorn Vomit.  Cotton Candy.  Gummy Bear.  Skittles.  —  Some teenagers who tried these playful vaping flavors thought they were just inhaling water vapor — not also nicotine …

Devin Nunes Sues Reporter, Hearst for Article About Family's Iowa Dairy  —  (CN) - California Representative Devin Nunes asked a federal court in Iowa Monday to award him $75 million in damages in a defamation and common law conspiracy suit against reporter Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines.