Trump Ordered Ukraine Ambassador Removed After Complaints From Giuliani, Others  —  Marie Yovanovitch dismissed after Trump allies said she was blocking Biden probe and bad-mouthing president, people familiar with the matter say  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump ordered the removal of the ambassador …

IRS whistleblower said to report Treasury political appointee might have tried to interfere in audit of Trump or Pence  —  An Internal Revenue Service official has filed a whistleblower complaint reporting that he was told at least one Treasury Department political appointee attempted …

Three Chairs Provide Update on Investigative Work, Volker Testimony & Text Messages  —  f t # e  —  Washington—Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs received testimony from Ambassador Kurt Volker …

Schiff's Shifty Timeline  —  What did the House Intel Committee chairman know and when did he know it?  —  If the latest impeachment push continues to backfire, Democrats can thank their duplicitous House Intelligence chairman, Adam Schiff.  —  The New York Times reported this week that the …

Scoop: Trump letter dares Pelosi to hold vote on impeachment inquiry  —  The White House is planning to send Speaker Nancy Pelosi a letter as soon as Friday arguing that President Trump and his team can ignore lawmakers' demands until she holds a full House vote formally approving an impeachment inquiry …

Why Trump Voters Stick With Him  —  An imagined conversation with Flyover Man.  —  Urban Guy: I hope you read the rough transcript of that Trump phone call with the Ukrainian president.  Trump clearly used public power to ask a foreign leader to dig up dirt on his political opponent.

Another GOP senator breaks from Trump to defend Ukraine whistleblower  —  “I stand with Chuck Grassley on this,” Ernst said, referring to Iowa's other Republican senator who defended the unnamed whistleblower.  —  Another Republican senator is speaking out in defense of the intelligence …

Pence Makes Clear There Is No Daylight Between Him and Trump  —  The vice president has risen to his boss's defense at a moment of crisis that some Republicans fear could inflict lasting damage on them both.  —  WASHINGTON — He held firm when the “Access Hollywood” tape nearly ended President Trump's 2016 campaign.

Did Donald Trump Just Self-Impeach?  —  In the ten days since the House of Representatives launched its impeachment inquiry, President Trump has spoken and tweeted thousands of words in public.  He has called the investigation a “coup” and the press “deranged.”

'Americans don't look to Chinese commies for the truth': Sasse decries Trump's call for probe  —  “If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that's a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running torture camps,” Sen. Ben Sasse told The World-Herald on Thursday.

Tucker And Patel: The Truth About Impeachment  —  Donald Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden.  Some Republicans are trying, but there's no way to spin this as a good idea.

2 Women Say James Franco's Acting School Sexually Exploited Them  —  In a lawsuit filed Thursday, the women say the school pressured them into uncomfortable activities and promised acting opportunities that did not materialize.  —  The women came to the acting school with hopes of developing their skills …

Donald Trump Is Stuck In A Human Centipede Of Boomer Memes  —  Since the beginning of the 2016 election cycle, some of President Donald Trump's supporters have claimed that the Republican is more cunning than he appears, playing “four-dimensional chess.”  But what was never totally clear …

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump's call with Ukraine president manifests criminal and impeachable behavior  —  The House of Representatives has begun to gather evidence in an effort to determine if President Trump has committed impeachable offenses.  The Constitution defines an impeachable offense as …

Bob Woodward interviewed the ‘She Said’ authors at a book event.  Things got tense.  Then there was heckling.  —  It seemed like the perfect combination of three Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists: The Washington Post's Bob Woodward interviewing the New York Times's Jodi Kantor …

Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation's Seniors  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:  —  Section 1.  Purpose.  The proposed Medicare for All Act of 2019 …