Exclusive: Official Who Heard Call Says Trump Got ‘Rolled’ By Turkey and ‘Has No Spine’  —  Donald Trump got “rolled” by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a National Security Council source with direct knowledge of the discussions told Newsweek.  —  In a scheduled phone call …

Warren stands by account of being pushed out of her first teaching job because of pregnancy  —  On the campaign trail, Elizabeth Warren often tells the story of how she was fired from her first teaching job in 1971 because she was pregnant, a pivotal moment that ultimately put her on a path to Harvard …

RealClear Media Has a Secret Facebook Page to Push Far-Right Memes  —  RealClearPolitics has carefully cultivated a non-partisan image—while in the shadows its parent company pushes images of killer Clintons and a freedom-loving Kremlin.  —  The company behind the non-partisan news site RealClearPolitics …

“Romney Is the Pressure Point in the Impeachment Process”: Mitt Won't Primary Trump—But He's Trying to Bring Him Down  —  Trump's favorite punching bag is reaching out to fellow Republicans to raise the temperature on impeachment.  “Romney is the one guy who could bring along Susan Collins …

The World's Wokest Sports League Bows to China  —  The N.B.A. apologizes on behalf of Daryl Morey, a general manager who voiced support for democracy.  —  Ms. Weiss is an Opinion staff writer and editor and the author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism.”  —  The national editor of this newspaper …

Witness in Trump-Ukraine Matter Ordered Not to Speak in Impeachment Inquiry  —  The Trump administration directed a top American diplomat involved in its pressure campaign on Ukraine not to appear Tuesday morning for a scheduled deposition with House Democrats conducting an impeachment inquiry …

Polls begin to signal rising impeachment threat to Trump  — Despite last week's hailstorm of bad news, President Trump's job approval rating stood virtually unchanged.  — Except for Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah and a few others, GOP members of the House and Senate have either defended …

Poll: Majority of Americans say they endorse opening of House impeachment inquiry of Trump  —  A majority of Americans say they endorse the decision by House Democrats to begin an impeachment inquiry of President Trump, and nearly half of all adults also say the House should take the additional step …

The Humiliation of Lindsey Graham  —  It was a cri de cœur from Lindsey Graham, the lament of the sycophant scorned.  —  President Donald Trump's decision to abandon our Kurdish allies in Syria by leaving them undefended against a Turkish invasion was, Graham tweeted, “a disaster” and a “nightmare.”

Demoralized State Department personnel question Pompeo's role in Ukraine crisis  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returned Monday morning from a European trip to a State Department workforce that is increasingly demoralized and resentful under his leadership, amid a growing belief …

Jerry Falwell Jr. settles Miami court case over South Beach ‘pool boy’ venture  —  Jerry Falwell Jr. has settled the Miami court case that laid out many of the details behind the South Beach real estate venture his family launched in 2013 with a former Fontainebleau pool attendant …

POLITICO Playbook: Trump changes the subject  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THINK ABOUT what's transpired in the last few days. ...  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has reoriented the United States' policy in the Middle East.  He's officially changed the Washington conversation from impeachment to a unified …

Johnson Tells Merkel Deal ‘Essentially Impossible’: Brexit Update  —  Follow @Brexit and sign up to our Brexit Bulletin.  —  Boris Johnson told German Chancellor Angela Merkel a Brexit deal is essentially impossible if the EU demands Northern Ireland should stay in the bloc's customs union.

EXCLUSIVE: Report Shows FBI Official Received Sports Tickets From CNN Reporter And Lied About It To Investigators  — An FBI senior official who resigned under mysterious circumstances last year accepted baseball game tickets from a CNN reporter in 2016 and lied about it to investigators …

Trump's 2016 campaign was run on a shoestring.  His reelection machine is huge — and armed with consultants.  —  Since 2017, nearly $92 million has flowed to dozens of firms providing political consulting services to Trump's 2020 reelection machine.  —  Donald Trump's presidential campaign …

Friction Between U.S., European Regulators Could Delay 737 MAX Return to Service  —  European air-safety regulator has indicated it wants more testing on proposed revisions to flight-control computers  —  Boeing Co. BA 0.22% 's delay-prone effort to return 737 MAX jets to service has hit a new snag …

Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman: Trump wrong to seek help from Ukraine, China  —  While he still says impeachment is too extreme, Sen. Rob Portman readily acknowledged today that President Donald Trump should not have asked the Ukraine or China for help investigating former Vice President Joe Biden.

Trump's focus on his base may not help him with impeachment inquiry  —  Voters in critical swing state on impeachment  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump may have more room to fall in public attitudes toward his possible removal from office, detailed results from several new polls suggest.

Two Candidates, Two Investigations, One Deeply Flawed Agency  —  Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law  —  During the 2016 presidential election, one of the two major candidates labored under the shadow of a criminal investigation by the F.B.I. That candidate was Hillary Clinton.

Sanders heart attack casts cloud over his candidacy  —  Bernie Sanders has been sidelined for nearly a week — after failing for almost three days to disclose that he had a heart attack.  It's unclear when the 78-year-old senator will return to the stump.  His campaign has yet to divulge the severity of his heart attack.

Leftist Minneapolis Mayor Uses Target Center to Stomp 1st Amendment Rights of Over 1.3 Million Trump Supporters  —  The radical leftist mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is abusing the power of his office and attempting to extort President Trump's re-election campaign by conjuring a phony …

Inside Trump's obsession with polygraphs  —  President Donald Trump has compared White House leakers to spies and mused obliquely to other officials about executing them.  He's attacked individual reporters by name.  He rails frequently against press accounts of his administration, dismissing them as “fake news.”

As Sea Levels Rise, So Do Ghost Forests  —  Up and down the mid-Atlantic coast, sea levels are rising rapidly, creating stands of dead trees — often bleached, sometimes blackened — known as ghost forests.  —  The water is gaining as much as 5 millimeters per year in some places …

Top Military Officers Unload on Trump  —  For most of the past two decades, American troops have been deployed all over the world—to about 150 countries.  During that time, hundreds of thousands of young men and women have experienced combat, and a generation of officers have come of age dealing with the practical realities of war.

These Trade Claims Made by Trump?  They're All Wrong  —  The president and his advisers have been deluded about what big tariff hikes and aggressive negotiating tactics will achieve.  —  Ms. de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.