Exclusive: Turkey bombs US special forces in Syria attack, apparently by mistake  —  A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria.  —  Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official …

Ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch tells Congress Trump pressured State Dept. to remove her  —  The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine whose abrupt ouster in May has become a topic of interest for House impeachment investigators said Friday that her departure came as a direct result …

More Potential Whistleblowers Are Contacting Congress  —  The first two officials who came forward about the president's pressure campaign on Ukraine seem to be just the beginning, according to Hill sources.  —  New potential whistleblowers are coming forward to the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry …

Federal appeals court upholds House subpoena for Trump's financial records  — A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., upheld a subpoena for President Donald Trump's financial records from the Democrat-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Rudy Giuliani's relationship with arrested men is subject of criminal investigation: Sources  —  The business relationship between President Donald Trump's private lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the men charged Thursday in a campaign finance scheme is a subject of the ongoing criminal investigation …

Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash  —  Aram Roston, Karen Freifeld, Polina Ivanova  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the two Florida businessmen who helped U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney investigate his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden …

Shepard Smith Leaving Fox News  —  The anchor is one of the faces of the network's news division and one of its most important journalistic assets.  —  In a shocking turn of events that stunned the media industry, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith announced his departure from the network after more than 23 years on Friday afternoon.

“YOU ARE TO STAND DOWN”: RONAN FARROW'S PRODUCER ON HOW NBC KILLED ITS WEINSTEIN STORY  —  Rich McHugh recounts how top NBC brass, including news chairman Andrew Lack and news president Noah Oppenheim, bowed to Harvey Weinstein to quash the truth.  —  One year ago, I resigned from NBC News …

Bill Barr, Trump's Hatchet Man, Is About to Become His Scapegoat  —  Trump's DOJ is arguing that Congress should never have heard Nixon's “smoking gun” tape and should be barred from reviewing any further evidence of Trump's criminality.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Since William Barr became …

Pentagon officials deemed withholding of aid to Ukraine was illegal  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon was confused.  Hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine had been appropriated in late 2018 by Congress, intended to help fend off aggression by neighboring Russia.

Pompeo refuses to say if he met with Giuliani on February Warsaw trip  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is doing “everything he can,” according to Andrea Mitchell, to avoid discussing Rudy Giuliani.  Former CIA director John Brennan joins to discuss.

How Trump-Country Democrat Rep. Max Rose Got to Impeachment  —  Because this is a story about Max Rose, it has to at some point find him at Jody's Club Forest, a Staten Island bar he famously frequents, drinking pitchers of Bud Light.  And because Max Rose is who he is …

Greta Thunberg snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize by committee run by Norway, one of the world's biggest oil and natural gas exporters  —  The Nobel Committee has surprised oddsmakers by not picking 16-year-old Greta Thunberg to win the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.  —  The five-member Norwegian panel …

2020 Presidential debate sites announced for general election  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Belmont University in Nashville will host the 2020 presidential debates ahead of next November's general election.

‘Stunning in ugliness & tone’: Trump denounced for attacking Somali refugees in Minnesota  —  For roughly six minutes Thursday night, President Trump predictably singled out Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during his campaign rally in her home district of Minneapolis.

Rand Paul Goes Down in Flames on ‘The View’: 'Don't Mansplain!'  —  The Republican senator's flailing performance did not win over anyone on “The View” Friday morning.  —  Meghan McCain skipped out on Rand Paul's appearance on The View Friday morning—citing “personal reasons” …

A Group Of Students Burned A Latina Author's Book Because They Felt Attacked For Being White  —  Jennine Capó Crucet spoke about “white privilege” at Georgia Southern University.  The freshman audience said she attacked them for being white and privileged.

Trump predicts senators will quash impeachment.  His allies aren't so sure.  —  Donald Trump made a defiant prediction last week that Senate Republicans will be the bulwark to keep Democrats from ending his presidency.  —  But behind the scenes, Republicans and Trump's informal circle …

“You spent a f—ing week on pneumonia-gate”  —  The news of Senator Bernie Sanders' heart attack has made headlines, sure.  But compared to the relentless media reports about Hillary Clinton's near fainting-spell in 2016, brought on by pneumonia, the coverage of Sanders' health problems has been light.

Judge Blocks Trump Policy That Favors Wealthy Immigrants  —  An injunction prevents the administration from withholding green cards to immigrants who receive federal assistance like Medicaid, pending further legal review.  —  A federal judge in New York issued a nationwide injunction …

Trump's children take in millions overseas as president slams Biden's son  —  Eric Trump sounded shocked that Hunter Biden hadn't drawn more criticism for his lucrative business deals in Ukraine and China while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president.  —  “Can you imagine if I took 3 cents from the Ukraine or 4 cents from China?”

UPDATED x2 *** Sanguinetti bows out of congressional race  —  * From Evelyn Sanguinetti via a campaign spokesperson...  It is with deep regret that I must announce that I have officially decided to end my campaign for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Congress for the 6th Congressional District of Illinois.

Trump Bored by His Own Speech, Just Wants to Talk About TV Shows  —  Roughly half an hour into his rally in Minneapolis last night, President Trump was reciting his prepared remarks about the evil political establishment shipping jobs overseas and flooding your communities with drugs and immigrants.

The Memo: Bad polls for Trump shake GOP  —  President Trump's troubles are deepening, according to several recent opinion polls that show rising public support for impeachment.  —  Those polls include one released Wednesday from Fox News that sent shock waves through Washington.