Macabre Video of Fake Trump Shooting Media and Critics Is Shown at His Resort  —  WASHINGTON — A video depicting a macabre scene of a fake President Trump shooting, stabbing and brutally assaulting members of the news media and his political opponents was shown at a conference for his supporters …

Trump Followed His Gut on Syria.  Calamity Came Fast.  —  All the warnings were there.  But President Trump's reliance on his instincts, and his relationships, led him to ignore the consequences of a move that has emboldened Russia, Iran and the Islamic State.

Former Trump Aide to Testify on Pressure to Oust Ambassador to Ukraine  —  WASHINGTON — Fiona Hill, President Trump's former top Russia and Europe adviser, headed to Capitol Hill on Monday morning where she is prepared to testify that she and other officials objected strenuously to the removal …

The (Full) Case for Impeachment A menu of high crimes and misdemeanors.  —  The crimes for which impeachment is the prescribed punishment are notoriously undefined.  And that's for a reason: Presidential powers are vast, and it's impossible to design laws to cover every possible abuse of the office's authority.

Warren's Rise Hasn't Come At Biden's Expense  —  We've been busy the past few weeks tracking public opinion on impeachment, launching our new NBA metric (RAPTOR!) and dealing with about a million breaking news alerts a day.  So I'm not going to give you one of those grandiose overviews of the Democratic primary.

Biden says if he's elected in 2020, he will not pardon Trump  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden today said if he's elected president, he will build on what he called “the squeaky clean...environment” of the Obama White House and have a policy for his family's work that's different than President Trump's.

Inside Trump's Botched Attempt to Hire Trey Gowdy  —  For 24 hours last week, Trey Gowdy, the former South Carolina congressman best known for leading congressional investigations of Hillary Clinton, was the new face of President Trump's outside legal defense and a symbol of a streamlined effort …

ABC News ‘slaughter in Syria’ footage appears to come from a Kentucky gun range  —  Are you distrustful of the coverage of what is happening now in northern Syria between the Kurds and the Turkish army?  You have good reason to be.  —  ABC aired supposedly shocking footage Monday morning purporting …

China Wants More Talks Before Signing Trump's ‘Phase One’ Deal  —  China wants further talks as soon as the end of October to hammer out the details of the “phase one” trade deal touted by Donald Trump before Xi Jinping agrees to sign it, according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.

Bill Barr's meeting with Fox News chairman should be investigated  —  Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast.  Follow him @DeanObeidallah.  The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.

LIVEReaction after Queen outlines government's agenda  —  Follow us on Twitter @BBCPolitics and @BBCParliament - Read more: New laws on crime, health and environment planned and Brexit talks continue ahead of summit  —  Live Reporting  —  Queen's Speech in numbers

Voters aren't buying Trump's promises of a health care plan  —  New polling shows that most of the public does not think President Trump has or will have a health care plan.  —  Driving the news: The Kaiser Family Foundation's next tracking poll will show that most Republicans are sticking with Trump …

New Poll Finds Trump Underwater in Ohio, Trailing Generic Democrat  —  Columbus, OH - A new poll from Public Policy Polling and Innovation Ohio shows that Ohio is set to return to its traditional status as a battleground state in 2020.  —  A memo on the results and the cross tabs can be found on Innovation Ohio's website.

The Demolition of U.S. Diplomacy  —  Not Since Joe McCarthy Has the State Department Suffered Such a Devastating Blow  —  In my three and a half decades as a U.S. Foreign Service officer, proudly serving five presidents and ten secretaries of state from both parties, I've never seen an attack …

The Daily 202: Trump hands Putin another win with Syria pullout  —  THE BIG IDEA: Vladimir Putin has won so much these past three years that he may get tired of winning.  —  The U.S. intelligence community's January 2017 report on Russian interference in the previous year's presidential campaign sought …

States are cutting university budgets.  Taxpayers aren't interested in funding campus kooks  —  University campuses have abandoned their central mission in their pursuit of utopia.  The American public has had enough.  —  CONNECT  —  Times are bad for higher education, and higher educators are beginning to notice it.