Exclusive: Trump lawyer Giuliani was paid $500,000 to consult on indicted associate's firm  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was paid $500,000 for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week …

Makes More Sense |  Pete Buttigieg for President … To stay connected with the campaign:  —  About Pete:  —  Pete Buttigieg is a husband, Afghanistan veteran, and the Mayor of his hometown, South Bend, Indiana.  —  Pete is running for president because this is a now or never moment for our nation.

Exclusive: ‘Hiding in plain sight’: Hunter Biden defends foreign ventures but concedes political ‘mistake’  —  As President Donald Trump continues to fill his Twitter feed and campaign speeches with attacks on Hunter Biden over his foreign business deals, the former vice president's son defended …

Russia patrolling between Turkish and Syrian forces after U.S. troops withdraw  —  ISTANBUL — Russia announced on Tuesday that its units were patrolling between the Turkish and Syrian militaries near the northern Syrian town of Manbij, in a sign that Moscow, a key ally of the Syrian government …

British holidaymakers ‘traumatised’ after arrest at US border  —  A British couple say they have been detained in the US after accidentally crossing the border from Canada.  —  David Connors, 30, and his wife Eileen, 24, say they are being held in Pennsylvania with their three-month-old baby and are “traumatised”.

White House tried to limit what former Russia aide Fiona Hill could say to Congress, letters show  —  The White House did not try and block her from testifying but told her lawyers about areas that could fall under executive privilege.  —  The White House tried to limit what Fiona Hill …

LeBron James undermines values he's espoused in most disgraceful moment of career  —  On behalf of the 327 million American citizens who generally believe that freedom is good and authoritarian regimes are less good, let me apologize to LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Impeachment Could End Collins' Career  —  PPP's newest Maine poll finds that Susan Collins is in trouble for reelection...and that she's likely to find herself in more trouble no matter what side of impeachment she comes down on.  —  Collins is unpopular, with only 35% of voters approving of the job she's doing to 50% who disapprove.

Continue the Investigation.  Begin the Impeachment.  —  The most compelling evidence for impeachment is now in the public record.  White House Counsel Pat Cipollone's refusal to cooperate with the House's impeachment inquiry is an attack not on its recipients—House Democrats who …

Why Are Democrats Jilting G.O.P. Voters Who Want to Like Them?  —  Candidates are leaving potential Republican converts without options.  —  Ms. Andersen is a freelance writer in Indianapolis.  —  Under President Trump, a small slice of America's electorate seeks a reason to call the Democratic Party home for the very first time.

The transformation of Elizabeth Warren  —  She faced sexism, split with a husband and found her voice teaching law in Houston  —  HOUSTON — Elizabeth Warren hadn't stepped foot on the University of Houston Law Center campus in nearly 15 years, not since she'd left her first full-time teaching job there.

Is this Barr's cry for help?  —  On Friday, in a closed-door speech at the University of Notre Dame, Attorney General William P. Barr talked at length about a “campaign to destroy the traditional moral order.”  —  The alleged perpetrator of this campaign?  —  “Militant secularists,” …

Trump's Syria Mess  —  He resorts to sanctions as the harm from withdrawal builds.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  What a fiasco.  Foreign-policy blunders often take months or years to reveal their damaging consequences, but the harm from President Trump's abrupt withdrawal of U.S. forces …

‘Everything becomes a conspiracy theory’: Trump leans into spurious claims for impeachment defense  —  A president who rose to political prominence on birtherism — and then won the White House obsessed with Hillary Clinton's emails — is latching onto scraps of conspiracy theories to build his political defense against impeachment.

Gov. Cuomo drops the n-word during live radio interview  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo used the N-word during a live radio interview Tuesday while discussing racism against Italian-Americans.  —  Cuomo called into WAMC radio where he was asked about the controversy surrounding Indigenous Peoples' Day …