‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump  —  Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case …

Watching the Raid Was Like a Movie, the President Said.  Except There Was No Live Audio.  —  Surveillance video provided a dramatic portrait of action outside the al-Baghdadi compound, but could not show what happened in an underground tunnel where the ISIS leader died.

President Donald Trump greeted with boos at Game 5 of World Series  —  SportsPulse: This may be the most energetic World Series we've seen in a long time.  For both teams, their exuberance on and off the field has been propelled by the joy often seen in Latin baseball culture.  —  CONNECT

Rep. Katie Hill to resign amid allegations of inappropriate relationships with staffers  —  Freshman Rep. Katie Hill is resigning from Congress after facing allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with staffers in her office and on her congressional campaign.

Former US Senator Kay Hagan dead at 66  —  Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan died Monday.  She was 66.  —  Hagan, a Democrat, served a single term after beating Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in 2008.  She lost to Republican Thom Tillis in 2014.  —  “We are heartbroken to share …

Trump Wants Impeachment Defense Based on Substance, Not Process  —  President also backs Giuliani ahead of new week of depositions in probe  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump said he has encouraged his Republican allies to defend him on the substance of the impeachment probe …

Facebook allows prominent right-wing website to break the rules  —  The Daily Wire, the right-wing website founded by pundit Ben Shapiro, is a cesspool of misogyny, bigotry, and misinformation.  Its toxic content is also fantastically successful on Facebook, with each story reaching more people than any other major media outlet.

What's Left of Condé Nast Two years after Si Newhouse died (and Graydon Carter left), Anna Wintour and a new CEO map out the future they can afford.  —  “It's dreadful,” Anna Wintour said in early October, looking out the south-facing windows of her 25th-floor office in One World Trade Center …

Capital Beat: A four-judge Supreme Court for the foreseeable future  —  The fire and fury have faded.  Months since the day the Democratic majority on the Executive Council rejected his nomination, the fight to place Gordon MacDonald on the state Supreme Court is all but over.

Barr defends Durham probe, rips Comey FBI for ‘failure of leadership’  —  EXCLUSIVE — Attorney General Bill Barr, in an interview with Fox News, defended the independence and integrity of the politically contentious probe being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham into the handling of the Russia investigation …

Mayor de Blasio's used his NYPD security detail to take his son to Yale: sources  —  Mayor de Blasio ordered his NYPD security detail to repeatedly take his son back and forth from Yale University during his first years at school, the Daily News has learned.

The Cowardly Republicans  —  Republicans are afraid to criticize the president.  That fear is rational—but there is a way to overcome it.  —  Last month, Gabriel Sherman of Vanity Fair published a piece about the internal conflicts at Fox News.  He quoted an anonymous Fox executive …

‘Lock him up’ chant highlights the debate we need about Trump's lawlessness  —  What do we do when the White House's explicit position is that the president may abuse his powers in any way he sees fit, and that no form of accountability of any kind constraining his conduct is legitimate?

Re-election runway: What U.S. airports can tell us about Trump's 2020 chances  —  Analysis: A high-altitude way of looking at America's political divide and what it means for Dems.  —  When protesters swarmed major airports like Dallas-Fort Worth, JFK and San Francisco International …

Ukrainian Oligarch Seethed About ‘Overlord’ Biden for Years  —  Dmytro Firtash's lawyers say his team had to investigate Joe Biden to defend their client.  One expert says Biden pushed reforms that cost the oligarch up to $400 million per year.  —  Indicted Ukrainian gas oligarch Dmytro Firtash spent …