‘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 …

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

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.

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 …

Mitt Romney: a solitary GOP voice battling Trump for the soul of the Republican Party  —  Ledyard King Christal HayesUSA TODAY  —  WASHINGTON - When Sen. Mitt Romney met with constituents this month in his home state of Utah, he didn't shy away from the topic that has put him in the national spotlight …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

You don't have to break a law to be impeached.  Trump's defenders need a better argument.  —  The Founders made clear that an impeachable or convictable offense need not be a crime.  Hamilton said it applied to ‘the misconduct of public men.’  —  CONNECT

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.

Greg Walden to retire in latest sign of GOP doubts about retaking House  —  Rep. Greg Walden, the top Republican on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, will retire at the end of this Congress, the veteran lawmaker announced Monday.  —  The 62-year-old Walden …

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 …

‘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?