White House Ukraine Expert Sought to Correct Transcript of Trump Call  —  Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, who heard President Trump's July phone call with Ukraine's president and was alarmed, testified that he tried and failed to add key details to the rough transcript.

READ: Ukraine Specialist Catherine Croft's Written Testimony In Impeachment Inquiry  —  Catherine Croft, a State Department employee who previously worked on Ukraine issues for the National Security Council, is testifying in the House impeachment inquiry on Wednesday.

Mitch McConnell's extraordinary efforts to say nothing at all  —  (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell went to extraordinary lengths Tuesday to avoid giving substantive answers to direct questions about the allegations made by Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the first current White House official …

Mulvaney was left in the dark on al-Baghdadi operation  —  President Trump's acting chief of staff first learned of the raid when it was already underway, raising questions about his status in the White House.  —  WASHINGTON — Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney first learned …

Turkey summons US ambassador over Armenian genocide resolution  —  Turkey has summoned the U.S. ambassador after lawmakers in Washington voted to recognize Ottoman-era mass killings of Armenians as a genocide and called for sanctions against Ankara.  —  On Tuesday, the U.S. House …

Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicide, Dr. Michael Baden reveals  —  The body of disgraced money man and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his Manhattan federal prison cell in August, bore telltale signs of homicide despite …

Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows  —  Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world's great coastal cities.  —  The authors of a paper published Tuesday developed …

The US economy is slowing  —  New York (CNN Business)The US economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.9% in the third quarter, the Commerce Department announced Wednesday.  —  This is the preliminary reading of US gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the American economy.

White House Finds Loophole in Search for Homeland Security Secretary  —  Officials who lead agencies in the department and echo the president's language on immigration were initially thought to be ineligible under a federal law.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House has found a way to bypass …

Trump Wants You to Know He's Smart and Capable Enough to ‘Do Quid Pro Quo’  —  Everyone should just stop saying he's too dumb or incompetent to commit crimes—he could totally pull them off if he wanted to, Trump has been complaining privately.  —  As Donald Trump gets dragged deeper …

Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat  —  The President of the United States amplified a tweet calling one of his diplomats a liar—and, by implication, absolving a Ukrainian gas mogul of any mob ties.  —  President Donald Trump boosted a tweet Monday promoting …

House Democrats unveil new rules to end Republican shenanigans in impeachment hearings  —  House Democrats just unveiled a formal resolution of impeachment inquiry that will create a new and different way of holding public hearings that appears guaranteed to end Republican grandstanding and games.

When JFK Was Trump  —  Have we ever had a president before this one who so disdains the advice and policies of those who have spent their lives working for the government he leads?  Have we ever had a chief executive who is so skeptical of the judgments of career diplomats and military leaders …

Brexit deal would leave Wales-sized hole in UK economy, experts warn  —  LONDON — Boris Johnson's Brexit deal would leave a hole in the U.K. economy the size of Wales, economists warned.  —  The agreement struck between the U.K. government and Brussels will leave gross domestic product 3 …

Fox's Jason Chaffetz says two days isn't enough time for congressional Republicans to read the eight page impeachment resolution  —  Chaffetz: “She said they're going to vote on Thursday, but it's Tuesday.  So, do the math”

Keeping it “real”  —  On Monday, Popular Information revealed how The Daily Wire, a toxic right-wing website, has been able to achieve phenomenal success on Facebook, in part, through gaming the system.  The investigation revealed “a clandestine network of 14 large Facebook pages that purport …

U.S. set to disappoint Asia with downgraded delegation for Bangkok summits  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has downgraded its participation in back-to-back Asia-Pacific summits in Bangkok next week, a move bound to disappoint Asian partners worried by China's expanding influence.

Trans Athletes Are Posting Victories and Shaking Up Sports  —  Transgender athletes at all levels of sport are winning medals, spurring a contentious debate over the future of gendered competition.  —  Transgender athletes are having a moment.  At all levels of sport, they're stepping onto the podium and into the headlines.