Beto O'Rourke Drops Out of the Presidential Race  —  The former Texas congressman, who energized Democrats in a Senate race last year, began his White House run to great fanfare but failed to build significant support.  —  Former Representative Beto O'Rourke of Texas announced that he is dropping …

Testimony: White House lawyer told Vindman not to discuss Ukraine call  —  The senior White House lawyer who placed a record of President Donald Trump's July 25 call with Ukraine's president in a top-secret system also instructed at least one official who heard the call not to tell anyone about it …

Growing number of GOP senators consider acknowledging Trump's quid pro quo on Ukraine  —  A growing number of Senate Republicans are ready to acknowledge that President Trump used U.S. military aid as leverage to force Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his family …

Warren's $52T ‘Medicare-for-all’ plan revealed: Campaign still claims no middle-class tax hikes needed  —  EXCLUSIVE: Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's long-awaited “Medicare-for-all” funding plan projects the government-run health care system would cost a staggering sum of …

'It's like nothing we have come across before': UK intelligence officials shaken by Trump administration's requests for help with counter-impeachment inquiry  —  As impeachment inquiries heat up, president's people are busy pursuing a counter offensive aimed at discrediting Mueller's findings that Russia interfered in 2016 election

'I'm the best-paid interpreter in the world': Indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas touted windfall from Ukrainian oligarch  —  New York (CNN)Earlier this year, Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, received a sudden windfall of money from a prominent Ukrainian oligarch …

Exclusive: U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok - sources  —  NEW YORK/BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co's $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly …

Kamala Harris closes campaign offices and fires staff in New Hampshire  —  (CNN)Sen. Kamala Harris is closing three of her four presidential campaign offices in New Hampshire and has fired all her field organizers in the state as she homes in on her struggling campaign in Iowa, an aide tells CNN.

Progressive Latino pollster: 98% of Latinos do not identify with “Latinx” label  —  One of the greatest challenges facing marketing departments and political campaigns today is the inability to discern signals from noise.  As a professional market researcher, I see this on a daily basis.

Trump refuses to defend Mick Mulvaney, heightening indications chief of staff on the way out  —  President Trump declined to defend embattled acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, an indication he is considering a change.  —  Asked during an Oval Office interview with the Washington Examiner …

The ‘Whimpering’ Terrorist Only Trump Seems to Have Heard  —  President Trump offered a vivid account of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “crying and screaming” in the final minutes before his death.  The only problem: No one else knows what he's talking about.

Revealed: Trump wanted to build a megachurch  —  Of all the projects real estate mogul Donald Trump wanted to build, here's one that nobody saw.  —  According to his long-time personal pastor, Paula White-Cain, Trump, in 2006 was taking steps to build a glass cathedral.

Devin Nunes in Twitter lawsuit demands emails from Democratic strategist  —  Rep. Devin Nunes wants to compel a former Democratic National Committee employee and a Democrat-supporting law firm to turn over their communications with anonymous writers who criticize him on Twitter.

'Why I'm Leaving New York,' by Donald Trump  —  When you have great and unmatched wisdom like me, it's not so hard to see the beginnings of things, and it is not hard to see the ends of things, either.  Pretty easy, actually!  Everything is easy for me because I have a great brain …

Apple Podcasts Preview  —  The impeachment of Donald Trump is one of the biggest political stories of our lifetimes.  It's a test of whether accountability, election integrity, and the rules of our democracy can withstand the corrupt acts of powerful people.  It's also a story that's unfolding at such a break-neck pace, it's absurd.

In His Dealings with Ukraine, Did Donald Trump Commit a Crime?  —  It's long been clear that Presidents can be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors” that are not actual violations of federal criminal law.  In an oft-cited passage from Federalist No. 65, Alexander Hamilton wrote …

K Street's newest star built business on dubious claims of Trump ties  —  Since President Trump took office, the lobbyist Michael Esposito has been wildly successful, turning a family business that once focused on municipal transportation issues into one of the fastest-growing lobbying firms in Washington.

The New Republic's Newest Editor Moves Left  —  Chris Lehmann is The New Republic's fifth editor in five years.  A veteran of The Baffler, Lehmann is taking advantage of the resurgence of leftism to build a magazine that's part politics Twitter and part Old Gawker, with a staff to match.

Johnson and Cummings under fire as police hand criminal evidence on Vote Leave to prosecution agency  —  Exclusive: After 16-month investigation, Met Police refer Vote Leave to the CPS for possible criminal charges.  But will the timing of the election mean further delay?

DHS official Wolf named acting head of Homeland Security  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has named Chad Wolf to be the next acting head of Homeland Security, the fifth person in the job for this administration.  —  While speaking to reporters Friday outside the White House en route …

Impeachment investigators ask Rick Perry to testify  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Rick Perry is being called to testify in the House impeachment inquiry.  —  Perry, the first member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet who has been asked to appear before House investigators …

Ghislaine Maxwell Was a Guest at Jeff Bezos's Secret Book Retreat  —  Motherboard has learned Jeffrey Epstein's alleged fixer attended the Amazon CEO's exclusive book retreat ‘Campfire’ last year.  —  Every fall, the elite of the literary world and Hollywood convene at a highly secretive …

What Trump might gain as newest Florida Man  —  TALLAHASSEE — President Donald Trump's decision to become a resident of the nation's largest swing state took New Yorkers and Floridians by surprise — but maybe it shouldn't have.  Trump announced his move in a series of Thursday night tweets …

2020 Meme Team, Assemble … A long time ago, on a different internet — where Photoshopped images of “God Emperor” Donald Trump riding atop a velociraptor were just a faint glimmer in a young meme lord's eye — the Republicans were in trouble.  Barack Obama's 2008 win over John McCain was heralded as a digital over an analog.

Impeach Trump.  Then Move On.  —  Stop distracting from the core issue, elite negligence and national decline.  —  Is it possible that more than 20 Republican senators will vote to convict Donald Trump of articles of impeachment?  When you hang around Washington you get the sense that it could happen.