‘Fireside chat on live television’: Trump says he wants to read Ukraine call transcript to American people  —  A defiant President Trump signaled he will not cooperate with the Democratic Party's impeachment proceedings, insisting his telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was …

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 …

Warren Leads Tight Iowa Race as Biden Fades, Poll Finds  —  Ms. Warren garnered 22 percent in a New York Times/Siena College poll, to 19 percent for Bernie Sanders.  Pete Buttigieg has surged, while Mr. Biden's travails have put the race in flux.  —  Which of these Democrats would be your first choice in the Iowa caucuses?

Americans sharply divided over whether to impeach and remove Trump from office, Post-ABC poll finds  —  As the House moves to a new, more public phase of its impeachment inquiry, the country is sharply divided along partisan lines over whether President Trump should be impeached and removed from office …

Trump, Lifelong New Yorker, Declares Himself a Resident of Florida  —  The president filed a “declaration of domicile” last month saying that his property in Palm Beach will be his permanent residence.  —  He came of age in Queens, built Trump Tower, starred in “The Apprentice,” …

Castro reaches $800,000 fundraising goal and is staying in the race  —  Julián Castro: Police violence is also gun violence  —  (CNN)Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro raised $800,000 in the last 10 days of October, a fundraising figure that he said was necessary in order to continue his campaign.

Texas voters evenly split on impeachment of Donald Trump, UT/TT Poll finds  —  Texas voters are divided on whether the president should be removed from office, but nearly half think impeachment investigations should proceed, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.

U.S. added a solid 128,000 jobs in October despite GM strike  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added a solid 128,000 jobs in October, a figure that was held down by a now-settled strike against General Motors that caused several thousand workers to be temporarily counted as unemployed.

The Mavening of Sportswriting  —  Deadspin staffers resigned this week after a dispute with management.  Like so many other publications, the future will bring an undead version of the site.  —  You've been waiting for it, haven't you?  Wondering whether it'll turn up next to an old Drew Magary Funbag.

Keystone pipeline spills more than 350,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota  —  The Keystone pipeline has spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into North Dakota this week, The New York Times reports.  —  The pipeline has leaked roughly 383,000 gallons of crude oil …

Trump abandons proposing ideas to curb gun violence after saying he would following mass shootings  —  President Trump has abandoned the idea of releasing proposals to combat gun violence that his White House debated for months following mass shootings in August, according to White House officials …

Why the Impeachment Fight Is Even Scarier Than You Think  —  For decades, Republicans and Democrats fought over the same things: Whose values and policies work best for American democracy.  But now, those age-old fights are changing.  What was once run-of-the-mill partisan competition …

GOP Voters Are More Split On The Substance Of The Ukraine Scandal Than On Penalizing Trump For It  —  Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup.  —  Polls of the week  —  Very few Republican voters favor the impeachment and removal of President Trump — only about 11 percent, according to our impeachment polls tracker.

Trump Is Committing ‘Felony Bribery’ by Giving Fundraising Cash to GOP Senators Ahead of Impeachment Trial: Ex-Bush Ethics Lawyer  —  Attorney Richard Painter, who served as the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, warned on Thursday that President Donald Trump appeared …

Professors, Beware.  A ‘Student Information Officer’ Might Be Watching.  —  CHENGDU, China — With a neon-red backpack and white Adidas shoes, he looks like any other undergraduate on the campus of Sichuan University in southwestern China.  —  But Peng Wei, a 21-year-old chemistry major …

How Deadspin Imploded  —  The last meeting for many of Deadspin's journalists took place on Wednesday in a conference room adorned with fake black cobwebs, a large spider and bloody handprints beside the words: “HELP US.”  —  The plea, it seemed, went unanswered.

The GOP's defense of Trump has me sinking into cynicism  —  Unless you were paying close attention, you might have missed one of the most illuminating moments so far in President Trump's impeachment saga.  —  During Army Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman's testimony Tuesday …

In Ukraine, the quid pro quo may have started long before the phone call  —  A standard theme in detective thrillers is that the perpetrator feels compelled to return to the scene of the crime.  It's an irrational urge, and readers of such potboilers are often left wondering whether the protagonist secretly wants to get caught.

She was called the n-word and given instructions to slit her wrists.  What did Facebook do?  —  (CNN)You can call someone the n-word and give her graphic instructions on how to kill herself, and you won't get kicked off Facebook.  —  Or you can tell a mother you hope her son gets raped …

Johnson accused of withholding key report on Russia from voters  —  Fears that report into security threat posed by Russia may not be published before election  —  Downing Street has been accused of sitting on an explosive parliamentary report on the security threat posed by Russia to the UK …