The Mueller Report's Secret Memos  —  BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Mueller's team kept secret.  Today we are publishing the first installment.  —  The 448-page report issued by then-special counsel Robert Mueller last March …

Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump's border wall  —  SAN DIEGO — Smuggling gangs in Mexico have repeatedly sawed through new sections of President Trump's border wall in recent months by using commercially available power tools, opening gaps large enough for people and drug loads …

A presidential loathing for Ukraine is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry  —  Three of President Trump's top advisers met with him in the Oval Office in May, determined to convince him that the new Ukrainian leader was an ally deserving of U.S. support.

Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track  — Speaker questions appeal of Medicare For All, Green New Deal  — Ideas could repel voters in swing Midwestern states, she says  —  Nancy Pelosi is issuing a pointed message to Democrats running for president in 2020 …

Children were told to ‘build the wall’ at White House Halloween party  —  WASHINGTON — A Halloween party on Oct. 25 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building featured candy, paper airplanes and — concerning for some attendees — a station where children were encouraged to help “Build the Wall” with their own personalized bricks.

In Trump's Twitter Feed: Conspiracy-Mongers, Racists and Spies  —  In September, an obscure Twitter account promoting a fringe belief about an anti-Trump cabal within the government tweeted out a hashtag: #FakeWhistleblower.  —  It was typical for the anonymous account …

Tucker Carlson's Very Creepy Smear Of Adam Schiff: Impeachment In ‘Steamy, Unhinged Letters Using His Own Body Fluids’  —  Fox's Tucker Carlson probably grossed out a large number of viewers with what he must have imagined was a hilarious smear of Rep. Adam Schiff over impeachment.  —  Views:

Those People We Tried to Cancel?  They're All Hanging Out Together  —  Depriving people of a platform works — in unexpected ways.  —  Katie Herzog was a largely unknown freelance journalist living in Seattle.  Then she published an article in The Stranger about trans people who halt or reverse transitions.

Donald Trump Jr. Has a Few Grievances to Air in Upcoming Book  — President's oldest son also shares some personal anecdotes  — Video-gaming with Michael Jackson; debating Obama's Nobel  —  The president's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., airs some of the family's grievances over the probe …

Virginia Is On The Brink Of Cementing Its Democratic Status  —  Republicans risk losing their last footholds of power in the Old Dominion.  —  Democrats are poised to take control of both of Virginia's state legislative chambers on Tuesday, bringing the state under unified Democratic control for the first time in a quarter century.

GOP worries banned political ads could upend Trump's 2020 campaign  —  Top Republicans are privately worried about a new threat to President Trump's campaign: the possibility of Facebook pulling a Twitter and banning political ads.  —  Why it matters: Facebook says it won't, but future regulatory pressure could change that.

Adam Neumann and the Art of Failing Up  —  WeWork's chief risk-taker found a kindred spirit with an open checkbook: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son.  Now he's walking away from the wreckage with more than $1 billion.  —  Adam Neumann stood on the 57th floor of the Woolworth Building …

Elizabeth Warren Asked What Will Happen To Health Insurance Workers Under Medicare-For-All, Claims They'll Work In Car Insurance  —  About 600,000 people work in the health and medical insurance industry in the United States, according to market research firm IBIS World.

California Governor Threatens State Takeover of PG&E  —  Gavin Newsom says state may intervene if shareholders, bondholders cannot quickly reach a deal to exit bankruptcy  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening a state takeover of PG&E Corp. unless the company exits bankruptcy …

Fact check: Trump lies about CNN at Mississippi rally  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump stood before thousands of supporters in Mississippi on Friday night, squinted and pointed, and told them he was seeing something that was not actually happening.  —  Trump criticized CNN at length at his campaign rally in Tupelo.

The Hard Questions About Young People and Gender Transitions  —  Earlier this week, I met a group of women in their early 20s who are not supposed to exist.  —  They're women who, in their teens, realized that they were actually men, socially transitioned to the other sex …

Hero dog ‘Conan’ injured during Baghdadi raid deserves purple heart: vets  —  It's a barking shame.  —  A heroic Belgian Malinois who chased down Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last week and was wounded after the ISIS boss blew himself up with a suicide vest will not receive a Purple Heart.

Baton attack during June protests in downtown Portland lands man in prison for nearly 6 years  —  June 29 2019 downtown Portland baton attack  —  A 24-year-old man who hit another man over the head with a baton in June during dueling downtown Portland demonstrations was sentenced Friday to nearly six years in prison.