One Year From Election, Trump Trails Biden but Leads Warren in Battlegrounds  —  Signs that the president's advantage in the Electoral College has persisted or even increased since 2016.  —  Despite low national approval ratings and the specter of impeachment, President Trump remains highly competitive …

All four White House officials scheduled for House inquiry depositions Monday won't testify  —  CNN analyst describes hearings: Battle of the branches  —  Washington (CNN)All four White House officials who are scheduled to give depositions on Monday during the House's impeachment inquiry won't show up …

POLITICO Playbook: Did Trump just threaten a shutdown over impeachment?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP just made this month much more ... interesting.  Speaking on the South Lawn on Sunday, the president left the door open to a government shutdown in 17 days.

Trump threatens to cut US funding for California wildfires  —  LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump is threatening to cut U.S. funding to California for aid during wildfires that have burned across the state during dry winds this fall.  —  Trump tweeted Sunday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has done a …

Trump, the phone call, and consciousness of guilt  —  The July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Vlodomyr Zelensky is the central piece of evidence in the Democratic drive to remove the president from office.  “That call was a smoking gun,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi …

Unemployment is climbing in key swing states, including Michigan and Wisconsin  —  There's been a steady increase of people coming to the St. Vincent de Paul Society's food pantry in Marinette, Wis., a small city of about 10,000 just across the border from Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Internet-Savvy Nazi Says a Bunch of Old Fashioned Nazi Shit in Leaked Tape  —  Richard Spencer, one of the most high profile neo-Nazis in America, has spent the past three years online trying to rebrand his extremist ideology with terms like “alt-right.”  But a newly leaked audio tape makes …

In China, every day is Kristallnacht  —  In China, every day is Kristallnacht.  —  Eighty-one years ago this week, in what is also known as the “Night of Broken Glass,” hundreds of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Nazi Germany were damaged or destroyed, along with thousands of Jewish-owned businesses.

In No Safe Spaces, an Odd Couple Teams Up to Fight Free-Speech Bans  —  Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager join figures across the political spectrum to examine the plague of censorship and groupthink emanating from college campuses.  —  The pro-free-speech documentary No Safe Spaces …

Billionaires Only?  Warren Errs in Saying Whom Her Health Plan Would Tax  —  The Massachusetts senator told reporters that her plan to pay for “Medicare for all” would raise taxes only on billionaires, but that differs from the proposal she unveiled on Friday.

How an impeached Trump wins  —  President Trump is showing how he could be impeached, survive and still win re-election, something never done before in American history.  —  Between the lines: Trump officials think two things must unfold for this to happen: Republicans must stay unified …

Behind the scenes: How Trump still gets his NYT and WaPo fix  —  If you were skeptical that President Trump would give up his lifelong habit of reading the New York Times, you were right to be.  —  Driving the news: Sources familiar with the president's iPhone told Axios that the president maintains …

Nearly two-thirds of US voters say Trump has not made them better off  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they are not better off financially than they were when Donald Trump was elected, casting doubt on whether economic expansion and a record bull market will boost the president's re-election campaign in 2020.

Norway arrests US white supremacist ahead of far-right conference  —  (CNN)Norwegian authorities have arrested a high-profile American white supremacist, hours before he was due to give a speech at a far-right conference in Oslo on Saturday.  —  The detained American, Greg Johnson …

Trump's false claim of ‘centuries’ of fighting between Turks and Kurds  —  “If Syria wants to fight for their land, that's up to Turkey and Syria, as it has been for hundreds of years, they've been fighting.  And the Kurds have been fighting for hundreds of years — that whole mess.

After decades visiting his parents in prison, this lawyer wants to be San Francisco's next DA  —  Editor's note: The reporter is a former New York City prosecutor and has a parent who was formerly incarcerated.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Chesa Boudin spared no time after deplaning the redeye from California.

The Trump campaign holds a lot of contests.  Does anyone win?  —  The Trump campaign has held at least 15 contests since 2018 offering the chance to win breakfast, lunch, or dinner with President Trump.  Supporters are enticed to donate to Trump's campaign with promises of free travel …

Trump could get whacked by legal losses in coming months  —  The final year of President Donald Trump's first term will be loaded with legal landmines — and it's not just the impeachment cases.  —  Trump could face court rulings that say he is illegally profiting from foreign governments …

Manafort Spread Ukraine Conspiracy Theory Months Before 2016 Election  —  Documents from the special counsel's inquiry show that President Trump's former campaign chairman shared the theory shortly after stolen Democratic emails were published that June.  —  WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort …