Trump's Defenders Have No Defense  —  Witnesses were uneven, but even his closest allies don't try to deny he did what he's accused of doing.  —  Look, the case has been made.  Almost everything in the impeachment hearings this week fleshed out and backed up the charge that President Trump muscled Ukraine for political gain.

Exclusive: Former FBI lawyer under investigation after allegedly altering document in 2016 Russia probe  —  Washington (CNN)A former FBI lawyer is under criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document related to 2016 surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser, several people briefed on the matter told CNN.

Impeachment is about to get a Robert Mueller reprise  —  Right now, impeachment is all about Ukraine.  But after Thanksgiving, prepare for a Robert Mueller reprise.  —  Now that House Democrats have wrapped up public hearings on President Donald Trump's pressure campaign to get Ukraine …

Trump's GOP defenders cannot be shamed.  It's time to try this instead.  —  If there is one widely shared conclusion about the impeachment hearings that have just concluded, it's that President Trump's GOP defenders were never “gettable.”  —  This idea has been repeated countless times in recent days …

Jake Tapper: Trump is trying to ‘gaslight the country’  —  CNN's Jake Tapper thinks fact-checking Donald Trump is no longer enough — and he's created an hourlong special exploring the effects on foreign policy, business and the national culture of the president's compulsive lying.

Trump Pushes Debunked Ukraine Theory In Long, Rambling Call To ‘Fox & Friends’  —  The nearly hourlong phone call on the president's favorite morning show devolved into a soliloquy.  —  President Donald Trump on Friday pushed a false right-wing conspiracy theory roundly debunked by U.S. officials …

AG Barr: Epstein's death was a ‘perfect storm of screw-ups’  —  1 of 6  —  ABOARD A US GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT (AP) — Attorney General William Barr says Jeffrey Epstein's death was the result of a “perfect storm of screw-ups.”  —  Barr's comments in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press come days …

Trump says he might veto legislation that aims to protect human rights in Hong Kong because bill would impact China trade talks  —  The legislation easily passed Congress with a veto-proof majority  —  President Trump suggested on Friday that he might veto legislation designed …

Trump again lashes out at Yovanovitch  —  The president also attacked her in real time when she testified last week.  —  President Donald Trump.  Mark Wilson/Getty Images  —  President Donald Trump unleashed fresh attacks on Marie Yovanovitch Friday, the former U.S. ambassador he ousted …

Shepard Smith Uses a Post-Fox Spotlight to Defend Freedom of the Press  —  The former anchor made his first public appearance since his abrupt departure from Fox News, where he faced taunts from colleagues and President Trump.  —  In his first public remarks since abruptly resigning …

Jim Jordan was imposed on us for egregiously partisan reasons.  Now he's afflicting the nation.  —  CLEVELAND — Of all the regions in all the states in all the country, Jim Jordan got dragged into ours.  There was no good reason to punish Greater Cleveland by making the person who's …

The Jungle Prince of Delhi  —  For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital.  It was a tragic, astonishing story.  But was it true?  —  NEW DELHI — On a spring afternoon in 2016 …

Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook  —  Accepting an award from the Anti-Defamation League, the comedian called Facebook “the greatest propaganda machine in history.”  —  Sacha Baron Cohen accepted the International Leadership Award …

Parnas Attended Giuliani's Madrid Meeting With Zelensky Aide  —  Parnas was at the table for a meeting where Giuliani pressured a senior Ukrainian official to investigate a company linked to the Bidens, the official told The Daily Beast.  —  When Rudy Giuliani met with a senior Ukrainian official …

Trump and His Corrupt Old Party  —  For Republicans, there is no bottom.  —  Formally, the House of Representatives is holding an inquiry into the question of whether Donald J. Trump should be impeached.  In reality, we've known the answer to that question for a long time.

Ambassador Sondland's slick move  —  By many accounts, Gordon Sondland delivered the most consequential testimony of the House Democrats' rushed public impeachment proceedings.  Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, testified in the impeachment hearings Wednesday.

Trump says Pompeo would run for Senate if GOP in danger of losing Kansas seat  —  President Donald Trump acknowledged on Friday that his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, is mulling a run for Senate in Kansas next year.  —  In a lengthy phone interview with Fox & Friends, Trump said Pompeo would …

The Road That Brought Conservatives and Republicans to This Point  —  At some point in your development, probably in your younger years, you stepped into the world of politics out of curiosity and it lit something within you.  While lots of your peers found it boring, you started to feel like it was grand crusade in the best sense.

Most Washingtonians want a new Redskins stadium on RFK site but not the bill, Post poll finds  —  A majority of Washingtonians support building a new Redskins stadium on the RFK Stadium site, but most don't want to use taxpayer dollars to help pay for it, according to a Washington Post poll.