Giuliani was in talks to be paid by Ukraine's top prosecutor as they together sought damaging information on Democrats  —  President Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, negotiated earlier this year to represent Ukraine's top prosecutor for at least $200,000 during the same months …

ICE arrests 90 more students at fake university in Michigan  —  (Photo: Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press)  —  About 90 additional foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested in recent months.

Russia Inquiry Review Is Expected to Undercut Trump Claim of F.B.I. Spying  —  The F.B.I. never tried to place undercover agents or informants inside the Trump campaign, a highly anticipated inspector general's report is expected to find.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's inspector general found …

Multiple Women Recall Sexual Misconduct and Retaliation by Gordon Sondland  —  Three women recall Sondland made unwanted sexual contact in business settings.  One says he exposed himself.  All recall professional retaliation after they rejected him.  Sondland denies the allegations.

Trump Tax Records Reveal New Inconsistencies — This Time for Trump Tower  —  Documents show the president's company reported different numbers — higher ones to lenders, lower ones to tax officials — for Trump's signature building.  Last month, ProPublica revealed a similar pattern in two other Trump buildings.

William Ruckelshaus, Who Quit in ‘Saturday Night Massacre,’ Dies at 87  —  As deputy attorney general he refused Nixon's order to fire the special prosecutor Archibald Cox in the Watergate scandal.  He was earlier the E.P.A.'s first leader.  —  William D. Ruckelshaus …

CNN Poll: Biden leads nationally as Buttigieg rises  —  Panelist: Biden does best when he isn't in public  —  (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead the newly expanded field of contenders for the Democratic nomination for president, with Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts …

The unmitigated ludicrousness of Trump trying to distance himself from Giuliani's work on Ukraine  —  President Trump certainly wouldn't be the first employer to retroactively try to designate a staff member as an independent contractor, but he might be the first to do so to aid his fight …

Apple changes Crimea map to meet Russian demands  —  Apple has complied with Russian demands to show Crimea as part of Russian territory on its apps.  —  Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, in a move that was condemned by most of the global community.

An alien comet from another star is soaring through our solar system  —  SEWANEE, Tenn. — Something strange is sailing toward us.  Something small and cold and extraordinarily fast.  No one knows where it came from, or where it is going.  But it's not from around here.

Trump administration to cut its financial contribution to NATO  —  Washington (CNN)The Trump administration has moved to substantially cut its contribution to NATO's collective budget according to several US and NATO officials, a symbolic move that comes as many continue to question President …

Deutsche Bank Executive Who Signed Off On Trump Loans Kills Self At Age 55  —  Thomas Bowers, a former Deutsche Bank executive and head of the American wealth-management division, killed himself in Malibu, California on Tuesday, November 19th, according to the coronor's initial report.

The Town Hall That Impeachment Blew Up  —  Moderate Democrat Mikie Sherrill returned to her district — and a wave of anger.  —  WHIPPANY, N.J.—One of Representative Mikie Sherrill's district directors began the town hall in a filled community center Monday night with her customary call for civility.

They Voted Democratic.  Now They Support Trump.  —  Two-thirds of battleground state voters who chose Trump in 2016 but selected Democrats in the midterms say they will return to the president next year.  —  Midterm victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin gave Democrats hope …

Facebook's only Dutch factchecker quits over political ad exemption  —  ‘Final straw’ was refusal to allow partner to mark dubious claims by far-right parties  —  Facebook's only Dutch factchecker has quit over the social network's refusal to allow them to highlight political lies as being false.

Opponents of Elizabeth Warren spread a doctored photo on Twitter.  Her campaign couldn't stop its spread.  —  The reaction to the tweet, viewed hundreds of times, offers a hard lesson: Homespun disinformation campaigns on social media represent a rising threat

'There's something terribly wrong': Americans are dying young at alarming rates  —  Death rates from suicide, drug overdoses, liver disease and dozens of other causes have been rising over the past decade for young and middle-aged adults, driving down overall life expectancy in the United States …

Riaboshapka fires top Ukrainian prosecutor who backed Biden conspiracy  —  Kostyantyn Kulik, a former top prosecutor accused of corruption.  —  Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka on Nov. 25 fired Kostyantyn Kulyk, a controversial top prosecutor accused of corruption and fabricating political cases.

Op-ed: Navy corruption and the Gallagher case  —  By: Sean Gallagher   14 hours ago  —  In this partisan environment, people were quick to judge President Donald J. Trump's reinstatement of anchors to my brother, Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher.

Buttigieg returns donations from lawyers who represented Brett Kavanaugh  —  Following Guardian queries, 2020 hopeful says Kavanaugh should never have been placed on supreme court  —  Pete Buttigieg's 2020 campaign is returning thousands of dollars in donations from two top Washington lawyers …

Netanyahu unleashes populist fury over indictments as party members back away  —  JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was struggling to both stoke and contain a popular backlash against prosecutors as some of his supporters distanced themselves from the bellicose rhetoric …

Trump vows not to change the name of Thanksgiving despite cries from the ‘radical left’  —  President Trump told supporters at a rally held in Sunrise, Fla., Tuesday that he wouldn't allow the “radical left” to change the name of Thanksgiving.  —  The president, who recently switched …

‘Baby Trump’ balloon makes an appearance at Florida rally — with its own security team  —  President Donald Trump arrived at his self-described “homecoming” rally at a hockey arena in suburban Broward County on Tuesday with an escort that included armored vehicles, a counter-assault team and Secret Service agents.

An open letter to Sir Richard Evans: Labour's anti-Semitism cannot be disregarded  —  In 1996, Anthony Julius and Richard Evans defended the author Deborah Lipstadt against libel accusations by the Holocaust denier David Irving.  Here, Julius responds to Evans's expression of support for the Labour leadership.

Young Republicans think GOP boomers are on the wrong side of the climate debate  —  Establishment Republicans will probably never authorize sweeping action on climate change.  The Fox News crowd is twice as likely as other Republicans to say climate change isn't caused by humans …

‘Anonymous’ vows to unveil identity as 2020 heats up  —  “Trump will hear from me, in my own name,” said the mysterious author of the famous op-ed and new book in a Reddit AMA.  —  Copies of “A Warning” by Anonymous.  Scott Olson/Getty Images  —  The anonymous Trump administration official …