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 …

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.

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 …

William D. Ruckelshaus, who refused to join in Nixon's ‘Saturday Night Massacre,’ dies at 87  —  William D. Ruckelshaus, a pragmatic and resolute government official who shaped the Environmental Protection Agency in the early 1970s as its first administrator and returned to the agency …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Judge delays Flynn sentencing to wait for Russia IG report  —  The former Trump national security adviser gets another reprieve on his punishment.  —  Michael Flynn, former National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump.  Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

POLITICO Playbook: Will Trump participate now?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WE HAVE SOME INTEL TO REPORT about the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, but we are going to do so with this caveat: Nailing down this White House is like trying to tack Jell-O to a wall.

Liberals Do Not Want to Destroy the Family  —  Or society, for that matter.  How did this preposterous idea leap to the forefront of conservative thinking?  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.

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 …

White House adviser Stephen Miller remains undaunted after leak of emails tying him to white nationalist talking points  —  In case there were any doubts over his White House standing, Stephen Miller offered his critics the ultimate power move Tuesday as he boarded Air Force …

‘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 …

China hopes Trump will be reelected: He's ‘easy to read’  —  BEIJING — President Trump has called out China for unfair trading practices, labeled the country a “threat to the world” and described leader Xi Jinping as an enemy.  —  Yet he recently congratulated the Communist Party on 70 years in power …