Here's the Proof that Trump's “No Quid Pro Quo” Call Never Happened  —  At the heart of the impeachment inquiry, members of Congress may have been mistakenly led to believe that there were two phone calls between President Donald Trump and Ambassador Gordon Sondland in early September …

How Kamala Harris's Campaign Unraveled  —  Ms. Harris is the only 2020 Democrat who has fallen hard out of the top tier of candidates.  She has proved to be an uneven campaigner who changes her message and tactics to little effect and has a staff torn into factions.

Ohio bill orders doctors to ‘reimplant ectopic pregnancy’ or face ‘abortion murder’ charges  —  Ohio introduces one of the most extreme bills to date for a procedure that does not exist in medical science  —  A bill to ban abortion introduced in the Ohio state legislature requires doctors to …

Trump has turned the suburbs into a GOP disaster zone.  Does that doom his reelection?  —  For decades, there was an unvaried rhythm to life in America's suburbs: Carpool in the morning, watch sports on weekends, barbecue in the summer, vote Republican in November.  —  Then came President Trump.

London Bridge: Two killed in stabbing attack  —  Two members of the public have died after a stabbing attack at London Bridge, in which police also shot dead the suspect.  —  The Met Police has declared the attack a terrorist incident.  —  The suspect, who died at the scene …

Trump Is First to Use PATRIOT Act to Detain a Man Forever  —  Never in 18 years has the government used Section 412 of the PATRIOT Act, which permits indefinite detention of resident aliens on national-security grounds.  Until now.  —  For the 18-year lifespan of the war on terrorism …

White House ‘Obstruction’ of Impeachment ‘Worse’ than Nixon During Watergate, Says Former Acting Solicitor General  —  An Obama-era acting solicitor general of the United States has argued that the White House is “engaged in unprecedented obstruction” of the Ukraine probe.

Warren Wealth Tax Has Wide Support, Except Among One Group  —  Senator Elizabeth Warren's plan to tax the assets of America's wealthiest individuals continues to draw broad support from voters, across party, gender and educational lines.  Only one slice of the electorate opposes it staunchly: Republican men with college degrees.

Republican running to challenge Rep. Ilhan Omar has Twitter account permanently suspended  —  (CNN)A Republican candidate running to challenge Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota had her Twitter account permanently suspended for repeated violations of Twitter rules, according to a Twitter spokesperson.

Georgia gov expected to tap finance exec to US Senate next week  —  Gov. Brian Kemp plans to tap financial executive Kelly Loeffler to a U.S. Senate seat next week as he pushes to expand the Georgia GOP's appeal to women who have fled the party in recent years.

Iraq's PM announces he'll resign amid worsening crisis  —  1 of 6  —  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said Friday he would submit his resignation to parliament, a day after more than 40 people were killed by security forces and following calls by Iraq's top Shiite cleric for lawmakers to withdraw support.

Why Baby Yoda should scare Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick  —  Baby Yoda, the juggernaut character from Disney+'s Star Wars series “The Mandalorian,” is driving almost twice as many average social media interactions on news stories about it as any 2020 Democrat, according to data from NewsWhip exclusively provided to Axios.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest Of United States Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evading Sanctions  —  Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, John Brown …

There's at least one Republican who's not afraid to stand up to Trump  —  NEW YORK — It takes either a brave man or a delusional one to mount a primary challenge against a president with 90 percent approval in his own party.  That's what former Massachusetts governor William Weld has done in taking on President Trump.

2020 US presidential election is Trump's to lose, says BET founder Bob Johnson  — The next U.S. presidential election is Donald Trump's to lose despite some polls suggesting the president is behind several of his potential Democratic challengers, entrepreneur and media mogul Robert Johnson said.

2 big things that could save or sink Trump in 2020  —  President Donald Trump needs two big achievements to keep markets and the economy as glittering assets in his challenging 2020 reelection bid: passage of a new NAFTA and a trade deal with China.  —  But Democrats are stringing him along …

NATO spending tweak lets Berlin push back on Trump  —  Germany can now tell Donald Trump that Berlin pays as much as Washington for NATO operations.  —  That boast is not quite as impressive as it sounds, as it relates to a change in formula for the alliance's common funding …

In Afghanistan, Trump Creates Confusion Over U.S. Policy on Taliban  —  During a Thanksgiving visit with troops, the president called for a cease-fire with the Taliban in stalled talks that he said were back on — something his negotiators had deemed unrealistic.

Behind Trump's secret war-zone trip: A Mar-a-Lago escape, a twin Air Force One and a Twitter plan  —  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump started his day like so many others at his south Florida resort: a relaxing round of golf, a few sharp tweets and then a White House announcement that he'd be staying in for the evening.