A Mysterious ‘-1’ and Other Call Records Show How Giuliani Pressured Ukraine  —  House Democrats' impeachment report showed the president's personal lawyer executing an irregular foreign policy.  —  WASHINGTON — In the two days before President Trump forced out the American ambassador to Ukraine in April …

NATO leaders appear to gossip about Trump in unguarded chat  —  In this grab taken from video on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, France's President Emmanuel Macro, centre right, gestures as he speaks during a NATO reception.  While NATO leaders are professing unity as they gather for a summit near London …

William Barr Says Those Who Don't Show More Respect To Cops May Not Get Police Protection  —  The remarks are the latest example of the U.S. attorney general's “tough on crime” approach that President Donald Trump has adopted.  —  U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday …

Former official says Trump often refused to believe his intelligence briefings  —  (CNN)One of President Donald Trump's most common responses to intelligence briefings is to doubt what he's being told, former Deputy Director of Intelligence Susan Gordon said Tuesday.

California CEO and Seven Others Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Conduit Campaign Contribution Case  —  Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed against the CEO of an online payment processing company, and seven others, charging them with conspiring to make and conceal conduit …

Biden struts as his rivals bite the dust  —  MASON CITY, Iowa — Joe Biden's feeling awfully confident these days.  —  The former vice president thinks he doesn't need Barack Obama to win the primary.  He seemed to mock the ideas that there's enthusiasm for Elizabeth Warren or that Pete Buttigieg came up with his own plans.

Sen. John Kennedy's full-Trump mode is just his latest stage persona  —  Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, now all over the news after a volatile verbal exchange with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, is a habitual shape-shifter.  Pundits disappointed that the Oxford-educated media hound …

A letter from Larry and Sergey  —  Our very first founders' letter in our 2004 S-1 began: … We believe those central tenets are still true today.  The company is not conventional and continues to make ambitious bets on new technology, especially with our Alphabet structure.

Trump Administration to Stiffen Food-Stamp Work Requirement  —  Rule limiting state discretion could make hundreds of thousands ineligible for assistance  —  The Trump administration is set to tighten work requirements for recipients of federal food aid, potentially rendering hundreds …

How McKinsey Helped the Trump Administration Carry Out Its Immigration Policies  —  Newly uncovered documents show the consulting giant helped ICE find “detention savings opportunities” — including measures the agency's staff sometimes viewed as too harsh on immigrants.

Iran in flames and ‘experts’ didn't foresee it due to Trump-hate blindness  —  The Iranian regime faces the most serious popular challenge to its tyranny in 40 years.  Sparked by a 50 percent hike in fuel prices last month, the uprising has spread to the whole country.

Trump's Approval Rating Should Worry Republicans  —  If the president remains this unpopular, it's hard to see him helping his party in the 2020 elections.  —  It's still early to project how next year's congressional elections will go.  But the folks at Inside Elections have updated …

U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins tangled in voter fraud, perjury allegations for listing UPS store as residence  —  U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins' decision to sign a Kansas voter registration form and two other election documents that asserted his residential address was a United Parcel Service store in Topeka …

Life Under the Algorithm  —  Henry Noll was one of the most famous workers in American history, though not by his own choice and not under his own name.  Employed at Bethlehem Steel for $1.15 a day, and known among workmates for his physical vigor and thriftiness, Noll was …

Liberal Veterans' Group Endorses Pete Buttigieg in 2020 Race  —  VoteVets is the first major organization to endorse the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who served in Afghanistan with the Navy.  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — VoteVets, the political action committee that backs liberal veterans running for office …

“Trump Was Pissed”: Rudy Given Fox Time-Out After “Insurance” Diss  —  Giuliani's loopy sound bites and Ukraine business ambitions have gotten under Trump's skin; the Haley-for-V.P. campaign seems to have fizzled.  —  For more than a year, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have been part …

Democrat ‘Expert’ Impeachment Witness Gave $1000 Donation to Elizabeth Warren  —  Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan, one of three expert witnesses called by Democrats to testify on the first day of the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry, donated $1000 to the presidential campaign …