Boris Johnson Is Showing Western Politicians How to Win  —  The sea of Tory blue seats that now envelop Labour's heartlands on the electoral map of Britain is one kind of future for Western democracies.  Unleashed by a revolt by ordinary people to take back control of their own laws …

Supreme Court agrees to consider whether Trump's tax records should be released  —  By granting review of these cases now, the justices made it possible for them to be heard during the current court term.  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear President Donald Trump's appeal …

On impeachment, Democrats can put Republicans on defense.  Here's how.  —  When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blithely suggested on Fox News that he will conduct the Senate impeachment trial in full collusion with President Trump's legal team, he handed Democrats a big opening.

Judge orders state to purge more than 200,000 Wisconsin voters from the rolls … (Photo: Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)  —  PORT WASHINGTON - An Ozaukee County judge on Friday ordered the state to remove hundreds of thousands of people from Wisconsin's voter rolls because they may have moved.

A Great Big Gift Not on Trump's Disclosure Form: Giuliani's Legal Advice  —  For the past 20 months, President Trump has received free personal legal services from one of America's highest-paid lawyers, who has traveled around the country and across the ocean to defend him in the special counsel's inquiry …

Bernie Sanders Retracts Endorsement of Cenk Uygur After Criticism  —  Mr. Sanders had said Mr. Uygur was “a voice we desperately need in Congress.”  But many Democrats condemned the endorsement, citing Mr. Uygur's history of offensive comments.  —  LOS ANGELES — Can an endorsement be put back in the bottle?

The case for impeachment  —  The House has enough reason to justify the impeachment of President Donald Trump.  —  With reluctance, we conclude the U.S. House of Representatives has enough reason to justify the impeachment of President Donald Trump.  We harbor no illusions …

One House Democrat goes on record opposing Trump impeachment  —  Eight other lawmakers in competitive districts are currently on the fence ahead of the full House vote, according to an NBC News tally.  —  House Democrats hailing from conservative swing districts are all lining up to vote …

EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden to be a daddy for the FIFTH time!  New South African wife of VP's son is seen with a baby bump amid his messy paternity case and concerns over barrage of attacks from Trump loyalists  — Hunter Biden's new wife Melissa Cohen Biden, 32, is pregnant and in her second trimester, DailyMailTV can reveal

Shocking moment school bus bullies pummel 14-year-old boy leaving him hospitalized with head injuries 'because he'd worn a Trump 2020 hat'  —  Shocking video has emerged showing a 14-year-old boy being attacked on a school bus, allegedly because he'd previously worn a hat supporting President Donald Trump.

Precinct closures harm voter turnout in Georgia, AJC analysis finds  —  Closures accelerated after Supreme Court invalidated Voting Rights Act provision, putting thousands farther from the polls.  —  Until her old concrete-block precinct shut down, Maggie Coleman lived about a mile from a place to cast her ballot in rural Georgia.

What is the secret of Hillary Clinton's strangely plumped-up-cheeks?  Fillers could be behind more youthful look  —  Hillary Clinton looked wonderfully youthful at an event on Broadway in New York last night - and aesthetic experts suggest it could be down to regular ‘tweakments’ and cosmetic procedures.

Fact-based impeachment can't penetrate the pro-Trump Web  —  As the House Judiciary Committee convened Friday to approve articles of impeachment against President Trump, a watch party got underway in a private Facebook group that rallies its more than 75,000 members around the banner, “THE TRUMP DEPLORABLES.”

Initial China Trade Deal Defuses Tensions, but U.S. Still Has Concerns  —  The agreement includes a commitment by China to buy more agriculture products and to strengthen laws protecting foreign companies operating there.  —  WASHINGTON — When President Trump and China confirmed on Friday …

Icy silence, frayed connections: Impeachment takes a toll  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The most raucous committee in Congress sat stone-faced, barely speaking.  —  One by one, the members around the Judiciary Committee dais voted on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

‘The story stands’: McClatchy won't back off its Michael Cohen-Prague reporting  —  McClatchy isn't relenting on Cohen-Prague.  “Until we have new reporting that tells us our old reporting is wrong, the story stands,” notes Jeanne Segal, a spokeswoman for the newspaper chain, in an email to the Erik Wemple Blog.

Trump has described the same conversation about Israel four times.  Each time, the name of his Jewish friend changed.  —  Touting his accomplishments during a second Hanukkah reception at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump recalled a conversation he said he had with real estate developer Charles Kushner.

Judge's decision may shine light on secret Trump-Putin meeting notes  —  WASHINGTON — A district court judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered administration lawyers to explain why, for more than two years, the White House has refused to turn over to the State Department an interpreter's notes …

State Department limited release of Pompeo contacts with Giuliani.  A judge wants more  —  A federal judge ordered the State Department on Friday to expand its search for records of communication between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, regarding Ukraine policy.

“FIRST, YOU HAVE TO DO THESE THINGS I SAY”: INSIDE ROGER AILES'S TWISTED GAME OF MIND CONTROL  —  During my time at Fox News, Ailes bent reality to fit his own needs.  But his racist rants and warped demands—"all you have to do is kill Gretchen"—ultimately allowed the women of Fox to bring him down.

White House further limits officials on Trump's foreign leader calls in wake of Ukraine scandal  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's senior aides have further restricted the number of administration officials allowed to listen to the President's phone calls with foreign leaders since …

Protests in the Trump Era Have Been Mostly Peaceful.  Here's How the 2020 Election Could Change That  —  Dana R. Fisher is a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and the author of American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave.

Swarovski crystals, $900 cabernet and a Buttigieg fundraiser  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Hall Rutherford wine caves in the hills of California's Napa Valley boast a chandelier with 1,500 Swarovski crystals, an onyx banquet table to reflect its luminescence and bottles of cabernet sauvignon that sell for as much as $900.

Gavin Newsom rejects PG&E bankruptcy plan, demands ‘radically restructured’ CA utility  —  In a stunning rebuke to PG&E Corp., Gov. Gavin Newsom late Friday rejected the utility's plan to pay Northern California wildfire victims and exit bankruptcy.  —  In a letter to PG&E Chief Executive Bill Johnson …