McConnell Rejects Calling Mulvaney or Bolton for Impeachment Trial  —  Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, had sought testimony from four witnesses the White House had blocked, including Mick Mulvaney and John Bolton.  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader …

We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated  —  The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet.  —  The authors have worked for and supported Republican campaigns.  —  Patriotism and the survival of our nation in the face of the crimes …

Giuliani Provides Details of What Trump Knew About Ambassador's Removal  —  Rudolph Giuliani said in an interview that he briefed the president “a couple of times” about Marie Yovanovitch, the envoy to Ukraine, setting her recall in motion.  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani said on Monday …

Family emergency sidelines Jerry Nadler day before expected impeachment vote  —  Nadler is expected to return to Washington late Tuesday or early Wednesday.  —  House Judiciary Jerry Nadler on Friday.  Matt McClain/The Washington Post via AP, Pool  —  House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler …

Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook's Internal Divisions on Politics  —  Billionaire investor thinks political-ad policy shouldn't change; some directors and executives disagree  —  Facebook Inc. FB 1.96% 's senior leadership is increasingly divided over how to address criticism of the company's effect …

Rep. Anthony Brindisi will vote to impeach President Trump (Exclusive)  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi says he plans to vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump after concluding the president abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress.

Rick Gates sentenced to 45 days in jail after Mueller cooperation  —  Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates was sentenced to 45 days in jail — to be served on weekends — on Tuesday in a Washington, D.C. federal court.  —  Why it matters: His sentencing wraps up one of the final outstanding portions …

HISTORIANS' STATEMENT ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP  —  President Trump's numerous and flagrant abuses of power are precisely what the Framers had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing a president.  Among those most hurtful to the Constitution have been his attempts to coerce …

‘Vile and disturbing’: Army unit marks Battle of the Bulge with picture of Nazi war criminal who massacred Americans  —  On the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's final major push in World War II, a U.S. Army unit shared a tribute to the “greatest battle in American history” …

Trump Is Forever  —  The four reasons why Republicans won't turn on Trump, no matter what.  —  The level of loyalty Donald Trump commands from elected Republicans seems qualitatively different from that offered to previous Republican presidents.  —  For instance: Republicans told President Nixon to resign his office.

Americans locked in partisan stalemate on removing Trump from office, Post-ABC poll finds  —  As the House prepares to vote on two articles of impeachment against President Trump, Americans remain both deeply divided and locked into their positions over which course lawmakers should pursue, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

USA TODAY Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term  —  Susan Page William Cummings Nicholas WuUSA TODAY  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, the first modern president to face impeachment during his first term in the White House, now leads …

Trump says Armenia massacres were not genocide, directly contradicting Congress  —  President Trump has said he does not consider the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 to be a genocide, contradicting a unanimous vote by the US Senate.  —  The historic vote last week incensed Turkey …

The Human Toll of the 2019 Media Apocalypse  —  More than 3,000 journalists lost their jobs this year.  These are some of their stories.  —  eing a journalist in 2019 meant working under the gun.  In January, over a thousand journalists lost their jobs as layoffs hit Gannett, BuzzFeed, AOL, and HuffPost.

Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges  —  A former investment manager alleges in a whistleblower complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has amassed about $100 billion …

On Tuesday, March for Impeachment  —  The anti-Trump majority needs to make itself seen.  —  Brian Kilmeade — the dark-haired guy on “Fox & Friends,” Fox News's morning show — was surprised.  During the program on Monday, a correspondent reported that a Fox News poll showed that 50 percent …

Maria Butina, convicted of being a foreign agent in the US, will host Russian state-funded TV show  —  London (CNN Business)Russian gun-rights enthusiast Maria Butina, recently released from a US prison, will become the host of an online video program, Russia's state owned network RT announced Tuesday.

Russian disinformation network said to have helped spread smear of U.S. ambassador to Ukraine  —  The web analysis firm Graphika has linked posts to a ‘known Russian operation’  —  The story that appeared on The Hill website on March 20 was startling.  —  Marie Yovanovitch …

The real reasons the US government is so secretive about UFOs  —  Two years ago Sunday, the New York Times broke the stunning story of a secret Pentagon program to study unidentified flying objects.  That story led me to delve into this strange world.  I've learned some interesting stuff about UFOs …

Judge allows Georgia to purge 309K voter registrations overnight  —  About 309,000 names were set to be erased from Georgia's list of registered voters Monday night, a mass cancellation that a federal judge allowed to move forward.  —  A voting rights group, Fair Fight Action …

The New York Times's political coverage has completely imploded at the worst possible time  —  The New York Times's three-year struggle to sustain its reporting algorithms, built for two political parties that have comparable relationships to reality, collapsed into sordid heap of nonsense over the weekend.