Newly released emails offer more details in timeline of pause to Ukraine aid  —  Source: Key impeachment witness told to leave Ukraine post before Pompeo visit  —  Washington (CNN)Shortly after President Donald Trump spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25 …

Singer Etheridge, big Warren donors and souvenir wine bottle  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — On a Saturday evening in June 2018, with temperatures in the 70s and the Red Sox playing at Fenway Park, supporters of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren gathered at the City Winery Boston for a fundraiser.

Fear and Loyalty: How Donald Trump Took Over the Republican Party  —  The president demands complete fealty, and as the impeachment hearings showed, he has largely attained it.  To cross him is to risk a future in G.O.P. politics.  —  BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — By the summer of 2017, Dave Trott …

Heritage Foundation Responds to Tucker Carlson's False Accusations on Big Tech  —  WASHINGTON—In a segment that aired Friday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson made several false, outrageous, and unfounded accusations against The Heritage Foundation.  Rob Bluey, vice president of communications at Heritage …

$1 billion for Briny Breezes?  Real estate broker thinks Trump would buy... and residents are listening  —  A plan being pushed by a Briny Breezes resident would sell the 43-acre town for $1 billion to Donald Trump as a potential site for a presidential library.

The two big flaws of the media's impeachment coverage — and what went right  —  The most telling moment of how the media covered impeachment may have come, oddly enough, on Fox News.  —  Todd Piro of “Fox & Friends” — President Trump's most reliable cheerleading squad …

From an imaginary restraining order to a phantom drop in NATO spending: Trump makes 99 false claims in two weeks  —  Lindsey Graham calls out Trump after attack  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump made 99 false claims over the two weeks that ended last Sunday.

Trump touts Putin speaking out against his impeachment  —  Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladi­mir Putin defended him against impeachment.

U.S. Braces for Major North Korean Weapons Test as Trump's Diplomacy Fizzles  —  President Trump's summits with Kim Jong-un have failed to bring concrete results, and the diplomatic vacuum has given North Korea more time to build its nuclear arsenal.  —  WASHINGTON — American military …

Why Does Starbucks Melt Conservative Brains?  —  Right-wingers keep falling for hoaxes and believing the worst about the ubiquitous coffee purveyor.  —  Rep. Steve King (R-IA) had an important warning to share on Tuesday: A Starbucks manager in North Carolina was firing employees for saying …

'I'm Kidnapped': A Father's Nightmare on the Border  —  A father was tortured in front of his 3-year-old son until his wife in New Jersey paid $2,000 to his captors.  Hundreds of migrants, turned back by the U.S., are facing new dangers in Mexico.  —  REYNOSA, Mexico — He remembers being on his knees …

U.S. Sanctions Halt Work on Russia's Gas Pipeline to Europe  —  The pause comes hours after President Trump signed a bill targeting entities working on the project  —  BERLIN—U.S. sanctions have temporarily stopped the construction of a pipeline that is set to increase the flow …

These Reporters Lost Their Jobs.  Here Are the Stories They Couldn't Tell.  —  Amid a crisis in local news, eight journalists who left newsrooms in 2019 reflect on the stories left in their notebooks.  Photographers who also lost their jobs captured them on their former beats.

Biden-Graham friendship, forged in war zones, fractures under the pressures of impeachment and Trump  —  Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham were hurtling over the Hindu Kush mountains, bound for Kabul and a war that both men knew was veering badly off track.  —  Biden was two weeks away …

Anti-Trump evangelicals saw Christianity Today editorial ‘as a breath of fresh air,’ magazine's former editor says  —  A day after the House impeached President Trump, charging that he pressured Ukraine to investigate a political rival, one of the most prominent institutions in evangelical Christianity …

What We Know About Trump Going Into 2020  —  There is merit, at times, to thinking about what might have been.  Counterfactual history can help us see what our factual history has actually told us.  —  So reflect for a second on the campaign of 2016.  One Republican candidate channeled …

Trump Quest to Expose Whistle-Blower Hard to Pull Off in Senate  — Impeachment trial should hear from person behind ‘hoax’: Trump  — Federal laws promise anonymity for workers who come forward  —  President Donald Trump says his impeachment trial should deliver on a goal he's nurtured for months …

Pope Francis, in Christmas Message, Says Church Must Adapt to Post-Christian West  —  The pope's remarks echoed those of his predecessors who spoke of a “new evangelization” to revive the faith in historically Christian lands  —  ROME—The Catholic Church must adopt new approaches …

How Trump spent the ultimate week of impeachment  —  The week he got impeached, President Donald Trump spent his mornings huddled with top aides and lawyers to strategize.  —  He spent the afternoons working the phones, first gathering vote tallies and later asking why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …

Where Even the Children Are Being Tracked  —  ON NOV. 19, 2016, kids in tow, Margie Homer drove from her home.  She pulled into the lot of the Pasadena Waldorf School in Altadena, Calif., at 10:26 a.m. It was a gorgeous, clear morning, and she and hundreds of others walked among the bales …