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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Satellite photos show work on North Korean site linked to long-range missiles  —  The new evidence comes as U.S. military and intelligence officials are increasingly concerned that North Korea is poised to conduct a long-range missile test in the next few days or weeks.

$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.

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.

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 …

Trump slams ‘unfair’ Pelosi delay, rallies conservatives  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump complained Saturday about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's delayed transmission of the articles of impeachment to the Senate, which may delay a trial in the GOP-controlled chamber.

Woman Ran Over Girl Because She Was ‘a Mexican,’ Police Say  —  The police charged a Des Moines woman with attempted murder after she told investigators she intentionally ran over a 14-year-old girl with her vehicle.  —  An Iowa woman was charged with attempted murder after running …

Fiore tied to report alleging domestic terrorism by Washington lawmaker  —  Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal)  —  Findings that a Washington state lawmaker participated in domestic terrorism during a high-profile armed standoff in Oregon …

Susan Collins set to play pivotal role in impeachment drama  —  Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is emerging as the most important vote in the Senate battle over President Trump's impeachment trial, as Democrats regard her support as key to getting the additional witnesses and documents they need to build their case.

Save Me from My Defenders! … Being silenced or harassed for unpopular speech on a university campus is by now such a mark of distinction that I may be accused of exercising bragging rights in describing a recent incident in which I was involved.  The real danger I encountered, however …

Trump supporter disrupts impeachment rally with a truck and ‘Rambo’ flag, NC cops say  —  A man in a flatbed pickup truck who was waving a flag with President Donald Trump's face superimposed on what looks like Rambo's body interrupted an impeachment rally in western North Carolina.

'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 …

Bloomberg Expands Staffing Plan to More Battleground States  —  Billionaire candidate plans to keep offices open through November election, even if he isn't nominee  —  PHILADELPHIA— Michael Bloomberg's campaign is planning to keep offices open and staffers employed through the November election …

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 …

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 …

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 …