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.

The president is on trial.  So are my Senate Republican colleagues.  —  Jeff Flake, a Republican, represented Arizona in the U.S. Senate from 2013 to 2019.  He is a resident fellow at Harvard University and a contributor to CBS News.  —  To my former Senate Republican colleagues,  —  I don't envy you.

$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.

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 …

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 …

Trump adviser: Expect more aggressive poll watching in 2020  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of President Donald Trump's top re-election advisers told influential Republicans in swing state Wisconsin that the party has “traditionally” relied on voter suppression to compete in battleground states …

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 …

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's distorted letter to Dems and history  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The closing passage in President Donald Trump's impeachment-eve letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had the ring of truth to it.  He was writing his thoughts for history, he said.  For 100 years from now, “when people look back at this affair.”

Under secret Stephen Miller plan, ICE to use data on migrant children to expand deportation efforts  —  The White House sought this month to embed immigration enforcement agents within the U.S. refugee agency that cares for unaccompanied migrant children, part of a long-standing effort …

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.

Trump Has a Habit of Quoting His Allies on Twitter Saying Things They Never Said  —  The president frequently injects his own words into statements he claims his supporters said on Fox News or elsewhere.  They rarely publicly correct him.  —  WASHINGTON — Watching Fox News ahead …

Nearly 100 Arrested in Long Island Probe of MS-13 Street Gang  —  Takedown effectively ends gang's operations in New York state, officials say  —  Nearly 100 alleged MS-13 members and associates have been arrested on murder-conspiracy, drug-trafficking and weapons-possession charges as part …

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 …

Pete Buttigieg's Campaign Says This Wikipedia User Is Not Pete.  So Who Is It?  —  Pete Buttigieg, the young, telegenic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, prides himself on being the only millennial currently vying for the presidency, and his path up to this point has been a fairly deliberate one.

John Dingell was a bigger man than Trump will ever be  —  When John Dingell knew that he had only a few days left to live, the longest-serving member of Congress recorded his thoughts about how America had changed in his six decades of public service.  Good people had always worked toward progress …

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 …

Robert Mueller's Dossier Dodge  —  Why did the special counsel not tell America that Christopher Steele's information was false?  —  By The Editorial Board  —  In her public order Tuesday, Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court didn't mention Robert Mueller.