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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Democrats Sparred Over a Wine Cave Fund-Raiser.  Its Billionaire Owner Isn't Pleased.  —  “It's just not fair,” said the owner of the wine cave, who with his wife has donated millions to Democrats since the 1980s.  —  RUTHERFORD, Calif. — To reach the wine cave that set off a firestorm …

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.

Democratic Debate Ratings Hit Lowest Point of 2020 Presidential Campaign  —  The final Democratic primary had one of the smallest stages yet and the fewest viewers for it, drawing just over 6 million viewers across multiple viewing platforms.  —  According to Nielsen figures provided to Variety …

Evangelical Leaders Close Ranks With Trump After Scathing Editorial  —  Christianity Today's call for President Trump's removal gave voice to his evangelical critics.  But they remain a minority in a political movement that Mr. Trump has reshaped in his own mold.

How Trump's conversations with Putin overlapped with his emerging Ukraine conspiracy theories  —  One former official in President Trump's administration was explicit when speaking with The Washington Post's Shane Harris, Josh Dawsey and Carol D. Leonnig.  —  Asked why he believed Ukraine …

How Trump spent the ultimate week of impeachment  —  As the House voted, Trump was cloistered offstage at the Kellogg Arena, watching on TV while a boisterous crowd waited for him.  —  President Donald Trump.  Drew Angerer/Getty Images  —  The week he got impeached …

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 …

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.

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 …

Russia vows to push ahead with natural gas pipeline to Europe despite Trump sanctions  —  The U.S. has long opposed the 750-mile Nord Stream 2 pipeline, arguing it will leave Europe overly dependent on Russia for energy supply.  —  Russia vowed Saturday to press ahead with building …

‘Pattern of harassing lawsuits’: McClatchy asks judge to dismiss Devin Nunes' complaint  —  Sacramento-based newspaper publisher McClatchy fought a defamation lawsuit filed by California congressman Devin Nunes in a Virginia court on Friday, arguing the Republican's case does not belong in the state.

Italian prosecutors believe that Joseph Mifsud the man who started RussiaGate, ‘is Dead’  —  UPDATE: Late Friday night, George Papadopolous responded to the reports that Italian prosecutors in Agrigento, Sicily believe the Maltese Professor Joseph Mifsud is dead.

The Trump administration just overturned a ban on old-fashioned lightbulbs  —  The move, which could raise U.S. energy costs by $14 billion and boost carbon emissions, keeps incandescent bulbs from being phased out Jan. 1.  —  The Trump administration gave old-fashioned …

Facebook says a pro-Trump media outlet used artificial intelligence to create fake people and push conspiracies  —  Facebook took down more than 600 accounts tied to The Epoch Times, a media outlet that has spent heavily on digital ads to push pro-Trump conspiracy theories.