Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani have demolished Trump's claims of innocence  —  New documents show why the president has been trying to hide evidence from Congress.  —  Americans who have been wondering why President Trump has taken the extraordinary step of trying to block every document …

Warren ‘came to raise a concern’ with Sanders after debate, his campaign manager says  —  DES MOINES — Sen. Elizabeth Warren “came to raise a concern” with Sen. Bernie Sanders after Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate, according to Sanders's campaign manager, who briefly described …

Michael Avenatti Arrested by Feds at California State Bar Hearing  —  Stormy Daniels' ex-lawyer was taken into custody by federal agents during a disciplinary hearing at California's State Bar Court.  —  LOS ANGELES—Ex-Stormy Daniels lawyer and Trump antagonist Michael Avenatti was led …

Impeachment trial security crackdown will limit Capitol press access  —  The Senate sergeant-at-arms and Capitol Police are launching an unprecedented crackdown on the Capitol press corps for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, following a standoff between the Capitol's chief security officials …

Michael Flynn seeking to withdraw guilty plea  —  Lawyers for the former national security adviser contend the government undermined its own deal.  —  Former national security adviser Michael Flynn has a sentencing hearing scheduled for later this month.  Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo

Justin Amash Has a Decision to Make  —  ‘Is there any better time to have a president who might be not from either party?’  —  Three weeks from the first votes of the 2020 election, the presidential race seems—finally—to be taking shape.  Republicans, having blocked any serious attempts …

Why Mitch McConnell must allow Senate to call witnesses in Trump's impeachment trial  —  The case for calling witnesses in the Senate's impeachment trial of President Trump, and for subpoenaing documents that the White House has withheld from Congress, is now too compelling to deny.

Toensing Law Firm Distances Itself From Giuliani Letter to Zelensky  —  UKRAINE OUTREACH  —  Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas gave congressional impeachment investigators a letter on Giuliani's law firm stationery asking for a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky …

Why we're introducing a resolution on war with Iran  —  Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, and Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, are members of the U.S. Senate.  —  For more than 40 years, the United States and Iran have had a troubled relationship.  Because of the Iranian regime's insistence …

Trump to lift hold on $8.2B in Puerto Rico disaster aid  —  The Department of Housing and Urban Development will allow Puerto Rico to access more than $8 billion in blocked disaster aid funding, ending a monthslong hold by the Trump administration, according to people familiar with the matter.

ABC Execs Try to Get Abby Huntsman to Cover for Toxic Culture at ‘The View’  —  Network brass wanted Huntsman to publicly deny reporting of internal strife at the talk show.  The outgoing co-host refused to do so, sources said.  —  The behind-the-scenes melodrama at ABC's The View amped …