GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander, key impeachment vote, to reveal decision on witnesses tonight  —  Alexander is one of a handful of Republican senators who may vote to hear from witnesses during the Senate impeachment trial.  —  Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., a key impeachment swing vote …

John Delaney says he's dropping out of presidential race  —  John Delaney, a businessman and former Maryland congressman who launched a bid for the presidency nearly three years ago, has dropped out of the race, saying in a statement that he doesn't want to take support away from other moderate candidates in Monday's Iowa caucuses.

In Austin, John Bolton voices support for officials called in impeachment hearing  —  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Speaking at a private event in Austin Thursday, Former National Security Advisor John Bolton defended government officials who testified in front of the U.S. House impeachment inquiry.

Dems Fed Up With GOP's Refusal to Budge on Impeachment: 'It's More Than Frustrating—It's Pathetic'  —  To a person, they feel like the case they made was overwhelming.  So what does it say if Republicans don't move?  —  For nearly two weeks, Democrats took to the floor of the Senate …

Bernie Sanders praised George Wallace as ‘sensitive’ in 1972  —  Seven years after Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to George Wallace as “perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today,” a young Bernie Sanders praised the segregationist Alabama governor.

Trump's border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months  —  NACO, Ariz. — President Trump's border wall likely will require the installation of hundreds of storm gates to prevent flash floods from undermining or knocking it over, gates that must be left open …

Trump: Coronavirus will have ‘a very good ending for us’  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday sought to assure Americans about the spread of a new coronavirus, saying it would have “a very good ending for us ... that I can assure you,” hours after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global emergency.

Paul Manafort and Rudy's Indicted Associate Igor Fruman Go Way, Way Back  —  The relationship — stretching from New York to London to Kyiv — long predated Rudy Giuliani's attempts to discredit the evidence that played a key role in Manafort's downfall.  —  The web of connections between …

Don't let the defense fool you.  This impeachment is all about corruption.  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC.  —  The president's lawyers this week floated their catch-all impeachment defense, one tailor-made for President Trump.

Iowa Democrats fear losing first-in-the-nation status  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Bruised feelings from Julián Castro's criticism this fall that Iowa is too white and too unrepresentative of the Democratic Party to go first in the nominating process have been replaced by spreading fears here that critics could get their way in 2024.

Most feel good about the economy but not the state of the country - CBS News poll  —  Ahead of President Trump's State of the Union address, more Americans feel positive about the state of the economy than they do about the state of the country overall.  As Mr. Trump gets record high approval ratings …

What Will Brexit Britain Be Like?  —  At 11 p.m. on Friday, Britain will leave the European Union.  Big Ben will not bong—it's too expensive—but the United Kingdom will secede from its defining economic and political relationship of the past fifty years.  In Parliament Square …

The Republican Cover-up Will Backfire.  The House Can Keep Investigating Trump.  —  Toward the end, the impeachment trial's strategic purpose narrowed into an obsessive quest to produce evidence.  Democrats have defined victory not as removal, but as winning a procedural vote to allow more testimony, especially by John Bolton.

64 US troops suffered traumatic brain injuries from Iranian missile attack, as casualty total continues to balloon  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon announced Thursday that 64 American troops sustained mild traumatic brain injuries as a result of the Iranian missile strikes on two military bases in Iraq …

AP Exclusive: Woman who says Trump raped her seeks his DNA  —  NEW YORK — Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter.

Sanders, Biden are neck-and-neck in new NBC/WSJ national poll  —  The two Democratic presidential contenders are statistically tied but Sanders has an edge in loyalty of his supporters.  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Just days before the first votes are counted in the Democratic primary …

The Atlantic made Rahm Emanuel a contributing editor.  Then, suddenly, he wasn't.  —  Last May, the Atlantic announced that Rahm Emanuel, who'd just left his post as Chicago mayor, would be joining the magazine as a contributing editor.  “The Atlantic will be the primary home for Emanuel's writing …