After months of fighting the House impeachment inquiry, blocking witnesses and ignoring subpoenas, the White House is now publicly embracing a strategy it has privately signaled for weeks. Read more
Speaking at a meeting with military officials, Putin said that Russia has repeatedly offered the U.S. to extend the New START treaty that expires in 2021 but that it hasn’t heard back. Read more
The House Impeachment Report includes phone records obtained from AT&T and Verizon, showing extensive contact between Giuliani and the White House. Read more
Scaling back public benefits for low-income Americans has long been a Trump administration priority. Read more
President Donald Trump branded the leader of America’s northern neighbor “two-faced” after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared to gossip about Trump in comments caught on camera and microphone. Read more
A federal appeals court in New York handed President Donald Trump another legal defeat, ruling Congress can see his banking records for investigations into possible foreign influence in U.S. politics or other misdeeds. Read more
Hunter, 42, pleaded guilty in federal court to a single count of conspiracy three weeks before he was set to go to trial on charges that he and his wife dipped into almost $250,000 in campaign money for expenses ranging from family vacations to school tuition and dental work. Read more
He said his motivation is protect his three children from going through a trial, which was set to begin Jan. 22. Read more
Lisa Page, the former FBI lawyer who became a frequent target of President Donald Trump after criticizing him in text messages during his candidacy in 2016, ended nearly two years of public silence in an interview Sunday. Read more
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign said it would bar Bloomberg News journalists from attending its rallies and political events, an attempt to retaliate against the news organization’s decision to cease investigating Democratic candidates in the wake of its billionaire owner’s entry into the 2020 presidential race. Read more
The House impeachment report on President Donald Trump will be unveiled Monday behind closed doors for key lawmakers as Democrats push ahead with the inquiry despite the White House’s declaration it will not participate in the first Judiciary Committee hearing. Read more
The House impeachment inquiry enters a pivotal stage this week, with investigators planning a vote Tuesday to approve their report making the case for President Donald Trump’s removal from office as he decides whether to mount a defense before a likely Senate trial. Read more
The case of the president and a commando accused of war crimes offers a lesson in how Trump presides over the armed forces three years after taking office. Read more
Bloomberg, the billionaire former New York City mayor, entered the race Sunday Read more
President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to spend time with U.S. troops on Thanksgiving. Read more
As Rudy Giuliani waged a public campaign this year to unearth damaging information in Ukraine about President Donald Trump’s political rivals, he privately pursued hundreds of thousands of dollars in business from Ukrainian government officials, documents reviewed by the New York Times show. Read more
He was the billionaire businessman and untested politician who took charge of a scarred city and steered it into a new era, shaping a New York that projected glittering prosperity, governmental innovation and cosmopolitan confidence. Read more
President Donald Trump couldn’t resist riffing on the House impeachment inquiry as he continued the tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey today at the White House. Read more
Her husband, President Donald Trump, had previously disparaged the city as “rat and rodent infested.” Read more
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee are harshly criticizing tech giant Google for making it harder for political advertisers to target specific types of people. Read more
Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross “have not produced a single additional document” since the Supreme Court blocked the administration’s efforts to include the citizenship question last June, the committee said. Read more
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