Rudy Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, is encouraging Ukraine to wade further into sensitive political issues in the United States, seeking to push the incoming government in Kiev …

Andrew Neil takes on US conservative Ben Shapiro  —  He has more than 2 million followers on Twitter, 600,000 YouTube subscribers and his videos on the Daily Wire channel rack up millions of views.  —  Ben Shapiro is a controversial figure but one of the US' leading conservative political commentators.

House Intel Republicans offer rare praise for Adam Schiff  —  Republicans once called for Schiff's resignation.  Now they credit him with bringing the committee together.  —  President Donald Trump and Republicans have harangued House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff …

If This Is a Constitutional Crisis, Act Like It  —  Democrats in Congress need to deploy all their powers, including impeachment.  —  In their best-selling 2018 book “How Democracies Die,” the Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt wrote about the concept of “constitutional hardball …

Trump Baffles With ‘No Rush’ China Trade Tweet, Delete, Retweet  — U.S. has begun to add 25% tariffs on $250 billion in goods  — ‘Just sit back and watch!’  Trump says in Twitter string  —  U.S. President Donald Trump, the morning after levying fresh tariffs on China …

Experts see Russia fingerprints on North Korea's new missile  —  TOKYO (AP) — The three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely copied missile the Russian military …

Why I Do Not Hate Donald Trump  —  Many people would probably believe me justified in hating Donald Trump.  —  While I was general counsel of the FBI, I watched the president fire my boss and friend, Jim Comey.  I've read and heard the many false statements that the president and his supporters have made about him.

How golf explains Trump.  Seriously.  —  “This guy cheats like a mafia accountant.”  —  Have you ever won a tournament you never competed in?  Have you ever stolen the ball from a child to gain a competitive advantage?  —  If the answer to either or both of those questions is no, then you're not cheating at the highest level.

HUD says 55,000 children could be displaced under Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants  —  The Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged that a Trump administration plan to purge undocumented immigrants from public housing could displace more than 55,000 children, all of whom are legal U.S. residents or citizens.

Schiff considers fining Trump officials held in contempt $25,000 a day  —  House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told Axios' Mike Allen Friday that the House is considering reviving its “inherent contempt” power, which would allow Congress to enforce subpoenas through coercive measures like fines.

Exclusive: Presidential hopeful Biden looking for ‘middle ground’ climate policy  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden is crafting a climate change policy he hopes will appeal to both environmentalists and the blue-collar voters that elected Donald Trump …

Exclusive: Documents Detail Meetings Of Russians With Treasury, Federal Reserve  —  Newly obtained documents describe what happened when two now-infamous Russians took their outreach campaign into the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve in 2015.  —  Alexander Torshin …

John Paul Stevens Worries About the Court  —  A retired Supreme Court justice wants his former colleagues to adhere to precedent and the president to comply with subpoenas  —  At 99, John Paul Stevens can remember a time when a Supreme Court nomination prompted minimal controversy …

Pentagon shifting $1.5 billion to border wall construction  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is shifting $1.5 billion in funds originally targeted for support of the Afghan security forces and other projects to help pay for construction of 80 miles of wall at the U.S.-Mexican border, officials said Friday.

US B-52 bombers land in Qatar over unspecified Iran threat  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — B-52 bombers ordered by the White House to deploy to the Persian Gulf to counter unspecified threats from Iran have arrived at a major American air base in Qatar, the U.S. Air Force acknowledged Friday.

Three Production Companies Say They Won't Film in Georgia Over Abortion Law  —  David Simon's Blown Deadline Productions, Killer Films CEO Christine Vachon and Mark Duplass pledged to no longer shoot in the state as long as the law exists.  —  Georgia, no stranger to threats of boycotts due …

Beto's Long History of Failing Upward  —  AMES, Iowa—The presidential run of Beto O'Rourke is a profoundly personality-driven exercise, his charisma and Kennedy-esque demeanor the topic of one profile after another, so it's surprising to listen to his speeches on the stump in which he doesn't talk a whole lot about himself.

She Stopped to Help Migrants on a Texas Highway.  Moments Later, She Was Arrested.  —  MCALLEN, Tex. — Teresa L. Todd pulled over one recent night on a dark West Texas highway to help three young Central American migrants who had flagged her down.  Ms. Todd — an elected official …