Trump Ordered Ukraine Ambassador Removed After Complaints From Giuliani, Others  —  Marie Yovanovitch dismissed after Trump allies said she was blocking Biden probe and bad-mouthing president, people familiar with the matter say  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump ordered the removal of the ambassador …

Trump raised Biden with Xi in June call housed in highly secure server  —  Washington (CNN)When President Donald Trump suggested — without prompting — that China should investigate Joe Biden and his son, he thrust another political grudge into what was already the world's most complicated and consequential relationship.

IRS whistleblower said to report Treasury political appointee might have tried to interfere in audit of Trump or Pence  —  An Internal Revenue Service official has filed a whistleblower complaint reporting that he was told at least one Treasury Department political appointee attempted …

Scoop: Trump letter dares Pelosi to hold vote on impeachment inquiry  —  The White House is planning to send Speaker Nancy Pelosi a letter as soon as Friday arguing that President Trump and his team can ignore lawmakers' demands until she holds a full House vote formally approving an impeachment inquiry …

Energy Secretary Rick Perry eyeing exit in November  —  Energy Secretary Rick Perry is expected to announce his resignation from the administration by the end of November, according to three people familiar with his plans.  —  Perry, who had been Texas' longest-serving governor …

Another GOP senator breaks from Trump to defend Ukraine whistleblower  —  “I stand with Chuck Grassley on this,” Ernst said, referring to Iowa's other Republican senator who defended the unnamed whistleblower.  —  Another Republican senator is speaking out in defense of the intelligence …

Why Elizabeth Warren is getting such good press  —  It seems like every day a new story breaks about how Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) is climbing in the polls, releasing a new policy proposal, “winning” a primary debate or taking some other step toward becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.

Did Donald Trump Just Self-Impeach?  —  In the ten days since the House of Representatives launched its impeachment inquiry, President Trump has spoken and tweeted thousands of words in public.  He has called the investigation a “coup” and the press “deranged.”

Why Trump Voters Stick With Him  —  An imagined conversation with Flyover Man.  —  Urban Guy: I hope you read the rough transcript of that Trump phone call with the Ukrainian president.  Trump clearly used public power to ask a foreign leader to dig up dirt on his political opponent.

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump's call with Ukraine president manifests criminal and impeachable behavior  —  The House of Representatives has begun to gather evidence in an effort to determine if President Trump has committed impeachable offenses.  The Constitution defines an impeachable offense as …

Bob Woodward interviewed the ‘She Said’ authors at a book event.  Things got tense.  Then there was heckling.  —  It seemed like the perfect combination of three Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists: The Washington Post's Bob Woodward interviewing the New York Times's Jodi Kantor …

Donald Trump Is Stuck In A Human Centipede Of Boomer Memes  —  Since the beginning of the 2016 election cycle, some of President Donald Trump's supporters have claimed that the Republican is more cunning than he appears, playing “four-dimensional chess.”  But what was never totally clear …

White House Floats Potential DOJ Investigation Into ‘Joe Biden and His Family’  —  A tiny, largely unnoticed edit to a daily White House newsletter this week suggests the Trump administration is leaving open the possibility of siccing the Justice Department on Joe Biden.

Trump seized on a conspiracy theory called the ‘insurance policy.’ Now, it's at the center of an impeachment investigation.  —  Just months after Trump's inauguration, conspiracy theorists pushed a fanciful and unsubstantiated narrative in which the DNC framed Russia for election interference.

Tucker And Patel: The Truth About Impeachment  —  Donald Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden.  Some Republicans are trying, but there's no way to spin this as a good idea.

New Polling Makes It Clear: Support For Impeachment Is Up  —  What remains to be seen is whether that momentum will continue.  —  Public opinion in the U.S. has shifted significantly in favor of impeachment, according to a new wave of national polling.  —  Polls from CNN/SSRS, Monmouth …