‘Your question is insane.’ Full interview with Secretary of State Pompeo in Wichita  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday made his fourth trip to Kansas this year, this one to Wichita with Ivanka Trump.  The former Kansas congressman sat down with McClatchy's Wichita Eagle and Kansas City Star …

‘Powerful woman’ Kellyanne Conway mocks and threatens reporter for mentioning her husband (AUDIO)  —  Top White House aide Kellyanne Conway, describing herself as “a powerful woman,” aggressively and disparagingly told a female reporter that it was improper to write about her husband …

White House delayed Ukraine trade decision in August, a signal that U.S. suspension of cooperation extended beyond security funds  —  The White House's trade representative in late August withdrew a recommendation to restore some of Ukraine's trade privileges after John Bolton …

EXCLUSIVE: Shocking photos of Congresswoman Katie Hill are revealed as she's seen NAKED showing off Nazi-era tattoo while smoking a bong, kissing her female staffer and posing nude on ‘wife sharing’ sites  — Katie Hill, 32, has been seen in a series of shocking photographs obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com

Trump to Tell Federal Agencies to Cut New York Times, Washington Post Subscriptions  —  White House plans to direct government staffers to not renew orders with the newspapers, whose coverage he has disparaged as ‘fake’  —  WASHINGTON—The White House is planning to instruct federal agencies …

Schiff's Secret Bombshells  —  If the testimony is so damning for Trump, why not make it public?  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Bombshell.  The walls are closing in.  Donald Trump's defense has collapsed.  The quid pro quo has been proven, the case for impeachment is obvious …

Trump Education Official to Resign and Call for Mass Student-Loan Forgiveness  —  A. Wayne Johnson, appointed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, calls the student-loan system ‘fundamentally broken’  —  WASHINGTON—A senior student-loan official in the Trump administration said he would resign Thursday …

The Fantasy of Republicans Ditching Trump  —  Republican senators will soon be receiving an invitation to tear apart the Republican Party ahead of the 2020 elections, and they are going to decline to accept it.  —  It's a trope of pro-impeachment commentary that it should be simple …

United States of America v. Rudolph W. Giuliani  —  Former U.S. Attorneys draft a “Mock Indictment” based on publicly available evidence of Giuliani's misconduct. … While the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel has issued legal opinions that a sitting president cannot be indicted …

The Student Vote Is Surging.  So Are Efforts to Suppress It.  —  The share of college students casting ballots doubled from 2014 to 2018, a potential boon to Democrats.  But in Texas and elsewhere, Republicans are erecting roadblocks to the polls.  —  AUSTIN, Texas — At Austin Community College …

Lawyers for Ukrainian oligarch have another client: The columnist who pushed Biden corruption claims  —  Conservative lawyers Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, who this year took on as a client an oligarch at the center of the Ukraine scandal, also represent the conservative columnist …

Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren?  New Polls Differ on Who's Leading 2020 Race  —  Surveys released this week show varying, and sometimes conflicting, races unfolding nationally and in early primary states.  —  Just over three months before Iowans caucus for Democratic presidential candidates …

N.J. seeks to revoke liquor license for one of Trump's golf clubs, triggered by a case in which a customer caused a fatal car crash  —  The state of New Jersey is seeking to revoke the liquor license for one of President Trump's golf clubs — a rare and potentially damaging punishment …

Economists rush to help Sen. Elizabeth Warren solve Medicare-for-all tax puzzle  —  “She wants something airtight but easy to understand,” one outside adviser said of Warren's approach to finance huge health plan  —  Internal and external economic policy advisers are trying to help Sen. Elizabeth Warren …

National Archives probes Wilbur Ross' use of private email  —  The National Archives and Records Administration has launched an investigation into Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross' use of private email for official business, according to a letter made public this week.

Impeachment Needs a Replay Booth  —  An acquittal should allow a president to run for a third term.  —  I know impeachment is supposed to be an extremely weighty matter that demands every citizen's attention, but part of me would like the never-ending histrionics to go away so that I can give my undivided attention to football.

Brexit: Boris Johnson to try for 12 December election  —  Boris Johnson has said he will give MPs more time to debate his Brexit deal, but only if they agree to a 12 December general election.  —  The prime minister told the BBC he expected the EU to grant an extension to his 31 October deadline …

Hunter Biden's legal work in Romania raises new questions about his overseas dealings  —  Hunter Biden provided legal advice to a Romanian charged with real estate fraud, at a time when his father was pushing corruption reforms in the country.  —  In the final year of the Obama administration …

Cornyn: Not a bad idea to get U.S. troops out of the way if Turkey planned to ‘ethnically cleanse the Kurds’  —  The Texas Republican isn't happy about the abrupt U.S. withdrawal but lauded Trump's move, even if it left Kurdish allies unprotected.  —  WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. John Cornyn lauded …

Buttigieg May Face Subpoena  —  An attorney for the South Bend Common Council told The Young Turks he may subpoena witnesses — possibly including Mayor Pete Buttigieg — starting as early as next week, to testify about police issues including Buttigieg's demotion of Darryl Boykins, the city's first black police chief.

How America's far-left could help re-elect Donald Trump  —  If America's Democrats could adopt a rule on how not to lose elections, it should be to impose a gag on Hillary Clinton.  As it is, Mrs Clinton may already have tweaked the course of the 2020 presidential race.

CNN's Jeff Zucker Says He's Interested in Hiring Former Fox News Host Shepard Smith  —  “When he's available, he is somebody who is very talented and I would be very open to talking to him,” the network president said.  —  CNN president Jeff Zucker suggested that he's interested …

Why Zuckerberg's Embrace of Mayor Pete Should Worry You  —  Some in Silicon Valley see the technocratic wonder boy from South Bend as a safe alternative to the big-tech crackdown promised by Elizabeth Warren.  —  We recently learned that Elizabeth Warren is the kind of presidential candidate …

House Dems Accuse Impeachment Witnesses of Coordinating Testimony  —  The evidence concerns two unnamed witnesses in particular, said Rep. Eric Swallwell.  —  Some Democrats involved in the impeachment inquiry are beginning to suspect that certain witnesses have coordinated with each …

Reports: Trump to imminently begin process of leaving Paris climate deal  —  President Trump is making life more complicated for climate change advocates and K Street alike — in ways obvious and sometimes less so.  —  Driving the news: The climate world was abuzz Wednesday at reports …

Early Signs Suggest Trouble for Trump in 2020 Election  —  With the 2020 Democratic primary season well under way, many political analysts — and not a few Democrats — have wondered which of the party's candidates is most electable.  But there's another candidate with an electability challenge: President Donald Trump.

Pro-Trump ‘Enemies List’ Smear Flops  —  They've latched onto their most ridiculous claim yet.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Donald Trump's allies in Congress and the pro-Trump media are scrambling to find a counter-narrative to the Ukraine impeachment investigation that can shore up Republican support …

Italy Did Not Fuel U.S. Suspicion of Russian Meddling, Prime Minister Says  —  Casting holes in a Trump conspiracy theory, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte revealed details of two visits to Rome by Attorney General William P. Barr.  —  ROME — Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy …