Disparate group of Republican senators worry White House and GOP leaders ahead of impeachment trial  —  (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's high-profile push for witnesses to testify in the Senate's expected impeachment trial of President Donald Trump shifted attention and political pressure …

We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated  —  The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet.  —  The authors have worked for and supported Republican campaigns.  —  Patriotism and the survival of our nation in the face of the crimes …

On Tuesday, March for Impeachment  —  The anti-Trump majority needs to make itself seen.  —  Brian Kilmeade — the dark-haired guy on “Fox & Friends,” Fox News's morning show — was surprised.  During the program on Monday, a correspondent reported that a Fox News poll showed that 50 percent …

Giuliani Provides Details of What Trump Knew About Ambassador's Removal  —  Rudolph Giuliani said in an interview that he briefed the president “a couple of times” about Marie Yovanovitch, the envoy to Ukraine, setting her recall in motion.  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani said on Monday …

HISTORIANS' STATEMENT ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP  —  President Trump's numerous and flagrant abuses of power are precisely what the Framers had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing a president.  Among those most hurtful to the Constitution have been his attempts to coerce …

Rep. Anthony Brindisi will vote to impeach President Trump (Exclusive)  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi says he plans to vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump after concluding the president abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress.

Yea or nay on impeachment: USA TODAY Opinion contributors take sides  —  Would you take a case to trial that you know you could never win?  That's what is on the table with Trump impeachment.  —  USA TODAY asked a diverse group of contributors to its Opinion section how they would vote on impeaching President Donald Trump.

Trump Is Forever  —  The four reasons why Republicans won't turn on Trump, no matter what.  —  The level of loyalty Donald Trump commands from elected Republicans seems qualitatively different from that offered to previous Republican presidents.  —  For instance: Republicans told President Nixon to resign his office.

USA TODAY Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term  —  Susan Page William Cummings Nicholas WuUSA TODAY  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, the first modern president to face impeachment during his first term in the White House, now leads …

Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges  —  A former investment manager alleges in a whistleblower complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has amassed about $100 billion …

Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook's Internal Divisions on Politics  —  Billionaire investor thinks political-ad policy shouldn't change; some directors and executives disagree  —  Facebook Inc. FB 1.96% 's senior leadership is increasingly divided over how to address criticism of the company's effect …

The Tax Break for Children, Except the Ones Who Need It Most  —  The child tax credit, begun in 1997 as a tax cut, has become an anti-poverty program.  But more than a third of children don't receive it because their parents earn too little.  —  MONROE, La. — With two children and a third on the way …

The real reasons the US government is so secretive about UFOs  —  Two years ago Sunday, the New York Times broke the stunning story of a secret Pentagon program to study unidentified flying objects.  That story led me to delve into this strange world.  I've learned some interesting stuff about UFOs …

Vox Media to cut hundreds of freelance jobs ahead of changes in California gig economy laws  — Hundreds of Vox Media freelancers will lose their jobs in the coming months.  — Vox Media is preparing for a California law, Assembly Bill 5, which goes into effect in 2020 and forbids non-employees …

Judge allows Georgia to purge 309K voter registrations overnight  —  About 309,000 names were set to be erased from Georgia's list of registered voters Monday night, a mass cancellation that a federal judge allowed to move forward.  —  A voting rights group, Fair Fight Action …

The New York Times's political coverage has completely imploded at the worst possible time  —  The New York Times's three-year struggle to sustain its reporting algorithms, built for two political parties that have comparable relationships to reality, collapsed into sordid heap of nonsense over the weekend.

Strict Vaccine Law Stumbles in N.J. Legislature  —  There were not enough votes in the State Senate to end religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for all students.  —  The New Jersey Legislature, seemingly on the verge of passing one of the strictest vaccine laws in the nation on Monday …

Liquor Taxes Could Go Up 400%, Thanks to Congressional Dysfunction  —  A temporary cut in federal taxes on alcohol fueled the growth of American distilleries, but its expiration threatens their demise.  —  The last two years have been good ones for Lyon Distilling.

How the Internet Came to Loathe Pete Buttigieg  —  Last month, after polls showed Pete Buttigieg vaulting unexpectedly to the lead in Iowa's Democratic caucus, he aired an ad introducing his plan for higher-education reform: a proposal to make public-college tuition free for households earning …

Chao's team helped McConnell's state win its largest DOT grant  —  Kentucky's largest transportation grant application under the Trump administration benefited from a process that the government's top watchdog said lacked “the assurance of fairness,” raising questions about whether the Department …