Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Gordon Sondland and Alexander Vindman in Post-Acquittal Purge  —  Emboldened by his victory and determined to strike back, the president removed Mr. Sondland as ambassador to the European Union after the White House earlier on Friday dismissed Colonel Vindman.

Exclusive NH Tracking Poll: Buttigieg Takes Lead Over Sanders In Tight New Hampshire Race  —  BOSTON (CBS) - Pete Buttigieg continued his rise in Friday night's exclusive WBZ/Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll, for the first time taking a narrow lead that falls within the survey's 4.4% margin of error.

“We're losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party  —  James Carville arrives for the annual JFK Profiles in Courage Award ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 20, 2018.  Paul Marotta/Getty Images  —  Why the longtime Democratic strategist is “scared to death” of the 2020 election.

Vice President Pence defends deficit expansion under Trump as necessary for economic growth  — Vice President Mike Pence defended deficit expansion under the Trump administration during a CNBC interview Friday, saying that debt and deficits are secondary concerns compared to economic growth.

As usual, Trump called me a sleaze.  But the audience reaction to his rant was more upsetting.  —  James B. Comey is a former director of the FBI and former deputy attorney general.  —  The most important thing that happened during President Trump's post-impeachment rant at the White House didn't happen at the lectern.

DOJ drops probe of carmakers that aligned with California on pollution  —  The Justice Department has ended its antitrust investigation of automakers who formed a voluntary deal with California to reduce air pollution — a probe that was one of a series of punitive Trump administration actions …

McConnell and the GOP Senate are accomplices to Trump's wrongdoing  —  Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, is speaker of the House of Representatives.  —  For more than 200 years, our republic has endured, not only because of the wisdom of our Founders and the brilliance of our Constitution …

Another Scandal at the DNC  —  Because of other disasters afflicting the Democratic Party in recent days, this story, from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, hasn't gotten a lot of attention.  But it fits with other recent instances of Democratic Party incompetence and worse: “Leaders of 2020 DNC Host Committee fired.”

Docs: Shadow Inc. Directly Tied to Left-Wing Media Operation  —  A company called Shadow earned instant infamy this week when an app it created to tabulate the results of the Iowa caucuses led to a statewide meltdown that has thrown the Democratic presidential campaign into disarray.

Steyer, Biden feud on debate stage over SC legislator's remarks about campaign payments  —  COLUMBIA — A dispute between South Carolina lawmakers over payments to one of them from a presidential campaign briefly became the center of attention during a nationally televised debate Friday night in New Hampshire.

Here's a new abuse of power by Trump that should alarm you  —  The big danger emerging from President Trump's acquittal isn't just that he has learned his whole party is unprepared to constrain any future abuse of power he undertakes.  It's that he has learned his party will …

Antarctica just hit 65 degrees, its warmest temperature ever recorded  —  It comes days after earth's warmest January on record.  —  Just days after the earth saw its warmest January on record, Antarctica has broken its warmest temperature ever recorded.  A reading of 65 degrees was taken …

The Age of Decadence  —  Cut the drama.  The real story of the West in the 21st century is one of stalemate and stagnation.  —  An Opinion columnist and the author of the forthcoming book “The Decadent Society,” from which this essay is adapted.  —  Everyone knows that we live …

Why Would a Billionaire Charge the Secret Service $650 a Night?  —  Last year, Eric Trump was asked about Secret Service protection at Trump Organization properties.  —  “If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free,” he said.  “So everywhere that he goes, if he stays at one of his places …

New York to Sue Trump Administration Over Global Entry Freeze  —  The lawsuit will challenge the federal government's decision to bar New Yorkers from enrolling in programs that allow travelers to skip lines at airports.  —  New York State officials said on Friday that they planned to sue …

Mike Bloomberg Is Paying ‘Influencers’ to Make Him Seem Cool  —  The Bloomberg campaign is trying an ad strategy familiar to every other startup with a ton of cash and a questionable business model: paying influencers to make it seem cool.  —  One day after the Iowa caucuses were effectively botched …

The Woman Defending Harvey Weinstein … In the trial of Harvey Weinstein, six women have taken the stand, each making similar accusations of rape and sexual assault against the movie producer.  Throughout their testimony, Weinstein's defense lawyers have portrayed those encounters as consensual …

1. Use of Force  —  Presidents from both parties have taken an expansive view of their powers as commander in chief, deploying troops and ordering airstrikes without explicit congressional approval and, sometimes, without an imminent threat.  The Democratic candidates frequently criticize such actions …

Trump is now free to take revenge against those who wronged him during impeachment.  Insiders told me it won't be pretty  —  'I think of myself along with other people who've spoken out consistently against him as being incredibly vulnerable'  —  On May 2nd, 2011, Americans watched …