Impeachment Hearings Live Updates: Republicans Question Vindman’s Loyalty The top Ukraine expert at the National Security Council testified that President Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president in which Mr. Trump asked for investigations of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was “inappropriate” and “a partisan play,” as Republicans raised questions about his loyalty and professionalism. Mr. Trump dismissed the impeachment hearings as “a big scam.” Go to Source
What to Expect From the Impeachment Inquiry Hearings Trump administration officials will testify about the president’s Ukraine call and efforts to pressure the country to announce investigations into his rivals. Go to Source
How Not to Plot Secret Foreign Policy: On a Cellphone and WhatsApp American officials expressed wonderment that Rudolph W. Giuliani was running his “irregular channel” of diplomacy over open cell lines and communications apps penetrated by the Russians. Go to Source
In Shift, U.S. Says Israeli Settlements in West Bank Do Not Violate International Law Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the reversal of decades of American policy that may doom any peace efforts. Go to Source
Trump’s Made-for-TV Trade War Has Few Entertained The president’s unpredictability and ongoing demands of China are complicating an end to the long-running dispute, experts say. Go to Source
Impeachment Investigators Exploring Whether Trump Lied to Mueller As part of the Russia inquiry, President Trump had given written answers to questions from Robert S. Mueller III. Go to Source
I.R.S. Whistle-Blower Met With Senate Staff Members The whistle-blower had filed a complaint accusing Treasury Department officials of improperly interfering with the handling of President Trump’s tax returns. Go to Source
A G.O.P. Star Emerges in Impeachment Hearings. Democratic Donors Notice. As Representative Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican, took a leading role in Friday’s impeachment hearing, donations came pouring in to her Democratic challenger. Go to Source
Iran Intel Leak: Main Takeaways From Secret Cables Leaked spy cables reveal how Iran came to dominate the political and military spheres in Iraq. Here’s what the hundreds of documents tell us. Go to Source
Hong Kong Protests: Campus Under Siege as Mask Ban Is Overturned The police offered protesters one way out of a besieged university campus, raining tear gas and rubber bullets on those who tried to flee. Go to Source
Backyard Shooting in Fresno Leaves 4 Dead and 6 Injured, Police Say At least one gunman opened fire on a crowd of friends and family watching a football game, the authorities said. No arrests have been made. Go to Source
‘No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News Paying attention to the impeachment inquiry and other developments means having to figure out what is true, false or spin. Many Americans are throwing up their hands and tuning it all out. Go to Source
Turkey’s Deportations Force Europe to Face Its ISIS Militants President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to send back foreign citizens who supported the Islamic State is handing Western Europe a problem it had hoped to avoid. Go to Source
Hong Kong Protests: Campus Siege Enters a Second Day as Court Overturns Mask Ban Students, armed with homemade weapons, remained bunkered down on a university campus awaiting a police operation to remove them. Go to Source
Trump Retreats From Flavor Ban for E-Cigarettes Advisers say the president pulled back from proposed restrictions intended to curb teenage vaping after he was warned of the political fallout among voters. Go to Source
Republicans Shift Defense of Trump, While He Attacks Another Witness With Gordon Sondland prepared to testify this week, Republicans backed away from complaints about secondhand information and instead offered a blunter defense: The president did nothing wrong. Go to Source
President Trump Bet Big This Election Year. Here’s Why He Lost. In Louisiana and Kentucky, Mr. Trump’s political pleas appeared to energize Democrats and political moderates as much as his own base, sending turnout in cities and suburbs soaring. Go to Source
Hong Kong Protests: Police Rush Barricades at University Campus, but Retreat in Face of Fire A siege at a university escalated early Monday morning as the police swooped in and threatened to use live rounds against antigovernment protesters. Go to Source
Inside Hong Kong’s Battle-Ready Campuses Classrooms may be empty, but universities are bustling with preparation for confrontations with the police. Go to Source
Michael Bloomberg Apologizes for Stop-and-Frisk: ‘I Was Wrong’ Ahead of a possible Democratic run for president, the former mayor of New York City reversed himself before an important party constituency: black voters. Go to Source
Why ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Inflamed Black and Hispanic Neighborhoods Michael Bloomberg has apologized for overseeing an expansion of the controversial street-stop program as mayor. Go to Source
How Elizabeth Warren Got to ‘Yes’ on Medicare for All Health care had not been a driving issue for the Massachusetts senator. But the expansive $20.5 trillion package could come to define her candidacy anyway. Go to Source
How FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0 The company, like much of corporate America, has not made good on its promised investment surge from President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. Go to Source
In Louisiana, a Narrow Win for John Bel Edwards and a Hard Loss for Trump John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, a rare Democratic governor in the South, was re-elected for a second term, beating back a challenger heavily supported by President Trump. Go to Source
Buttigieg Jumps Out to Lead in Iowa Poll Pete Buttigieg jumped out to a surprisingly robust lead in the latest Des Moines Register and CNN poll. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Joseph R. Biden Jr. were in a statistical tie for second. Go to Source
Too Far Left? Some Candidates Don’t Buy the Argument One day after former President Barack Obama cautioned against being out of touch with voters, Democratic candidates said there was a winner among them. Go to Source
Bolton and Trump Met Privately Over Withheld Aid, White House Official Testified John R. Bolton, who left the White House in September, has emerged as perhaps the most conspicuous witness who has evaded House Democrats as they build their case. Go to Source
Trump Went for a Medical Checkup That Was Not on His Public Schedule The White House said that the president wanted to get a head start on portions of his annual physical exam and that he was in good health. Go to Source
5 Takeaways From the Leaked Files on China’s Mass Detention of Muslims Hundreds of pages of internal papers offer new insight into how the program began, how it was justified even as the damage it caused was clear, and how some officials resisted it. Go to Source
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