Ex-officials say they feared Putin influenced Trump’s views on Ukraine and 2016
One former senior White House official said President Trump even stated so explicitly at one point, saying he knew Ukraine was the real culprit because “Putin told me.”
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Analysis What Adam Schiff hopes will come out during the Senate impeachment trial
The House Intelligence Committee chairman sees documents now concealed by the White House as even more important than testimony.
Campaign 2020The ACA court ruling is a political gift to Democrats. But candidates at the debate disregarded it.
Congressional Democrats immediately began punching at Republicans over a decision that invalidated part of the Affordable Care Act, after their defense of the law helped them win control of the House last year.
The women asked for forgiveness, the men tried to sell their books: The gender split in one telling debate moment
When asked what gift they would give a rival, the two women onstage, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, both offered contrite responses while the men talked about gifting their own ideas.
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Readings from the Sonnblick Observatory, perched in the Austrian Alps, show a warming of 2.1 degrees Celsius since it opened in 1886.
2°C: Beyond The Limit
How we know global warming is real
A trove of weather data from centuries past is being used to compare how the world’s climate used to be with how it is now. The observations from those dusty archives point to the possibility of even more precipitous warming.
A major funder of the anti-vaccine movement has made millions selling natural health products
In the past decade, entrepreneur Joseph Mercola has contributed more than $2.9 million to the National Vaccine Information Center, accounting for about 40 percent of the organization’s funding, according to the most recent available tax records.
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NASA said plans for the Starliner to rendezvous with the space station had been canceled after what officials called a possible software problem.
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service authorized police to charge American Anne Sacoolas in the case of Harry Dunn.
George Nichols, an expert in evaluating child abuse who also served as Kentucky’s chief medical examiner for 20 years, told the Louisville Courier-Journal that former governor Matt Bevin “clearly doesn’t know medicine and anatomy.”
Retropolis
The Past, Rediscovered Fifteen black students at Tulane University, dressed in white lab coats that convey their status as future doctors, line up in front of a symbol of slavery at the Whitney Plantation. They wear expressions of resolve.
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Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker. A levitating Yoda. And the greatest duel of them all.
The revamped show emphasizes interviews and social impact initiatives over bikinis and evening gowns.
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Advice columnist Carolyn Hax takes readers' questions about the strange train we call life.
By The Way
This 88-year-old woman boarded her seven-hour flight. Then a man surprised her with his business-class ticket.
“No fuss, no attention, literally did it out of the kindness of his own heart,” a flight attendant wrote in a viral Facebook post.
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The 10 recipes our readers loved most this year
Readers like you voted with your clicks. Now it's time to get cooking.
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Bowl games should be named after things that grow from the ground. (But Cheez-It can stay.)
There are too many bowls named after places or products. Here are some suggestions.
