Politics
A Watchdog Group Is Asking A Judge To Order Trump To Preserve Records Of All Calls With Foreign Leaders
A lawsuit filed in May accusing the White House of failing to create and preserve records of the Trump administration’s calls with foreign leaders suddenly got a lot more urgent.
Zoe Tillman
The Sunrise Movement Is Building An Army In The Early 2020 States
“Our top priority is to build an army of young people to elect a candidate in the caucuses who will be a champion of the Green New Deal,” said one organizer.
Zahra Hirji
People Are Worried Applying For College Financial Aid Could Be A Total Mess This Year
Students will have to manually enter some information into the FAFSA, raising concerns that errors will make people ineligible for aid.
Venessa Wong
Congress Wants Answers From Two Men Who Led Smear Campaign Against Biden — Under Giuliani's Direction
Congress is demanding information from two men who carried out a campaign to discredit Joe Biden under Giuliani's direction.
Michael Sallah
The Trump Administration Will Have To Pay $6.6 Million So Far To Groups That Sued Over The Census Citizenship Question
The Justice Department reached $3.9 million in settlements with challengers in Maryland, new documents show. That's on top of the $2.7 million the administration already agreed to pay the ACLU.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Never Accepted Russia’s Role In His Election. His Denial May Get Him Impeached.
Of course the extremely cursed time we are living through — Ukraine, Barr, the impeachment inquiry, all of it — goes back to Trump’s obsession with Russia.
Hayes Brown
Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo Was Also Reportedly On Trump's Ukraine Call
Pompeo would be the highest-ranking official in the Trump administration with personal knowledge of the call.
Claudia Koerner
Twitter Is OK With A Pro-Trump Militia's Tweets About A "Full-Blown 'Hot' Civil War"
When is promoting violent extremism not promoting violent extremism? When Twitter says so.
Ryan Broderick
Two Top Democrats Have Already “Botched” Impeachment, Their Primary Challengers Say
“He’s basically avoided doing everything he can to hold this president accountable."
Kadia Goba
Kamala Harris Has Missed Her Chances So Far. Will Impeachment Be Any Different?
Kamala Harris the presidential candidate often doesn’t look like Kamala Harris the prosecutor.
Molly Hensley-Clancy
Confused By The Impeachment Process? This Flowchart Should Help.
The impeachment process visualized.
Ben King
"This Is Not About Me": Joe Biden Is Trying To Keep The Impeachment Inquiry’s Focus On Trump
Biden held his first public campaign event on Friday since the announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry against Trump.
Nidhi Prakash
Some Democrats Are Skipping Their Two-Week Vacation To Keep Working On Impeachment
The chairs of three House committees have already subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents and have begun scheduling depositions.
Addy Baird
Maxine Waters Says Mike Pence And The Attorney General Were Involved In The Ukraine “Conspiracy”
“They’re all involved,” Waters told BuzzFeed News’ AM to DM on Friday.
Sarah Mimms
A New Senate Report Shows How The NRA Built A Close Relationship With Russia
“We’ve worked for 7 years to build trust with the Russians,” the wife of a former NRA president wrote.
Emma Loop
Republicans Say The Real Problem Is That Trump’s Conversation With The Ukrainian President Leaked
“I don’t know how the hell he can be president under these conditions, it’s just incredible,” Sen. Lindsey Graham said.
Paul McLeod
Democrats Want To Impeach Trump Over A Number Of Scandals, But Say They’ll Focus Solely On Ukraine
Mueller who?
Addy Baird
The White House Says Congress Can't Force Trump's Senior Advisers To Testify. A Judge Is About To Test That.
Democrats will almost certainly want to hear from White House officials named in the newly released whistleblower complaint. A judge next month will consider the administration's claim that Trump's senior advisers are "absolutely" immune.
Zoe Tillman
A Whistleblower Has Alleged Trump "Abused His Office For Personal Gain" — And That The White House Tried To Cover It Up
The complaint’s release comes after the White House put out a non-verbatim transcript of Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president in which Trump wanted dirt dug up on Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election.
Sarah Mimms
Former French Leader Jacques Chirac Has Died
"President Jacques Chirac died this morning surrounded by his family, peacefully," his son-in-law confirmed.
Rose Troup Buchanan
Texts With Mayor Pete: He's "Doing Well With The Mother-In-Law Vote"
In The Stakes 2020, BuzzFeed News' newsletter about the 2020 campaign, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg texted with us about the media and the generational divide among voters.
Ben Smith
Trump Didn’t Explicitly Threaten To Withhold Military Aid In His Call With Ukraine’s President. He Didn't Have To.
Support from the US is key to Ukraine, both in a practical sense and as a signal to Russia. Ukraine didn't need the reminder.
Miriam Elder
Democrats Still Hope Mitt Romney Will Take On Trump
Romney said the latest Trump allegations were “deeply troubling.” Merely expressing grave concerns may not seem like a radical act, but in Washington in 2019 it’s enough to make you a unique case as a Republican.
Paul McLeod
Trump's Own Lawyers Suggested Democrats Would Have A Stronger Case To Get His Records If They Were Pursuing Impeachment
Life comes at you fast.
Zoe Tillman
Progressive Groups Are Urging Democratic Leaders Not To Take A Vacation Until The President’s Impeached
In a letter to Democratic leaders, two progressive groups said they “respectfully demand that House leadership cancel [its upcoming break] and immediately get to work impeaching this lawless president.”
Addy Baird
Democrats Say Trump’s Ukraine Call Was “Far More Damning” Than They Expected
Trump’s explicit request that the Ukrainian president help dig up dirt on Joe Biden is “exactly the crime that we were concerned about,” one House Democratic leader said.
Addy Baird
The Republican Presidential Primary Debate Was A Rare Rebuke Of Trump In His Own Party. Hardly Anyone Was Watching.
The debate between Bill Weld and Joe Walsh was hardly a debate: They agreed that Trump has to go and hoped that their party was listening.
Rosie Gray
5 Moments In Donald Trump’s Phone Call To Ukraine That Could Fuel The Impeachment Investigation
“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son... so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great.”
Zoe Tillman
“It Has Taken Longer Than I Would Have Hoped”: Tom Steyer Is Thrilled The House Is Finally On Board With Impeachment
The Democratic presidential candidate spent millions on his "Need to Impeach" campaign after founding it in 2017.
Kadia Goba
The Ukraine Story Is A Much Easier Sell Than The Mueller Report Ever Was, Pro-Impeachment Democrats Say
“He's just coming out and saying, ‘Yeah, I did it, and yeah, my office held up the money.’"
Addy Baird
