The Smoking Sword: The CIA has evidence that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was in close contact with the aide in charge of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi while the hit was being carried out, The NY Times reports. The adviser, …

Trade Truce: President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinpingcalled a truce in their trade war yesterday after talking at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires. Trump agreed to stop the imposition of new tariffs and Xi promised that China would …

The 41st President: George HW Bush, the one-term 41st President of the United States and father of the 43rd, has died at age 94. He was the last of the World War II generation to hold the office. The former …

The Trumpster Fire: President Trump’s former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty yesterday to lying to Congress about President Trump’s negotiations to build a hotel in Moscow during the 2016 campaign. It’s his second guilty plea. Cohen testified that …

The Trumpster Fire: President Trump keeps melting down without quite being reduced to a puddle of orange goo. Fixated on the Special Counsel investigation, the President has begun saying the country is in a new McCarthy era. He told The …

Fatal Malfunction:Data from the flight recorder reveals that the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610, which crashed into the Java Sea last month, were fighting to keep the plane aloft almost from the moment of taking off. “The pilots fought …

Pants on Fire: Former Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort lied even after agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors, according to a filing yesterday by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. What was he thinking? If he lied, Manafort loses his chance for a …

Winter Arrives: The first major winter storm of the year stretches all the way from Kansas City to Chicago and Detroit this morning. As much as a foot of snow is expected in some areas. Heavy rain and some flooding …

South of the Border: The incoming Mexican government is denying reports — and claims by President Trump — that it has agreed to hold asylum seekers in Mexico while their cases wend through American courts. “There is no agreement of …

No Denial: The first climate change report issued under the Trump administration says undeniable effects of global warming present a threat to human health and the economy while feeding the power of natural disasters. It says the economy could shrink …