“He’s as critical a witness as anybody,” former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman told Newsweek. “We just didn’t know it quite as explicitly as we know now.” Pompeo has long been a key figure in the Ukraine scandal, having been a participant in the infamous July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. But new evidence suggests that the secretary of state was more deeply entrenched in the scheme than previously thought....

The in-person event marks Trump’s first election engagement outside the White House since he tested positive for the new coronavirus less than two weeks ago. It scheduled to take place at Orlando Sanford International Airport, with the president’s remarks slated to begin at 7 p.m. ET. Those interested in attending the rally can register through his campaign’s website and may arrive as early as 4 p.m., when doors open....

Trump suggested in comments in Arizona on Friday that he would launch another bid for the Oval Office but that a formal announcement wouldn’t happen until the elections in November. The former president has repeatedly teased another presidential campaign but has not made it official, fueling speculation that other candidates will jump into the race for the Republican nomination in 2024. Republicans are favored to win the House of Representatives in November, according to analysis from poll tracker FiveThirtyEight, while the Senate remains a toss-up....

In the closing days of the presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump is jetting around the country at a breakneck pace as he attempts another come-from-behind victory. He will headline events in Michigan, Southeast Florida and Western Pennsylvania. He’ll rally his supporters in Green Bay, Wisconsin; Rome, Georgia; and Opa-locka, Florida. He’s scheduled to visit eight states and as many as 16 counties, making his case for re-election from Friday through Monday, according to his campaign website....

Trump has now joined a growing list of world leaders who are confirmed to have contracted the disease. The president—who downplayed the severity of the virus in public early in the pandemic despite knowing how dangerous it was—is 74 years old, his age putting him at greater risk of potentially deadly complications. Indeed, Trump is the oldest world leader so far to have a confirmed coronavirus infection. While the overall survival rate for COVID-19 remains high, older patients—particularly men—are at higher risk of death from the virus....

In an interview with the Washington Examiner, published Monday, Trump Jr. put rumors to bed about a looming Senate run but even if he doesn’t seek to hold office, the former president’s eldest son has no plans to leave politics. He told the newspaper he’ll continue to build on his father’s campaign that focused on “hard-working men and women.” Former President Donald Trump’s namesake was his father’s fiercest defender while he was in office and has taken a similar path as his dad with regard to social media....

On Tuesday the Democrat-controlled committee announced it will release the former president’s tax returns within days, and said they had not been properly audited during his time in the White House. A report into six years of Trump’s tax affairs was also released by the committee, showing how his tax burden was reduced by claiming large annual losses. Trump controversially refused to release his tax returns when running for the presidency in 2016, or during his time in the White House....

The group was behind a pair of fatal attacks on Thursday at a security checkpoint leading to Hami Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Some 13 U.S. service members and at least 60 Afghans were killed in the attacks, in what marked the deadliest day for American troops since August 2011. ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, while the “K” stands for Khorasan, a historical region called Greater Khorasan that includes portions of Afghanistan and Pakistan....

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the launch of an impeachment inquiry on September 24 following whistleblower allegations that claim Trump asked a foreign leader to investigate a potential political rival. A July phone call, the summary transcript of which was released by the White House last week, reveals Trump discussed Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Aid to the Ukraine was held up around the time of the phone call....

Starting at 6:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at the Lincoln Memorial, Salute to America will host participants such as the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, the U.S. Army Band (“Pershing’s Own”), the Armed Forces Chorus and the United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Team. The gates will open at 3:30 p.m. local time. Access points are open from 10:00 a.m. President Trump will be making a speech during the event, and Abrams tanks and other military vehicles will be on display....

Oddschecker, which compares dozens of bookmakers, said there was “very little shift at all” in the market overnight on Thursday. Biden headed into the final debate as the “overwhelming favorite” to win, with his final debate odds of 1-6, implying he had an 85.69 percent chance of coming out on top in Tennessee, Oddschecker said. By comparison, Trump’s odds only implied he had a 36.4 percent chance of winning the debate....

That’s exactly what then-President Donald Trump said in 2020. While campaigning for the presidency, Biden accused Trump of “not having a plan” to beat COVID, while he himself did. Now, with this apparent reversal of his campaign message, Biden seems to be channeling the position championed by his predecessor, who said in April 2020 that the federal government should be a “backstop” for whatever states chose to do to control their health emergencies....

Andrew Torba, who founded the service in 2016, said that representatives of the former president’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner made the pitch: equity in the business in exchange for Trump to sign up and post his opinions to the site. As first reported by Forbes, Torba said that he had declined the telephone call proposal immediately, saying: ‘No, I’m not entertaining that." And it didn’t sound likely the CEO would change his mind in the future....

Trump, facing impeachment, is accused of trying to pressure Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy into interfering in the 2020 election by opening spurious corruption investigations into his political rivals, namely former Vice President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. Ambassador Gordon Sondland, who represents the U.S. to the European Union, testified to the House impeachment inquiry on Wednesday that Trump directed him through the president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to push Ukraine for a quid pro quo on the investigations....

Woods suffered serious injuries to his legs after a high-speed, single-vehicle car crash near Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. Woods was reportedly the only person in the vehicle. He was wearing his seatbelt and wasn’t impaired, according to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. Woods was taken to the Harbor-UCLA Trauma Center for surgery for compound leg fractures and a shattered ankle. Compound fractures refer to when the sharp edges of broken bones push through the skin....

A distant cousin of the president, Alice Mackay—related to Trump through his mother’s family, the McLeods—said the commander-in-chief is an unpleasant man who has never used any of his wealth to help his mother’s local community. The 79-year-old spoke in glowing terms about Trump’s late mother—Mary Anne MacLeod, who died in 2000—and his older sister—Maryanne Trump Barry, 82—saying they were both generous people who made many contributions to the Isle of Lewis, an island located in Scotland’s far northern Outer Hebrides archipelago....

Writing on his new blog, which the former president set up after he was banned from virtually all major social media sites, Trump claimed that the “major Michigan Election Fraud case” will show that votes were “intentionally switched” from him to Joe Biden in November. “The number of votes is MASSIVE and determinative. This will prove true in numerous other States. All Republicans must UNIFY and not let this happen,” Trump wrote on Monday....

“Today, I am going to ask NATO to become much more involved in the Middle East process,” Trump said Wednesday from the White House’s Grand Foyer. “Over the last three years, under my leadership, our economy is stronger than ever before and America has achieved energy independence.” His comments came the morning after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard conducted a missile attack on two Iraqi military bases housing U.S. and allied troops, a retaliatory move after Thursday’s killing of Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad....