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In a piece titled, “They Are Not the Resistance. They Are Not a Cabal. They Are Public Servants.

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Dale King rumbled into the parking lot in his military Jeep, a black 1940s-style clunker that he maneuvered with a skull-tipped stick shift. Heavy metal music blasted from the garage that he and some friends had converted to a gym for the neighboring addiction center. Patients from next door were packed inside wearing worn T-shirts, faded athletic gear, and other hand-me-downs. Half the class were barefoot.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration official who wrote an anonymous essay about resistance from the inside has a book deal. The book, titled ‘‘A Warning’’, will come out Nov. 19, The Hachette Book Group imprint Twelve announced Tuesday.

The author of an anonymous column in The New York Times in 2018, who was identified as a senior Trump administration official acting as part of the ‘‘resistance’’ inside the government, has written a tell-all book to be published next month. The book, titled ‘‘A Warning,’’ is being promoted as ‘‘an unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency’’ that expands upon the Times column, which ricocheted around the world and stoked the president’s rage because of its devastating portrayal of Donald Trump in office. The column described Trump’s leader

William Taylor, the United States’ top diplomat in Ukraine, testified Tuesday that President Trump was holding back military aid for Ukraine unless the country agreed to investigate Democrats and a company linked to Joe Biden’s family, providing lawmakers with a detailed new account of the quid pro quo central to the impeachment probe. In a lengthy opening statement to House investigators, Taylor described Trump’s demand that ‘‘everything’’ President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wanted, including vital aid to counter Russia, hinged on making a public vow that Ukraine would investigat

Democrats in the House turned aside a GOP-led privileged resolution to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman MORE (D-Calif.) on Monday in a straight party-line 218-185 vote. Republicans and MORE have increasingly targeted Schiff, a public face of the impeachment effort. They have taken issue with Schiff’s exaggerated account of the details of President Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a hearing in September.

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A top U.S. diplomat who raised concerns about the Trump administration’s decision to withhold aid to Ukraine is slated to testify Tuesday behind closed doors as House Democrats press ahead with their impeachment inquiry. Democrats are hoping to receive powerful testimony from William Taylor, a career foreign service official who has worked as chargé d’affaires for Ukraine since June.

Acting White House chief of staff MORE. The former South Carolina congressman’s ouster is not imminent, according to those familiar with his standing with the president, but he has drawn the ire of Trump’s allies. Trump did not respond to shouted questions about his chief of staff’s fate during a Cabinet meeting on Monday. But Mulvaney got a warm reception during a senior staff meeting on Monday morning and sources say many inside the White House are still satisfied with him. "Mick Mulvaney’s standing in the White House has not changed.