Sondland acted at Trump’s behest, senior official says
Tim Morrison, the top Russia and Europe adviser on the National Security Council, told House investigators that Gordon Sondland's "mandate from the president was to go make deals."
The Lehigh Cement plant stands out above Nazareth, Pa. (Michael S. Williamson/The Post)
In a battleground town, sharp divisions over impeachment but few changed minds
A white working-class Democratic stronghold in Pennsylvania voted for Barack Obama before flipping to Donald Trump in 2016. But don’t expect to hear a debate about impeachment. With Trump, the battle lines were drawn long ago.
Election 2019Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards wins reelection
The Democratic incumbent was forced into a runoff against Trump ally and businessman Eddie Rispone after neither won an absolute majority in last month's election.
Campaign 2020Buttigieg leaps ahead of Democratic rivals in Iowa, new poll shows
The South Bend, Ind., mayor has 25 percent support among likely caucusgoers; Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are in a three-way tie for second place.
Avera eCare employees sit at virtual emergency room workstations at a telemedicine center in Sioux Falls, S.D. (Michael S. Williamson/The Post)
Dr. Kelly Rhone surveys a large map that notes the client hospitals that use the virtual ER services offered by Avera eCare. (Michael S. Williamson/The Post)
Nurse Jennifer Canton talks via video with Amy Gruen, who brought her son, Silas, to a hospital in Abilene, Kan. (Michael S. Williamson/The Post)
Via video link, Dr. Katie DeJong guides members of an ER staff through a difficult intubation procedure. (Michael S. Williamson/The Post)
The most remote emergency room: Life and death in rural America
If anything defines the growing health gap between rural and urban America, it’s the rise of emergency telemedicine in the poorest, sickest, and most remote parts of the country, where the choice is increasingly to have a doctor on screen or no doctor at all. These physicians, often hundreds of miles away, work out of cubicles instead of exam rooms.
The standoff began early with police pummeling front line protesters with water cannons firing irritating blue liquid. At one point, an officer was struck in the calf with an arrow.
Pyongyang said cancellation of the exercises would be seen as a positive gesture but threatened “shocking punishment” if the United States went ahead with a “hostile provocation.”
The appointment wasn’t on President Trump’s weekend public schedule. Press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Trump, 73, wanted to take advantage of “a free weekend.”
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