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 The New York Times late Sunday made a major revision to a supposed bombshell piece concerning a new allegation of alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh -- hours after virtually all 2020 Democratic presidential candidates had cited the original article as a reason to impeach Kavanaugh.
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 Facing discontent and unheeded warnings from longtime supporters that he could lose the New Hampshire primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Sunday replaced the director of his presidential campaign operations in the Granite State.
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 Leah Millis/ReutersThe day after the New York Times dropped a story about new sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump took to Twitter in his defense as a growing cadre of Democratic presidential hopefuls called on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings.
The Times reported Saturday that Kavanaugh's Yale classmate Max Stier witnessed an incident at a dorm party in the 1980s during which Kavanaugh's naked penis was forcibly pushed into the hand of a female student.
The allegations match earlier claims by Deborah Ramirez who alleged that a pantsless Kavanaugh forced his penis towards her at the same Yale party. Stier said he told the FBI about the incident during Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, but the incident was not investigated.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Some Democratic presidential contenders and former U.S. attorneys have raised concerns the investigation during Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings was incomplete.
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 Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke defended his position on Sunday to ban assault-style weapons and impose mandatory buybacks of AR-15s and AK-47s amid growing Democratic criticism, while also pushing back at those critics, including South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
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 Democratic presidential candidates Beto O'Rourke and Pete Buttigieg clashed Sunday over O'Rourke's direct comment about his proposed mandatory gun-buyback program of assault-style rifles.
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2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang again responded to racist comments made by new "Saturday Night Live" hire Shane Gillis, saying he's faced Anti-Asian racism throughout his upbringing but also that "our country has become excessively punitive and vindictive about remarks that people find offensive or racist."
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