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  • impeachment Jan 22, 2020

    Senators Struggle to Stay Focused During Impeachment Trial

    Adam Schiff was still speaking — about witnesses, documents, future presidents and the impeachment of President Donald Trump. He’d said it all before, but five hours into the Senate trial Tuesday, Schiff, the lead prosecutor, was saying it again.

  • impeachment Jan 20, 2020

    Crimes? Impeachment Prosecutors, Defense Lay Out Arguments

    Advocates for and against President Donald Trump are giving no ground in the shadow of his Senate impeachment trial. The president’s defenders are arguing that his pressure on Ukraine broke no U.S., law, so it wasn’t impeachable in the first place. The House Democrats who are prosecuting the abuse and obstruction charges say there need be no crime and that...

  • impeachment inquiry Dec 19, 2019

    Impeachment Trial Plans in Disarray as Congress Heads Home

    Congress has headed home for the holidays leaving plans and a possible timeline for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in disarray. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Thursday that Senate Republicans must provide details on witnesses and testimony before she would send over the charges for Trump’s trial. No deal, replied Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after meeting with...

  • Donald Trump Mar 8, 2019

    Omar Praises House Vote as Condemning ‘Anti-Muslim Bigotry,' Other Bigotry

    Divided in debate but mostly united in a final vote, the House passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other bigotry. Democrats are trying to push past a dispute that has overwhelmed their agenda and exposed fault lines that could shadow them through next year’s elections. The one-sided 407-23 vote Thursday belied the emotional infighting over how to respond to freshman...

  • Congress Jan 12, 2019

    ‘Abhorrent and Racist': Republicans Slam GOP Rep. Steve King Over NYT Remarks

    House Republicans are criticizing a fellow GOP lawmaker for making what they say are “racist” comments. Rep. Steve King of Iowa was quoted in The New York Times as saying: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking House Republican, tweets that King’s remarks are “abhorrent and racist and...

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