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(CNN) — The third Senate impeachment trial of a US president in history convened on Thursday with the reading of the two impeachment articles charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The seven House impeachment managers who will prosecute the case against the President marched the articles from the House

(CNN) — The Government Accountability Office says the Trump administration broke the law when it withheld US security aid to Ukraine last year that had been appropriated by Congress — an issue at the center of the impeachment of President Donald Trump. In a decision issued Thursday, the GAO said that the White House budget

(CNN) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an initial trade deal with China that includes pledges from Beijing to more than double its purchases from American farmers in the first year. The 86-page agreement comes after nearly two years of fraught negotiations and a punishing trade war between the world’s two largest economies that

(CNN) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday morning named seven House Democrats who will serve as impeachment managers in the Senate trial and act as prosecutors by presenting the case against President Donald Trump in the Ukraine scandal, a long-awaited move that sets up the next phase of the impeachment fight. The managers are:

(CNN) — The stakes were high when Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren met at Warren’s apartment in Washington, DC, one evening in December 2018. The longtime friends knew that they could soon be running against each other for president. The two agreed that if they ultimately faced each other as presidential candidates, they should remain

(CNN) — Sen. Cory Booker announced Monday that he will end his campaign after failing to qualify for the Democratic debate planned for Tuesday in Iowa. “It was a difficult decision to make, but I got in this race to win, and I’ve always said I wouldn’t continue if there was no longer a path

(CNN) — On the same night the US killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, the US unsuccessfully targeted another senior Iranian military official in Yemen, according to a US official with knowledge of the events and another source familiar. The sources would not give any details about the mission or how the US had attempted to

(CNN) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she’s preparing to send the impeachment articles to the Senate next week to start the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. “I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the Floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles

(CNN) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there won’t be a vote Friday to name impeachment managers, a sign that the weeks long impasse over starting the Senate impeachment trial into President Donald Trump will continue at least into next week. “No,” she Pelosi told reporters Friday when asked if she would hold a vote

(CNN) — Two rockets landed inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, home of the US Embassy in Iraq, on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Iraqi military. The Iraqi joint military command told CNN in Baghdad that “two Katyusha rockets landed inside the Green Zone in Baghdad. No reports of casualties. ” The incident

(CNN) — President Donald Trump, facing the gravest test of his presidency to date, struck a somber tone Wednesday, announcing no Americans were harmed in Iran’s retaliatory attacks against Iraqi bases housing US troops. During a White House statement, Trump also signaled a de-escalation of tensions, stating: “Iran appears to be standing down. “”We suffered

(CNN) — President Donald Trump will not deliver an address on Tuesday night, a White House official said. Aides had been making preparations for a possible address to the nation after Iran fired missiles at US forces in Iraq. But an official now says Trump won’t appear before cameras Tuesday evening.

(CNN) — A US official told CNN that the attacks at two Iraqi bases that hold US troops did not inflict any US casualties, but an assessment is underway. There are casualties among the Iraqis at Ain al-Asad airbase following the attack, an Iraqi security source tells CNN. The number of casualties and whether the

(CNN) — At least 10 rockets hit al-Asad airbase in Iraq, which houses US forces, a Sunni commander of the paramilitary forces in a nearby town told CNN. Qatri al-Obeidi, a commander in the nearby town of al-Baghdadi, said that the shelling has stopped for now. President Donald Trump visited the base in December 2018

(CNN) — US Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Tuesday that although the US is not seeking a war with Iran, it is “prepared to finish one. “”We are not looking to start a war with Iran, but we are prepared to finish one,” Esper told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

(CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to have the votes to set the ground rules of the impeachment trial for President Donald Trump — without Democrats’ support, according to Republican senators. All McConnell needs is 51 senators — or a simple majority of the 100-member chamber — and several key Republicans. Sens. Susan

(CNN) — President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser Michael Flynn should serve up to six months in jail, prosecutors told a federal judge on Tuesday, saying Flynn has failed to accept responsibility for his actions and undermined a separate criminal case. The sentencing memo shows just how harshly the Justice Department responds to Flynn’s

(CNN) — Former White House national security adviser John Bolton said Monday he is willing to testify in the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump if Bolton is subpoenaed. “Accordingly, since my testimony is once again at issue, I have had to resolve the serious competing issues as best I could, based on careful

(CNN) — Joe Biden continues to hold a lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for president and remains the candidate potential Democratic voters think has the best shot to defeat Donald Trump, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. Biden has the backing of about a quarter (26%) of registered voters

(CNN) — The House of Representatives took the historic step to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, charging a president with high crimes and misdemeanors for just the third time in American history. The House voted almost entirely along party lines to charge Trump with abuse of power with a vote of 230 ayes to197

(CNN) — The House of Representatives took the historic step to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, charging a president with high crimes and misdemeanors for just the third time in American history. The House voted almost entirely along party lines to charge Trump with abuse of power. The House will now immediately vote on

(CNN) — The House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to approve a nearly $1. 4 trillion spending deal that would fund the government through fiscal year 2020 and avert the looming threat of a shutdown amid a historic impeachment push. The sweeping package includes a military and civilian federal worker pay raise, federal funding for

(CNN) — Rick Gates, one of the most significant former Trump campaign advisers who flipped on President Donald Trump in the Mueller investigation, was sentenced to 45 days in jail and three years probation by a federal judge Tuesday morning. Gates, a longtime deputy to 2016 Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort who shared searing details

(CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday rejected calls from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to allow witnesses at an expected Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. “We don’t create impeachments,” he said in remarks prepared for delivery on the Senate floor. “We judge them. “”The House chose this road. It is

(CNN) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider whether the House and a New York prosecutor can subpoena President Donald Trump’s longtime accounting firm and banks for his financial records, two monumental disputes concerning separation of powers and Trump’s broad claims of immunity that will be decided in the heart of the presidential

(CNN) — The House Judiciary Committee on Friday voted to approve two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, sending impeachment of the President to the House floor after a bitter and contentious committee debate that stretched over three days. The judiciary panel approved the impeachment articles on two party line votes following a surprise

(CNN) — Democratic leaders announced Tuesday they will bring two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and setting up the third impeachment of a US president in history. The House Democratic chairs who led the investigations against the President formally unveiled the impeachment articles

(CNN) — House Democrats plan to move forward with at least two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, one on abuse of power and the other obstruction of Congress, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. A third article on obstruction of justice is still being debated, and the sources cautioned