Trump unveils Middle East plan that caters to Israel and was swiftly rejected by Palestinians
President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed a Middle East plan that he claimed was a “realistic two-state solution” but caters to nearly…
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Trump legal team wraps up opening arguments in Senate impeachment trial, dismisses Bolton allegations
WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team on Tuesday wrapped up three days of opening arguments at his Senate trial…
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Democrats look to flip red Texas House seat in runoff election
Democrat Elizabeth Markowitz is facing off on Tuesday against Republican Gary Gates in a Texas House runoff election that could provide a glimpse of…
Continue Reading Joe Biden is using Trump’s impeachment attacks to show Democrats he ‘can take a punch’
Joe Biden had a question for the crowd gathered to see him in Muscatine, Iowa, on Tuesday: “Did anyone see what your senator, Joni Ernst, did…
Continue Reading Kushner defends Trump’s Middle East plan after Palestinian rejection
Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner made the case for President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan Tuesday, praising the relationship his…
Continue Reading GOP senator says they’ve ‘got to be able to see’ Bolton manuscript before witness vote
Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma said Tuesday that senators participating in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial have…
Continue Reading Harvard professor among three charged with lying about Chinese government ties
A Harvard University professor and two other Chinese nationals were federally indicted in three separate cases for allegedly lying to the US about…
Continue Reading CBO projects a decade of trillion-dollar deficits and soaring US debt
The federal deficit is projected to keep rising over the coming decade, driving US debt to the highest level since World War II over the next 10…
Continue Reading Barr says Justice Department will get more involved in fighting anti-Semitic attacks
Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department will become more involved in combating hate crimes against the Jewish community as the…
Continue Reading Condoleezza Rice to helm Stanford public policy think tank
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be the next director of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank,…
Continue Reading South Dakota state lawmaker says he regrets drawing comparison between transgender medical procedures and Nazi doctor experiments
A South Dakota state lawmaker said Tuesday that he regrets recently comparing doctors who assist in the gender reassignment process for transgender…
Continue Reading Donald Trump just praised Mike Pompeo for berating an NPR reporter. Yup, really.
President Donald Trump took time — in the midst of announcing his administration’s long-awaited but likely-to-fail plan for Middle East…
Continue Reading Why expectations matter in Iowa
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders could be surging at just the right time. He’s ahead in some of the highest quality polls coming out of Iowa with a…
Continue Reading The real reason Kelly Loeffler attacked Mitt Romney over impeachment
The attack came seemingly out of the blue. On Monday afternoon, newly appointed Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler tweeted this: “After 2…
Continue Reading Ex-WH chief of staff Kelly says he believes Bolton’s account of Ukraine allegation
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly says he believes John Bolton’s allegation that President Donald Trump told the former national…
Continue Reading GOP senator questions if Iowa Democrats will support Biden after impeachment trial
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa suggested Monday that President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial could damage Joe Biden’s presidential…
Continue Reading The deep electoral roots of the Senate’s impeachment standoff
The virtually lockstep Republican defense of President Donald Trump so far during his impeachment trial marks a new milestone in the Senate’s…
Continue Reading Republicans take a deep breath after initial Bolton scare
Republican senators began Monday in a bad spot. They ended it feeling like they were in a better one, at least for now. What changed? A late-morning…
Continue Reading House Democrats not invited to trade deal bill signing at White House
When President Donald Trump signs his revised North American Free Trade Agreement agreement at the White House on Wednesday, congressional Democrats…
Continue Reading Trump legal team dismisses Bolton book storm
Donald Trump’s legal team will wrap up its defense of the President in a short two-hour summing-up on Tuesday after arguing that new…
Continue Reading Impeachment state of play: Will the Senate call witnesses? It’s fluid.
The Senate impeachment trial has entered perhaps its most fluid phase — one where the White House is still technically presenting its defense,…
Continue Reading The one thing you absolutely can’t say about the Bolton bombshell
In the wake of The New York Times report that former national security adviser John Bolton has written in a soon-to-be-published manuscript that…
Continue Reading Joni Ernst just said the quiet part out loud about the Senate impeachment trial
Sometimes politicians can’t help themselves. They get careless. They say stuff they shouldn’t say. They tell the truth that they have…
Continue Reading Union asks court to remove restrictions on federal employees discussing impeachment
A federal judge is preparing to hear arguments about whether federal employees should be limited in discussing the ongoing impeachment trial of…
Continue Reading 8 things you might have missed in the final days before the Iowa caucuses
Nine days from the Iowa caucuses, Democratic presidential candidates are fighting bad winter weather and the headwinds of an impeachment trial…
Continue Reading ‘I don’t want to be deported’: Inside the tent courts on the US-Mexico border
In a trailer located a stone’s throw away from Mexico, a mom cradled her two young sons, a little girl sat on her dad’s lap, and a boy…
Continue Reading New York Times: Bolton wrote he was concerned Trump was granting favors to autocratic leaders
President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton claims to have privately told Attorney General William Barr last year…
Continue Reading Bolton blows the impeachment case back open
In reality, where we all live, the White House and Republicans scrambled Monday to deal with the situation created by John Bolton, who has blown the…
Continue Reading Senate impeachment trial: Trump’s defense soldiers past Bolton revelations
The revelations contained in the draft manuscript of former national security adviser John Bolton have upended the impeachment trial of President…
Continue Reading It’s Ken Starr vs. Ken Starr on impeachment
The impeachment of President Bill Clinton in the last years of the 1990s was a deeply divisive fight akin to a “domestic” war —…
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