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Republicans aim to lock in votes against witnesses as Senate prepares for next phase of trial

January 28, 2020 4:47 PM CNN

The impeachment trial is approaching a volatile and unpredictable stage after President Donald Trump’s defense team wrapped up its opening…

Kansas lawmakers renew effort to outlaw sexual battery against a spouse

January 28, 2020 4:24 PM CNN

Kansas lawmakers are renewing bipartisan efforts to make sexual battery of a spouse illegal. The state House Judiciary Committee on Monday voted to…

Justice Department moves to thwart global robocall scheme

January 28, 2020 4:21 PM CNN

The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal judge to shut down a scheme involving companies in New York and Arizona that connect hundreds of…

Alan Dershowitz says Elizabeth Warren ‘doesn’t understand the law’ after she criticizes his presentation

January 28, 2020 4:20 PM CNN

President Donald Trump’s attorney Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday shot back at Sen. Elizabeth Warren after the Massachusetts Democrat assailed his…

Alan Dershowitz called Trump corrupt in 2016 and said he could be corrupt as President

January 28, 2020 4:10 PM CNN

Law professor Alan Dershowitz, who is a member of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team, said in 2016 that he believed Trump was…

Coronavirus will test the Trump administration’s ability to handle a crisis

January 28, 2020 4:08 PM CNN

President Donald Trump was sitting for breakfast with American business leaders last week when the conversation turned to the dangerous new virus…

Buttigieg vows to work harder on diversity and inclusion in response to staffers’ concerns

January 28, 2020 4:08 PM CNN

Pete Buttigieg‘s presidential campaign acknowledged on Tuesday that it has, over the course of several months, responded to concerns from…

Poll: 75% of voters want witnesses for Senate impeachment trial

January 28, 2020 4:02 PM CNN

Three-quarters of registered voters think witnesses should be allowed to testify in the Senate impeachment trial, which has reached a crucial…

Trump unveils Middle East plan that caters to Israel and was swiftly rejected by Palestinians

January 28, 2020 3:47 PM CNN

President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed a Middle East plan that he claimed was a “realistic two-state solution” but caters to nearly…

Trump legal team wraps up opening arguments in Senate impeachment trial, dismisses Bolton allegations

January 28, 2020 10:11 AM ABC News

WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team on Tuesday wrapped up three days of opening arguments at his Senate trial…

Democrats look to flip red Texas House seat in runoff election

January 28, 2020 3:25 PM CNN

Democrat Elizabeth Markowitz is facing off on Tuesday against Republican Gary Gates in a Texas House runoff election that could provide a glimpse of…

Joe Biden is using Trump’s impeachment attacks to show Democrats he ‘can take a punch’

January 28, 2020 3:20 PM CNN

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…

Kushner defends Trump’s Middle East plan after Palestinian rejection

January 28, 2020 2:41 PM CNN

Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner made the case for President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan Tuesday, praising the relationship his…

GOP senator says they’ve ‘got to be able to see’ Bolton manuscript before witness vote

January 28, 2020 2:24 PM CNN

Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma said Tuesday that senators participating in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial have…

Harvard professor among three charged with lying about Chinese government ties

January 28, 2020 2:12 PM CNN

A Harvard University professor and two other Chinese nationals were federally indicted in three separate cases for allegedly lying to the US about…

CBO projects a decade of trillion-dollar deficits and soaring US debt

January 28, 2020 2:09 PM CNN

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…

Barr says Justice Department will get more involved in fighting anti-Semitic attacks

January 28, 2020 1:46 PM CNN

Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department will become more involved in combating hate crimes against the Jewish community as the…

Condoleezza Rice to helm Stanford public policy think tank

January 28, 2020 1:42 PM CNN

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be the next director of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank,…

South Dakota state lawmaker says he regrets drawing comparison between transgender medical procedures and Nazi doctor experiments

January 28, 2020 1:40 PM CNN

A South Dakota state lawmaker said Tuesday that he regrets recently comparing doctors who assist in the gender reassignment process for transgender…

Donald Trump just praised Mike Pompeo for berating an NPR reporter. Yup, really.

January 28, 2020 1:28 PM CNN

President Donald Trump took time — in the midst of announcing his administration’s long-awaited but likely-to-fail plan for Middle East…

Why expectations matter in Iowa

January 28, 2020 12:42 PM CNN

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…

The real reason Kelly Loeffler attacked Mitt Romney over impeachment

January 28, 2020 12:13 PM CNN

The attack came seemingly out of the blue. On Monday afternoon, newly appointed Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler tweeted this: “After 2…

Ex-WH chief of staff Kelly says he believes Bolton’s account of Ukraine allegation

January 28, 2020 11:51 AM CNN

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly says he believes John Bolton’s allegation that President Donald Trump told the former national…

GOP senator questions if Iowa Democrats will support Biden after impeachment trial

January 28, 2020 11:15 AM CNN

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa suggested Monday that President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial could damage Joe Biden’s presidential…

The deep electoral roots of the Senate’s impeachment standoff

January 28, 2020 10:51 AM CNN

The virtually lockstep Republican defense of President Donald Trump so far during his impeachment trial marks a new milestone in the Senate’s…

Republicans take a deep breath after initial Bolton scare

January 28, 2020 10:22 AM CNN

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…

House Democrats not invited to trade deal bill signing at White House

January 28, 2020 9:46 AM CNN

When President Donald Trump signs his revised North American Free Trade Agreement agreement at the White House on Wednesday, congressional Democrats…

Trump legal team dismisses Bolton book storm

January 28, 2020 9:27 AM CNN

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…

Impeachment state of play: Will the Senate call witnesses? It’s fluid.

January 28, 2020 8:34 AM CNN

The Senate impeachment trial has entered perhaps its most fluid phase — one where the White House is still technically presenting its defense,…

The one thing you absolutely can’t say about the Bolton bombshell

January 28, 2020 7:58 AM CNN

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…