FEMA nominee says he does not know the causes of climate change
The Trump administration’s nominee to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency repeatedly said Thursday he doesn’t know the reasons…
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State Department watchdog finds Trump appointees smeared career employee
High-ranking Trump administration political appointees within the State Department improperly retaliated against a career civil servant, according to…
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Bill Taylor was everything Democrats hoped he would be. And everything Republicans feared he might be. Taylor, the top diplomat in Ukraine, was…
Continue Reading Impeachment hearings air to a divided nation
As the first public impeachment hearing in more than two decades aired Wednesday, Americans watched the spectacle unfold with curiosity, skepticism…
Continue Reading CNN and The Des Moines Register to release 2020 Iowa caucus poll Saturday
CNN and The Des Moines Register will release their fifth Iowa poll on Saturday, providing a look as to where 2020 presidential candidates stand in…
Continue Reading With a focus on Ukraine, Trump made 67 false claims last week
President Donald Trump made 67 false claims last week, 27 of them related to Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. This was the sixth consecutive…
Continue Reading Here’s how the impeachment hearings will work
The first public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump began this week, with Bill Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine,…
Continue Reading Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner host book party on first night of impeachment hearings
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, two of President Donald Trump’s senior advisers, threw a book party on the evening of the first public…
Continue Reading House committee subpoenas agency for Trump DC hotel documents
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee issued a subpoena to the General Services Administration on Thursday for documents concerning…
Continue Reading The Democratic field is a mess with Iowa just 81 days away
There are two races happening at the moment in the 2020 Democratic presidential contest. The first features the top tier: Sens. Bernie Sanders…
Continue Reading Michael Bloomberg to skip New Hampshire primary
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will not file for the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, a senior Bloomberg adviser confirmed…
Continue Reading Kellyanne Conway says ‘nothing new’ in impeachment hearing despite new revelations
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway argued Thursday that there was “nothing new” in the first public hearing of the impeachment…
Continue Reading Appeals court hands Trump another loss, saying Congress can seek his tax returns
An appeals court has denied for the second time President Donald Trump’s attempt to stop an accounting firm from turning over his financial…
Continue Reading New revelations from first public hearings paint damning portrait of Trump
Dramatic new disclosures on Day 1 of the House impeachment hearings painted an incriminating picture of Donald Trump as a President instinctively…
Continue Reading ‘From the bottom of my heart’: Bernie Sanders bounces as health scare fades
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez capped her debut on the Iowa hustings in support of Bernie Sanders last week with a blunt call to action. “This…
Continue Reading After one day of TV hearings, the impeachment battle lines remain the same
Thirty-eight minutes into his opening statement during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, Amb. Bill Taylor, the career foreign service officer…
Continue Reading Ukraine accusations come to life in public hearings. Here’s the latest in the impeachment inquiry
Diplomat Bill Taylor on Wednesday played the role of the unimpeachable truth-telling Vietnam vet in Congress that a lot of people thought Robert…
Continue Reading Impeachment hearing testimony further connects President to Ukraine pressure
The top US diplomat in Ukraine told Congress Wednesday of a previously unknown conversation President Donald Trump had the day after his phone call…
Continue Reading Barr blames impeachment inquiry for derailing gun legislation efforts
Attorney General William Barr said Wednesday that efforts in Washington to pass gun legislation in the wake of a spate of deadly mass shootings have…
Continue Reading GOP senators take tough line with Erdogan on Syria and Russia in White House meeting
A handful of Republican senators on Wednesday warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a candid and at times tense meeting that Turkey…
Continue Reading Deval Patrick tells allies he’s running for president
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told friends and allies in phone calls on Wednesday that he has made a decision to run for president, two…
Continue Reading US Defense Department Inspector General declines to open probe into Ukraine aid delay
The US Defense Department Inspector General’s Office is declining to open an investigation into why military assistance to Ukraine was delayed…
Continue Reading AOC on impeachment hearings: Republicans must ‘decide what their role is going to be in the scope of history’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday put the onus on Republicans to take a stand following the kickoff of public hearings in the impeachment…
Continue Reading ‘Truth matters’: Prosecutors urge jury to convict Roger Stone for lying to protect Trump
Prosecutors closed their criminal trial of Republican politico Roger Stone on Wednesday by making a forceful argument that the longtime Washington…
Continue Reading Whistleblower timeline: Team Trump contacts and Ukraine
President Donald Trump’s acknowledgment that he discussed former Vice President Joe Biden in a July call with Ukraine’s president has…
Continue Reading Quick timeline of Trump-Ukraine events that led to impeachment hearings
The impeachment inquiry centers on claims that President Donald Trump used US tax dollars as bait to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…
Continue Reading Bannon testifies Trump campaign viewed Stone as access point to WikiLeaks
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in court on Friday that he and the Trump campaign viewed Roger Stone, a longtime Donald Trump…
Continue Reading Roger Stone associate denies direct contact with WikiLeaks founder during trial
Roger Stone‘s criminal trial exposed on Thursday a pile of lies in texts and emails Stone sent to or received from others — with…
Continue Reading Sign-ups slip in initial days of Obamacare open enrollment
Lower premiums and additional choices have yet to draw more people to Obamacare for 2020 as open enrollment begins. Sign-ups have slid, with only…
Continue Reading Federal judge presses Justice Department to release Mueller interview summaries in CNN lawsuit
A federal judge has prioritized the Justice Department’s public release of witness interview summaries from Robert Mueller’s special…
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