Trump says US is building a wall in Colorado — a state that doesn’t border Mexico
During a speech on American energy in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, President Donald Trump ticked through his usual issues before making an unusual remark…
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Trump’s impeachment defense has come to this
President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense has come to this. His Republican shock troops storm secure hearing rooms, he blasts Republican…
Continue Reading Fact-checking Trump’s claim that escaped ISIS prisoners were ‘largely recaptured’
President Donald Trump said in a speech Wednesday morning that the ISIS prisoners who escaped in Syria have been “largely recaptured.”…
Continue Reading Amy Klobuchar qualifies for November Democratic debate
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is the latest candidate to qualify for the next Democratic presidential debate in November after receiving 3% in a…
Continue Reading Pete Buttigieg gets aggressive as he looks to break out of the middle
Pete Buttigieg is done waiting. After rising from relative obscurity earlier this year, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor has found his campaign…
Continue Reading The man accused of running Asia’s biggest drug trafficking syndicate has been revealed. Here’s what needs to happen next
The Sam Gor syndicate and its leader, Tse Chi Lop, stand accused of running what is arguably the biggest drug-trafficking operation in Asia’s…
Continue Reading Republicans barging into secure room to stall impeachment inquiry highlights another wild day
A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Impeachment Watch newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In…
Continue Reading Republicans demand Schiff bring whistleblower to testify publicly
The top Republicans on the committees involved in the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday demanded House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff…
Continue Reading Republican lawmaker says it’s ‘beneath the office of the presidency’ for Trump to call critics ‘human scum’
A high-profile member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee chided President Donald Trump on Wednesday for calling Republicans who have refused to…
Continue Reading How two businessmen hustled to profit from access to Rudy Giuliani and the Trump administration
Long before they burst onto the national scene with their high-profile arrests at Dulles International Airport earlier this month, Soviet-born…
Continue Reading Everything you need to know about the secure room at the center of the impeachment inquiry
As the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump escalates on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are constantly looking at documents and interviewing key…
Continue Reading Ukrainian President and advisers discussed pressure from Trump weeks before taking office
Two weeks before taking office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team discussed the pressure they were already feeling from the Trump…
Continue Reading Rudy Giuliani is looking for a defense attorney, sources say
Rudy Giuliani has been approaching defense attorneys for possible representation, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The move by…
Continue Reading Trump’s lies on Syria were jaw-dropping
President Donald Trump stood in front of the microphone in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room and strafed the world with a barrage of lies and…
Continue Reading After Republicans storm hearing room, Defense official testifies in impeachment inquiry
Roughly two-dozen House Republicans on Wednesday stormed a closed-door deposition in secure House Intelligence Committee spaces to rail against the…
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El Paso City Council Rep. Claudia Ordaz-Perez announces announces run for Texas House
EL PASO, Texas – El Paso City Council District 6 Rep. Claudia Ordaz-Perez announced Wednesday she plans to run for the Texas House District 76 seat…
Continue Reading Maryland AG files lawsuit against Kushner Companies real estate company
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Kushner Companies Westminster Management LLC and 25 property owners…
Continue Reading Trump tests out impeachment response strategies as allies look for unified defense
There are talking points. There are private lawyers huddling in the West Wing. There is not, the White House insists, a war room. A month into the…
Continue Reading Republicans’ circus strategy on impeachment
On Wednesday on Capitol Hill, this happened: “Roughly two-dozen House Republicans on Wednesday stormed a closed-door deposition in secure House…
Continue Reading House passes bill aimed at fighting foreign influence in American elections
House Democrats on Wednesday night approved a sweeping election security bill, known as the SHIELD Act, in an effort to combat foreign influence in…
Continue Reading US close to implementing asylum agreement with Guatemala
The Trump administration is close to implementing an asylum agreement with Guatemala that would limit who’s eligible for asylum in the United…
Continue Reading Republicans focus on Democrats — not Trump — in impeachment inquiry
A day after Bill Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine, undermined President Donald Trump’s defenses with his testimony in the House…
Continue Reading ‘No quid pro quo’: How Trump wants to sidetrack impeachment
President Donald Trump has hijacked the impeachment debate with the phrase “no quid pro quo.” He defended his actions using the slogan…
Continue Reading Federal judge: ‘If we want to stop mass shootings, we should stop punishing police officers’
One of President Donald Trump’s appointees to the federal bench issued a controversial opinion this week with a startling opening line that…
Continue Reading Mark Zuckerberg tells Congress anti-trust ‘didn’t come up’ during ‘private’ Trump meeting
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reluctantly offered Congress a few details about his September meeting with President Donald Trump, telling lawmakers on…
Continue Reading Expect Trump to fight as if his life depends on it
Faced with the possibility of impeachment, President Donald Trump has declared Congress’s inquiry to be a political “lynching” and…
Continue Reading Bipartisan bill aims to reverse change in how some children of military and federal employees overseas become citizens
The top members of the House Judiciary Committee leadership introduced bipartisan legislation Wednesday that would reverse a policy by the Trump…
Continue Reading Trump announces he’s lifting Turkey sanctions as his Syria envoy says Turkish-backed forces committed war crimes
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he was lifting all sanctions on Turkey after it agreed to halt its attack on America’s former…
Continue Reading Texas House speaker won’t seek reelection in wake of scandal
The Republican speaker of the Texas House of Representatives announced Tuesday that he will not be seeking reelection in 2020 amid a scandal…
Continue Reading Giuliani associates Fruman and Parnas plead not guilty to campaign finance charges
Two men who have served as Rudy Giuliani’s conduit to Ukraine pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court Wednesday to charges that they…
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