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Lawmakers Hone Their Messaging On Impeachment
Democratic Congressman Tom Malinowski had planned to spend the October recess traveling around his majority-Republican New Jersey district talking about the federal legislative issues that affect his constituents. But on Sept. 24, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, all that changed. Instead of just touting his recent votes,…
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Democrats Intensify Call for Details of Trump Whistleblower Complaint—And Impeachment
(WASHINGTON) — Congressional Democrats on Monday pressed their demands for full disclosure of a whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump and intensified their calls for impeachment. Trump insisted anew he did nothing wrong in a conversation with Ukraine’s leader that is at the center of the complaint. Republicans remained largely silent amid reports that the…
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How Long Could the Trump Impeachment Process Last? Use Our Interactive Timeline to Find Out
In the one week since Speaker Nancy Pelosi consecrated the long-running impeachment groundswell in the House, Donald Trump’s presidency until now has felt like a political adaptation of “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone.” The 12-minute Motown opus, rearranged for The Temptations from the original in 1972, has one of the longest intros in pop music…
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Joe Biden, Once Cautious About Calling for President Trump’s Impeachment, Now Openly Supports It
Using his most forceful language to date, former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday for the first time backed the impeachment of President Donald Trump. It was a sharp change for Biden, who just last week argued that it was up to Congress to figure out how to deal with allegations that Trump had asked…
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Donald Trump ‘suggested shooting migrants in the legs’
Image copyright AFP US President Donald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs to slow them down, according to a new book.The book, by two New York Times journalists, says Mr Trump suggested extreme methods of deterring migrants from crossing the southern border.They included building an electrified, spiked border wall and a snake or alligator-infested…
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US Republicans seek sanctions on Turkey over Syria
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Turkey’s move into northern Syria has sparked outrage in the US Republicans in the US House of Representatives have announced plans to introduce a sanctions bill against Turkey for its offensive in Syria.Congresswoman Liz Cheney said Turkey must face “serious consequences for mercilessly attacking our Kurdish allies” in the…
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Kurt Volker: First witness testifies in Trump impeachment probe
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWhat we know about Biden-Ukraine corruption claimsUS President Donald Trump, already facing an impeachment inquiry after urging Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden, has now urged China to do likewise.He said both China and Ukraine should look into Mr Biden, a Democratic presidential frontrunner, and…
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A U.S. Athlete’s Gay Pride Shoe Is Causing a Flap in Qatar
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — American heptathlete Erica Bougard says she wasn’t trying to make an international political statement against Qatar’s anti-LGBTQ policies. She was just wearing her favorite high jump shoes. She has worn the shoes, with a rainbow flap across one foot to symbolize gay pride, all season. She didn’t consider how that would…
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Hydraulic Issue Leads Southwest Airlines to Evacuate Plane in Chicago
(CHICAGO) — Southwest Airlines has evacuated a flight over a hydraulic issue that cropped up after landing at Chicago’s Midway International Airport. Southwest tells reporters that the Monday flight from Austin, Texas, had an issue with a redundant system that powers the main landing gear. Online flight records say the flight arrived about 35 minutes…
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Amnesty International Says Hong Kong Police Using ‘Reckless and Indiscriminate Tactics’
Amnesty International on Friday accused Hong Kong police of employing “reckless and indiscriminate tactics” against protesters in what amounts to an alarming pattern of abuse, and called for an independent investigation. In a new report, Amnesty documented a series of arbitrary arrests and retaliatory violence against pro-democracy protesters held in custody, some of which, it…
