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11/14/2019 Washington Post Politics
The two-term governor entered the race less than three months before the first votes are taken in Iowa, and faces a challenge in raising the money and voter support to propel his campaign.
11/14/2019 Washington Post Politics
The president’s assessment came a day after a historic open hearing in which two career diplomats expressed concerns about the Trump’s actions regarding Ukraine.
11/14/2019 Washington Post Politics
A member of the no fossil-fuels group called his candidacy ‘laughable.’
11/14/2019 Reuters Politics
The Democratic-led impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump moves ahead on Thursday after an opening day of public testimony that linked Trump to a pressure campaign to force Ukraine to conduct investigations that would benefit him politically.
11/14/2019 Reuters Politics
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Thursday that U.S. ambassador Gordon Sondland did not explicitly link military aid to Kiev with opening an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Interfax Ukraine reported.
11/14/2019 Reuters Politics
John Dean entered the witness protection program. Valerie Plame feared for her children.
11/14/2019 Washington Post Politics
The campaign is selling mugs to collect “billionaire tears.”
11/14/2019 Reuters Politics
Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will seek the Democratic nomination for president, entering a crowded field of candidates vying to run against Republican Donald Trump in 2020, he said in a video released on Thursday.
11/14/2019 Washington Post Politics
The GOP didn’t name check the firm, for once.
11/14/2019 Washington Post Politics
A top health official won’t even commit to basic flavor restrictions the president promised.
11/14/2019 Reuters Politics
President Donald Trump's pick to run the Energy Department, Dan Brouillette, will face questions at his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday on issues including the future of coal and nuclear power.
11/14/2019 Washington Post Politics
Rep. Paul Gosar's tweets during Wednesday's impeachment hearings peddled an alternative explanation for the death of multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
11/14/2019 Washington Post Politics
The president's Sixth Amendment right to face his accuser applies only to criminal, not impeachment proceedings.
11/14/2019 Washington Post Politics
The president's Sixth Amendment right to face his accuser applies only to criminal, not impeachment proceedings.
11/14/2019 Reuters Politics
The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testifying on Wednesday in the first televised hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, linked him more directly to a pressure campaign on Ukraine to conduct investigations that would benefit him politically.
11/14/2019 Reuters Politics
As the first televised hearing of the impeachment probe unfolded on Wednesday on the screen in his home in Flint, Michigan, Quincy Murphy said there was no chance the proceedings would alter his view that President Donald Trump is unfit to hold the office.
11/14/2019 Washington Post Politics
A previously unknown conversation with Trump could be a linchpin in the inquiry.
11/14/2019 Reuters Politics
Democrat Joe Biden would invest $1.3 trillion over a decade on electric car charging stations, high-speed railroads, clean-energy research and other public infrastructure if he is elected U.S. president next year, his campaign said on Thursday.
11/14/2019 Washington Post Politics
Here’s a roundup of some of the key misleading claims made at the first day of public hearings.
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren questioned Goldman Sachs's response to allegations of bias in how the bank evaluates applicants for Apple Inc's credit card, suggesting it should pull down the algorithm if it cannot be explained, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
11/13/2019 Washington Post Politics
Democrats have called two diplomats whose testimony they see as key to making the case that the president improperly pressed Ukraine for investigations that could benefit him politically.
11/13/2019 Washington Post Politics
A witness was left momentary speechless when pressed on conspiracy theories apparently driving the president’s actions.
11/13/2019 Washington Post Politics
By sundown, more than three dozen tweets and retweets decrying the day’s events were posted on the Twitter feed of a president who said he had not “watched a minute.”
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testifying in the first televised hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, linked the president on Wednesday more directly to a pressure campaign on Ukraine for investigations of Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden and his son that would benefit him politically.
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
Democratic lawmakers tried their hand at reality television with mixed results on Wednesday as they presented arguments to the American public for the impeachment of a former star of the genre, Donald Trump.
11/13/2019 Washington Post Politics
The testimony about the phone call was one of the few new revelations during the five-hour opening impeachment hearing.
11/13/2019 Washington Post Politics
The testimony about the phone call was one of the few new revelations during the five-hour opening impeachment hearing.
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
U.S. President Donald Trump said that on Thursday he would deliver on his promise to release the transcript of an April call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
11/13/2019 Washington Post Politics
The clash of values was on vivid display Wednesday as woolly diplomats earnestly defended the old ways while Trump’s defenders spoke darkly of ‘deep state’ subversion.
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has told supporters he will join the Democratic race and run for president, media outlets including the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
11/13/2019 Washington Post Politics
U.S. envoy to Ukraine appeared unflappable as he laid out concerns over demands for political investigations.
11/13/2019 Washington Post Politics
The conversations remain fluid, but they could pose a serious challenge to the half-dozen Democratic senators running for president if a trial stretches into February.
11/13/2019 Washington Post Politics
Black entertainer Byron Allen is suing Comcast over its refusal to carry his network.
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
Prosecutors delivered closing arguments in the trial of U.S. President Donald Trump's adviser Roger Stone on Wednesday, saying the Republican operative lied to Congress about his efforts to keep abreast of when WikiLeaks might dump damaging emails on Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election campaign because he knew it would make Trump look bad.
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
The whistleblower who prompted an impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump never met or spoke with congressman Adam Schiff, the Democrat leading impeachment hearings in Congress, a source familiar with the whistleblower's contacts said.
11/13/2019 Washington Examiner Politics
Republican Rep. Paul Gosar spelled out the phrase “Epstein didn’t kill himself” using the first letter of each tweet in a string of 23 tweets.
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
A witness testified at Wednesday's first public impeachment hearing that President Donald Trump seemed to care more about his own political interests than about Ukraine's welfare as the U.S. leader assessed ties with that country.
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
A top Senate Republican, John Cornyn, said on Wednesday that should the U.S. House of Representatives vote to impeach President Donald Trump, he doubts a motion in the Senate to immediately dismiss the charges would succeed.
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
A U.S. diplomat testifying in a congressional impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump rejected Republicans' efforts to label him a "star witness" for Democrats, adding that he was not pushing for a particular outcome.
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
Below are reactions to the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee impeachment hearing on Wednesday into allegations about President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
11/13/2019 Reuters Politics
U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence committee Democrats defeated a Republican bid on Wednesday to issue a subpoena to compel testimony in the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump from the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the probe.
11/13/2019 Washington Examiner Politics
The first two people called to testify as part of public impeachment hearings rebuffed suggestions from President Trump that they are “Never Trumpers.”
11/13/2019 Washington Examiner Politics
For years, President Trump has pushed a conspiracy theory about CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that determined the Democratic National Committee had been hacked by Russia in 2016, claiming it is owned by a Ukrainian and hid a DNC server in Ukraine.
11/13/2019 Washington Examiner Politics
The first two people to testify publicly in the impeachment hearings against President Trump gave lengthy opening statements.
11/13/2019 Washington Examiner Politics
Bars and restaurants across Washington, D.C., are cashing in on the impeachment hearings against President Trump, opening both their establishments and their bottles.
11/12/2019 Washington Examiner Politics
Hillary Clinton ripped into Margaret Thatcher when asked why the British prime minister failed to make the cut in her book of Gutsy Women.
11/12/2019 Washington Examiner Politics
Emphasizing his “America First” foreign policy, President Trump said he is willing to meet with any foreign leader if it helps the country.
11/12/2019 Washington Examiner Politics
Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates testified Tuesday that President Trump's associate Roger Stone repeatedly told the campaign and, in one case, likely Trump directly, about anticipated information from WikiLeaks.
11/12/2019 Washington Examiner Politics
Roger Stone, the flamboyant “dirty trickster” and Republican operative, will not take the stand to defend himself against the Justice Department's allegations he made false statements and obstructed justice concerning his interactions with WikiLeaks.
11/12/2019 Washington Examiner Politics
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer has been eliminated from Dancing with the Stars and shared his "mixed" reaction to getting cut.