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Defying party, Gabbard votes ‘present’ on Trump impeachment
Already comfortable as an outlier in her party, Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard did not support the impeachment of President Donald Trump, voting “present” Wednesday on two articles that cleared the House. In a lengthy statement released after the House charged the president with abuse of power and obstructing Congress,...
Defiant Trump rallies supporters in Michigan as House impeaches himVideo
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Defiant in the face of a historic rebuke, President Donald Trump labeled his impeachment by the House of Representatives on Wednesday “a suicide march” for the Democratic Party. “Crazy Nancy Pelosi’s House Democrats have branded themselves with an eternal mark of shame,” Trump told the crowd...
Majority in House votes to impeach President Trump on 2 chargesVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution’s ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors. The historic vote split along party lines, much the way it has divided the...
Appeals court: Part of ‘Obamacare’ invalid, more review neededVideo
NEW ORLEANS — The “individual mandate” of former President Barack Obama’s health care law is invalid, but other parts of the law need further review, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 2-1 ruling handed down by a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans...
What to watch as Trump impeachment moves to House floor
WASHINGTON — American history is happening in the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats are driving President Donald Trump to the brink of impeachment Wednesday as the House takes up charges Trump abused his power and obstructed Congress in pressuring Ukraine to investigate political rivals and refusing to cooperate with the...
Federal lawsuit seeks to stop Wisconsin voter purge
MADISON, Wis. — The fight over purging more than 200,000 voters registered in Wisconsin moved to federal court on Tuesday, with a new attempt to block the move in the narrowly divided swing state that’s key to President Donald Trump’s re-election efforts. The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin filed...
Rudy Giuliani brags about forcing out Trump’s Ukraine ambassador, Marie YovanovitchVideo
WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, is now openly admitting that he pushed President Donald Trump to dismiss the former ambassador to Ukraine — a key factor in the Democrats’ impeachment case against his boss. In a series of interviews ahead of the historic impeachment vote on Wednesday...
Trump angrily objects to impeachment, calls it ‘perversion’ and invokes ‘Salem Witch Trials’Video
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is angrily objecting to the House of Representatives’ articles of impeachment, accusing Democrats of “perversion of justice and abuse of power” in their effort to remove him from office. In a fiery letter Tuesday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the eve of his expected...
Trump conservative critics launch PAC to fight reelection
NEW YORK — A small group of President Donald Trump’s fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president’s own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump’s reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.” The new organization, known as the Lincoln Project, represents a formal...
Spending deal would end two-decade freeze on gun research
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan deal on a government spending bill would for the first time in two decades provide money for federal research on gun safety. A law adopted in the 1990’s has effectively blocked such research and prohibits federal agencies from engaging in advocacy on gun-related issues. The spending...
‘Obamacare’ sign-up deadline is extended following glitches
WASHINGTON — People will get more time to sign up for “Obamacare” health insurance, the Trump administration announced Monday, following a spate of computer glitches over the weekend. The new HealthCare.gov deadline is 3 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a statement....
Mitch McConnell-backed bill to bolster coal miners’ pensions poised to become law
WASHINGTON — Congress is on track to pass legislation this year that will stabilize the pensions and health benefits of retired coal miners and their widows. It’s a huge win for longtime advocates of the cause, on and off Capitol Hill, who have spent years fighting for a legislative response...
Activists across Western Pa. to rally for Trump’s ouster on eve of House impeachment vote
Local police say they are confident they are prepared for impeachment rallies planned across the region Tuesday evening. Activists calling for the impeachment and removal of President Trump have scheduled five rallies at locations across the region at 5:30 p.m. on the eve of the U.S. House of Representatives’ historic...
Trump takes dig at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in ‘teeth’ tweetVideo
President Donald Trump took a swipe at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday with a tweet that claimed Pelosi’s “teeth were falling out of her mouth.” The comment was made as part of a retweet from Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., who showed a clip of Pelosi explaining why she decided...
Democrats seek John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney for impeachment trialVideo
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are proposing a weekslong Senate impeachment trial seeking testimony from four new witnesses including John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney over President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine, according to a detailed outlined released Sunday. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York proposed the structure for a “fair...
Jim Comey: ‘Real sloppiness’ in Russia probe but no misconductVideo
WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director James Comey acknowledged Sunday that a Justice Department inspector general report identified “real sloppiness” in the surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide and said he was wrong to have been “overconfident” about how the Russia investigation was handled. But Comey also insisted he was...
Bernie Sanders makes pitch for minor leagues
BURLINGTON, Iowa — Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate, is aggressively opposing a Major League Baseball plan to cut 42 minor league teams across the country after 2020. Among the targeted are the Vermont Lake Monsters, the Single-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics in his hometown, Burlington....
Public school funding a hot topic for Democratic candidates at Pittsburgh forum
Pittsburgh served as the backdrop Saturday as seven Democratic presidential candidates met at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center to discuss their education policy platforms. Front-runners Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren were joined by Sen. Michael Bennet, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and...
Governor on refugees: ‘The inn is not full in Minnesota’
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota state government will continue to consent to refugee resettlement, Gov. Tim Walz said Friday, in response to a recent presidential executive order that requires consent from states and counties. “The inn is not full in Minnesota,” the Democratic governor said in a letter to Secretary of State...
Sen. Mitch McConnell files for seventh term in Kentucky
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Touting his leadership role as an asset for Middle America, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell filed for reelection Friday as the Kentucky Republican seeks a seventh term next year. McConnell, the longest-serving U.S. senator in Kentucky history, has tied himself closely to President Donald Trump as he...
Blackwater founder Prince visited Venezuela’s sanctioned VP
MIAMI — Erik Prince, a major Trump donor and the founder of controversial security firm formerly known as Blackwater, traveled to Caracas last month for a secret meeting with Venezuela’s vice president, according to several people familiar with the visit. It’s not clear whether Prince, who has been accused of...
Twitter brings back election labels for 2020 US candidates
Twitter is bringing back special labels to help users identify accounts and tweets from U.S. political candidates. The company, which first used such labels for the midterm elections last year, said it is trying to provide users with original sources of information and prevent spoofed and fake accounts from fooling...
House gets 2 Trump impeachment charges after Judiciary voteVideo
WASHINGTON — Impeachment charges against President Donald Trump went to the full House on Friday, following approval by the House Judiciary Committee. The House is expected to take up the two articles of impeachment next week. The abuse of power charge stems from Trump’s July phone call with the Ukraine...
Russia probe report spurs calls for FBI surveillance changes
WASHINGTON — Revelations that the FBI committed serious errors in wiretapping a former Trump campaign aide have spurred bipartisan calls for change to the government’s surveillance powers, including from some Republicans who in the past have voted to renew or expand those authorities. Anger over the errors cited in this...
Conor Lamb supports impeachment: ‘What the president did was wrong’
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb said Thursday he plans to vote in favor of both impeachment articles Democrats plan to lodge against President Donald Trump. The Mt. Lebanon Democrat — a rising-star politician serving his first full year in Congress — said the last few weeks of evidence and testimony in...
