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Trump defense narrative unfolds as conservative supporters gird for impeachment
President Trump’s supporters in Western Pennsylvania seeking solace from the unfolding impeachment inquiry got a harsh dose of reality and strategy from political commentator Dinesh D’Souza. While Senate Republicans condemned the process and a group of House Republicans stormed a hearing room where impeachment witnesses were testifying, D’Souza joined a...
Scandal brings election risk for rising Democratic star
AGUA DULCE, Calif. — California U.S. Rep. Katie Hill has apologized to friends and supporters for engaging in an affair with a campaign staffer, but Susan Slates still feels let down by the 32-year-old Democrat who arrived in Congress just this year. Slates is a beauty salon owner in Hill’s...
Trump intends to uphold tradition of presidents and baseball
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s plan to attend Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday will continue a rich tradition of intertwining the American presidency with America’s pastime. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s limousine drove onto to the field ahead of the 1933 World Series, the last time the nation’s...
Russian woman who infiltrated US politics out of prison
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A tantalizing chapter in Russia’s efforts to collect intelligence on American politics came to a close on Friday as a woman who worked as a covert agent was released from prison to be returned to her home country. Maria Butina, a gun rights activist who sought to...
President Trump takes victory lap on criminal justice reform
COLUMBIA, S.C. — When President Donald Trump talks about how his policies are helping African Americans, he almost always mentions a new law that has allowed thousands of non-violent offenders to gain early release from federal prison. He made the pitch again Friday at a criminal justice conference in South...
Judge: Justice Department must give House grand jury evidence from Mueller probe
WASHINGTON — A judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to give the House secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, handing a victory to Democrats who want it for the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump. The ruling from Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell...
RNC says it ‘wholeheartedly’ backs Trump in impeachment
WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee moved Friday in an extraordinary vote to express that it “now more than ever wholeheartedly supports” President Donald Trump as he confronts House Democrats’ impeachment probe. The national party’s governing body expressed solidarity with Trump in condemning what it calls a “nakedly partisan impeachment...
Speculation on Dick’s CEO’s presidential aspirations stirs political waters
Twitter is afire with reports that Ed Stack, billionaire CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, might run for U.S. president through a third-party bid. Stack, who has homes in Sewickley and North Palm Beach, Fla., made national headlines when he halted the sale of semi-automatic weapons and destroyed a cache worth...
Elijah Cummings remembered as ‘fierce champion’ at funeral
BALTIMORE — Congressman and civil rights leader Elijah Cummings was remembered Friday as a “fierce champion of truth, justice and kindness” at a funeral that brought Washington politicians and ordinary people alike to the Baltimore church where he worshipped for nearly four decades. “It is no coincidence — is it?...
Education Secretary Besty DeVos held in contempt because of student loan case
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was held in contempt of court and fined $100,000 by a federal judge on Thursday for violating an order to stop collecting loan payments from now-defunct Corinthian College, according to multiple reports. The Department of Education had been ordered to stop collecting on the federal loans...
AP source: Department of Justice review of Russia probe now a criminal inquiry
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has shifted its review of the Russia probe to a criminal investigation, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday, a move that is likely to raise concerns that President Donald Trump and his allies may be using the powers of the government to go...
Lindsey Graham’s resolution condemns ‘closed’ House impeachment probeVideo
WASHINGTON — A leading Senate ally of President Donald Trump introduced a resolution Thursday condemning the Democratic-run House for pursuing an “illegitimate impeachment inquiry” and demanding that Republicans be given more chances to question witnesses. The nonbinding resolution announced by GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina gives Senate Republicans...
Trump includes Colorado in states getting border wallVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s boast of building part of the border wall in Colorado is garnering attention in the state, including from the state’s governor, Democrat Jared Polis. Trump was speaking Wednesday to an audience in Pittsburgh when he included Colorado in a list of states where the border...
House Ethics opens investigation into Rep. Katie Hill over alleged staffer relationship
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into Rep. Katie Hill regarding allegations that she may have had a sexual relationship with a member of her staff. The committee will gather additional information regarding the allegations, the committee said in a statement. Hill denied allegations Tuesday she...
Chaotic scene as House Republicans disrupt impeachment depositionVideo
WASHINGTON — Republicans brought House Democrats’ impeachment investigation to a halt on Wednesday as around two dozen GOP House members stormed into a closed-door deposition with a Defense Department official. Democrats said the move compromised national security as some of them brought electronic devices into a secure room. The GOP...
Elijah Cummings lying in repose at historically black college
BALTIMORE — Mourners, constituents and other well-wishers paid respects to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings on Wednesday as his body lay in repose at a historically black college in Baltimore ahead of the first in a series of services. A tan hearse with a U.S. House of Representatives seal carrying Cummings’...
Toomey praises Trump for shale gas exploration policies in Pennsylvania, U.S.
Pennsylvania’s junior U.S. senator praised Donald Trump’s policies on shale gas exploration on the cusp of the president’s visit Wednesday to the Shale Insight 2019 conference in Downtown Pittsburgh. U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, said the administration’s market-based approach has allowed natural gas production in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale to...
Anonymous Trump official writing ‘unprecedented’ inside takeVideo
NEW YORK — The Trump administration official who wrote an anonymous essay about resistance from the inside has a book deal. The book, titled “A Warning”, will come out Nov. 19, The Hachette Book Group imprint Twelve announced Tuesday. It will likely set off the biggest Washington guessing game since...
Trump floats Mulvaney replacements including Steve Mnuchin and Kellyanne ConwayVideo
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has for weeks been privately testing the idea of replacing his chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, who’s swiftly fallen out of favor with some of the president’s allies as a result of high-profile stumbles handling the House impeachment inquiry. About a month ago, Trump said to...
Democrats in impeachment inquiry ‘astonished’ by latest testimony of key U.S. diplomat William TaylorVideo
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine provided House investigators Tuesday with what some lawmakers described as the most detailed and shocking account they’ve yet heard regarding President Donald Trump’s attempt to pressure Ukraine to help investigate his political enemies, according to Democrats who left the secured hearing room....
Mitch McConnell resolution prods Trump to keep troops in Syria
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced legislation Tuesday denouncing Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria and gently prodding President Donald Trump to halt his withdrawal of U.S. troops from the embattled country. But McConnell, R-Ky., said lawmakers should refrain from imposing sanctions on Turkey for now, saying, “We don’t...
Trump likens House impeachment inquiry to ‘a lynching’Video
WASHINGTON — Stirring up painful memories of America’s racist past, President Donald Trump on Tuesday compared the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry to a lynching, a practice once widespread across the South in which angry mobs killed thousands of black people. The use of such inflammatory imagery to lash out at the...
Democrats seek insider trading probe as a result of ‘Trump Chaos’ article
WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers are increasingly demanding that U.S. authorities investigate allegations raised in a recent magazine article that traders might be using nonpublic government information to reap huge illegal profits, even as the exchange where the transactions purportedly took place called the story “patently false.” In a letter on...
Mike Pence spars with Joe Biden over administration’s trade record
DURYEA — Vice President Mike Pence headed to the presidential battleground of Pennsylvania on Monday to tout a pending trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, and in the process sparred with Joe Biden over the Trump administration’s record on trade. Pence visited a high-tech glass maker near Scranton, where the...
Facebook ramps up election security efforts ahead of 2020
With just over a year left until the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Facebook is stepping up its efforts to ensure it is not used as a tool to interfere in politics and democracies around the world. The efforts outlined Monday include a special security tool for elected officials and candidates...
