Trump Demands Impeachment Trial
President Donald Trump stated that he wanted an impeachment trial in the Senate in case the House votes to impeach him. “I want a trial,” Trump said during an interview on “Fox & Friends” Friday […]
President Donald Trump stated that he wanted an impeachment trial in the Senate in case the House votes to impeach him. “I want a trial,” Trump said during an interview on “Fox & Friends” Friday […]
President Donald Trump on Friday went after former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, saying that people were going easy on her because she’s a woman and asserting that she “was not an angel”. “I […]
President Trump said in an interview on Friday that he prevented the Chinese government from crushing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong by saying that it would complicate a US-China trade deal. According to Reuters, Trump […]
Following her performance in the fifth Democratic debate, Kamala Harris won her new endorsements from local Iowa as well as state officials. “NEW @KamalaHarris IOWA ENDORSEMENTS after last night’s standout debate performance!” Miryam Lipper, Harris’s […]
China wants to work out an initial trade pact with the United States and has been trying to avoid a trade war, President Xi Jinping said on Friday, but is not afraid to retaliate when […]
President Donald Trump’s former Russia adviser urged lawmakers in the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry on Thursday not to promote “politically driven falsehoods” that cast doubt on Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election, Reuters […]
A Chinese national who worked for Monsanto before it was purchased by Bayer AG was charged in St. Louis, Missouri, on Thursday with stealing trade secrets for China, the U.S. Justice Department said, Reuters reported. […]
As Democrats work to protect the whistleblower, whose lawyer says he receives regular threats due to the complaint that touched off the current impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, another major figure in this week’s […]
Russia wants to establish a new military base in a part of Syria perilously close to an area that American troops have been charged with defending, heightening the risk of a confrontation from either an unintentional […]
NASA shared a video of an astronaut throwing debris into space on its Instagram page today and channeled the motto of Netflix cleaning sensation Marie Kondo. Luca Parmitano threw a debris shield into space after […]
Presidential hopefuls Pete Buttigieg and Tulsi Gabbard scuffled over previous experience and judgment, following Gabbard’s comments that Buttigieg allegedly suggested that he would use the U.S. military to battle Mexican drug cartels. The South Bend […]
Elizabeth Warren avoided saying if there will be any room within the Democratic Party for those who are opposing abortion rights. “I’m not here to drive anyone out of this party, I’m not here to […]
GOP senators will need more time before they abandon President Donald Trump and vote to back his impeachment, says a Watergate-era House judiciary committee congresswoman. Elizabeth Holtzman represented New York in the House for four consecutive […]
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday said some 30 million barrels of oil sitting in storage tanks would serve as backing for the OPEC nation’s state-run cryptocurrency, the petro, which has been sanctioned by the […]
Iranian authorities used arrests, deadly force, and a prolonged internet blackout to contain nationwide protests that pose the most serious test in years for Iran’s leaders, The Wall Street Journal reported. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on […]
At least 16 civilians were killed when rockets struck an internally displaced persons camp, in the village of Qah in Syria’s Idlib province on Wednesday, according to the volunteer rescue group known as the White […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected the chance of GOP senators to vote to impeach President Donald Trump. “It’s inconceivable to me there would be 67 votes to remove the President from office,” McConnell told […]
Andrew Yang on Wednesday during the Democratic debate joked that if he’s elected president in 2020, his first words to Russian President Vladimir Putin would offer condolences for winning over Trump. “Sorry I beat your […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden during the fifth Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday said that his candidacy is endorsed by the only black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate. However, Senator Kamala Harris, another […]
A Democratic state senator in Pennsylvania who represents a district that flipped to President Donald Trump in 2016 said that he is considering becoming an Independent and caucus with the state’s Republicans because he is […]
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Monday made accusations against Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., of lacking “basic manners” due to a letter addressed to President Donald Trump from last month where she states […]
Perhaps no issue has divided the field of Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls more than the debate over “Medicare for All”, Reuters reports. Progressive candidates favor the sweeping proposal, which would replace private health insurance with […]
Israel said its aircraft struck dozens of Iranian and Syrian military targets in Syria on Wednesday in retaliation for rockets fired towards Israel a day earlier, Reuters informs. Syrian state media reported two civilians were […]
Senior U.S. officials told impeachment investigators in Congress on Tuesday they were concerned by President Donald Trump’s effort to get Ukraine to investigate a political rival, with one White House official calling it a “shock”. […]
Hong Kong schools reopened Wednesday after a six-day shutdown but students and commuters faced transit disruptions as the last protesters remained holed up on a university campus, The Associated Press writes. City officials tried to […]
At least 106 protestors have been killed in 21 cities in Iran during unrest that broke out over fuel prices rises last week, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, Reuters reported. “The organization believes that the […]
Ambassador Gordon Sondland is likely to be unpredictable when he faces questions about his evolving accounts of the Trump administration’s dealings with Ukraine and a newly revealed summertime phone call with President Donald Trump, The […]
The White House is planning to spend most of the would-be migrants to another Central American nation to seek refuge there. According to Reuters, regulations proposed by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security would […]
Swedish deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, announced the decision to drop the investigation again at a press conference in Stockholm on Tuesday afternoon. The investigation was launched after a Swedish woman who met […]
A man from New York pleaded guilty after he was charged for making threats to kill Ilhan Omar, The Hill reported, citing a statement of the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of New […]
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