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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that the United States should “calm down” referring to the limited trade deal that the two nations achieved. “We are willing to resolve the contradictions and differences […]

Kentucky Gives Voting Rights to Some 140,000 Former Felons

Kentucky’s newly elected Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, signed an executive order on Thursday restoring the vote and the right to hold public office to more than 140,000 residents who have completed sentences for nonviolent felonies, […]

Senior Congress Negotiators, White House Set Potential Deal on Fiscal 2020 Funding

Senior negotiators in the U.S. Congress on Thursday reached a tentative deal with the White House on a series of bills to fund federal agencies through September 30, 2020, which would avert partial government shutdowns next […]

House Committee Delays Impeachment Vote to Friday

Democrats delayed an impeachment vote by a U.S. House Committee just before midnight, incensing Republicans and setting up a Friday showdown over President Donald Trump’s future, Reuters reports. The committee had been expected to approve […]

Republicans Enraged over Impeachment Hearing Pause

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler interrupted the Committee’s debate on the impeachment articles prior to the last votes, which are to take place on Friday morning, prompting howls of protest from Republicans […]

December 12, 2019 Focus Washington

Pence’s Office Refuses to Declassify Call with Zelensky

Mike Pence’s counsel declined to share further information on the vice president’s call with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, a letter obtained by The Hill showed. Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee urged Pence last […]

December 12, 2019 Focus Washington

Lawmakers Begin Debating Impeachment Articles against Trump

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives moved closer on Wednesday to impeaching President Donald Trump as a key House committee began debating formal articles of impeachment that are expected to be brought to the […]

U.S.-China Trade Deal Expected Before December 15

The U.S. and China will probably announce some form of trade deal ahead of Sunday — when additional tariffs on Chinese goods are due to kick in — and that’s going to boost financial markets, analysts say […]

Trump Supporters Frustrated with House Dems Impeachment Articles

Trump supporters at the President’s rally in Hershey claimed they were frustrated with House Democrats after officials revealed impeachment articles against Trump that day, The Hill reported. In a segment, NBC News released on Tuesday night, reporter Monica […]

Taliban Breach Walls at Bagram Airfield Days After Peace Talks Restart

Several Taliban militants breached the walls of Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, following a targeted attack which the Pentagon said was a suicide bomb, Newsweek has learned. The attack comes as talks resumed this weekend between the […]

Buttigieg Says Layoffs in Health Insurance Company Are Not His Fault

Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg argued that his consultation and talks with a health insurance company had nothing to do with the layoffs in the company after he left. “I doubt it,” Buttigieg said in an […]

Democrats’ Impeachment Articles Claim Trump ‘Betrayed’ U.S.

House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, declaring he “betrayed the nation” with his actions toward Ukraine as they pushed toward historic proceedings that are certain to help define […]

Federal Judge Blocks $3.6bn Transfer to Mexican Border Wall

A federal judge on Tuesday issued a permanent injunction barring President Donald Trump’s attempt to transfer $3.6 billion in military construction funds to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, Reuters reports. Judge David Briones, […]

House Dems, White House Announce New North American Trade Deal

House Democrats and the White House announced a deal on a modified North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a major Capitol Hill win Tuesday on the same day that impeachment charges were announced […]

Ex-FBI Head Demands Apology from Trump

Ex-FBI General counsel said that President Donald Trump owes him as well as others at the FBI an apology, following a watchdog report by the Justice Department which is disproving Trump’s blast that his campaign was […]

Evidence of Trump Impeachment Presented at Judiciary Committee Hearing

The House Judiciary Committee on Monday was the scene of bitter partisan sparring, as lawmakers questioned staff attorneys who presented the evidence so far gathered in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, CNBC […]

Trump Snubs FBI Chief over Inspector General’s Russia Inquiry

President Donald Trump slammed FBI Director Christopher Wray in a tweet he published on Tuesday morning, in which he disagreed with his characterization of a newly released Justice Department inspector general report, The Hill reported. […]

University of Arizona to Work on NASA’s Asteroid Planetary Defense Space Telescope

Professor Amy Mainzer of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona will provide technical leadership for the projected mission, to be in partnership with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Near-Earth Object Surveillance […]

SpaceX Vows to Fix Starlink Satellites Interfering with Ruining Astronomer’s Watch of Night Sky

SpaceX has announced that the company is going to test a new Starlink satellite with a specialized anti-reflective coating that won’t interfere with the night sky. This revised spacecraft will be one out of a batch of 60 […]

NASA Finally Completes SLS, Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built

NASA has completed the giant rocket that will take US astronauts back to the Moon, the space agency’s head announced Monday, pledging the mission would take place in 2024 despite being beset by delays. Towering […]

Watchdog Report Says FBI’s Russia Probe Justified

The FBI was justified in opening its investigation into ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia and did not act with political bias, despite “serious performance failures” up the bureau’s chain of command, the […]

Democrats Look to Bolster Impeachment Case as Republicans Defend Trump

Democrats on Monday sought to bolster the case for impeaching President Donald Trump, describing his pressuring of Ukraine to investigate a political rival as a “clear and present danger” to free and fair elections and […]

North Dakota County May Become U.S.’s First to Bar New Refugees

Reuben Panchol was forced to leave war-torn Sudan decades ago as a child, embarking on an odyssey that eventually brought him to the American Midwest and left him eternally grateful to the country that took […]

Hong Kong Sees Biggest Protests Since Democrats’ Election Boost

Vast crowds of black-clad demonstrators thronged Hong Kong on Sunday in the largest anti-government protests since local elections last month that boosted the pro-democracy movement seeking to curb controls by China, Reuters informed. It was […]

Trump Says Kim Jong-un Risks Losing ‘Everything’

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un risks losing “everything” if he resumes hostility and his country must denuclearize, after the North said it had carried out a “successful test […]

U.S., Iran Swap Prisoners in Rare Act of Cooperation

The United States and Iran each freed a prisoner on Saturday in a rare act of cooperation between two longtime foes whose ties have worsened since President Donald Trump took office, Reuters informs. Iran released […]

Sudan Claims it Has Reduced Troops in Yemen to 5,000

Sudan’s prime minister said on Sunday Khartoum had reduced the number of troops it has in Yemen from a peak of 15,000 to 5,000, confirming a drawdown in a conflict which he said could not […]

December 8, 2019 Focus Washington

House Impeachment Report Looks at Abuse, Bribery, Corruption

Previewing potential articles of impeachment, the House Democrats on Saturday issued a lengthy report drawing on history and the Founding Fathers to lay out the legal argument over the case against President Donald Trump’s actions […]

December 7, 2019 Focus Washington

Musk Wins Defamation Trial over ‘Pedo Guy’ Tweet

Tesla CEO Elon Musk emerged victorious on Friday from a closely watched defamation trial as a federal court jury swiftly rejected the $190 million claim brought against him by a British cave explorer who Musk […]

December 6, 2019 Focus Washington

Trump Wants Supreme Court to Stop Banks from Disclosing His Financial Data

President Donald Trump, fighting to keep details of his finances secret, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to prevent records held by Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp from being handed over to […]