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Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. In an editorial published Friday, the board said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and his co-House impeachment managers had laid out “the hard evidence” to the GOP-controlled Senate that Trump “used presidential powers to pressure Ukraine into announcing investigations that would aid his reelection campaign, and that he engaged in […]

The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan nails the hypocrisy of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in a new video that calls the GOP lawmaker “the most shameless man in American politics.” Hasan notes in the clip released Friday that Graham has a “lot of competition” when it comes “to shameless, hypocritical, dishonest politicians” — from President Donald Trump, […]

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Twitter has filed a new motion to dismiss a $250 million lawsuit by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) against the company and two parody Twitter accounts that mocked him. Nunes sued Twitter and @DevinCow and @DevinNunesMom (now suspended) last year, claiming Twitter failed to take action against comments he claimed defamed him. His lawsuit triggered an […]

“Not true!” an indignant Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) bristled afterward, saying senators were “visibly upset” by the comment. “Nothing like going through three days of frustration and then cap it with an insult on everybody.” The reference came from a CBS News report that had gone viral earlier Friday, quoting an anonymous Trump confidant claiming […]

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchiff pleads to Senate GOP: ‘Right matters. And the truth matters.’ Anita Hill to Iowa crowd: ‘Statute of limitations’ for Biden apology is ‘up’ Sen. Van Hollen releases documents from GAO investigation MORE on Friday said he would advise his defense team in the Senate impeachment trial to “just be honest” ahead […]

A Trump campaign staffer, James Xing, died in Marion, Iowa, on Thursday night, the Republican party said. Sources with knowledge of the situation told CBS News that Xing was found dead in his home on Friday morning and foul play was not suspected in the case. Xing served as Trump campaign Regional Field Director in […]

Trump’s new Space Force logo is seemingly beamed up straight from the Enterprise. The president revealed the official logo for the Space Force in a tweet on Friday, and people were quick to point out its striking resemblance to the iconic logo for Starfleet, the space force for the United Federation of Planets in the […]

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WASHINGTON ― Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Friday night implored Republican senators to show “moral courage” as they consider whether to remove President Donald Trump from office for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. “Real political courage doesn’t come from disagreeing with our opponents but from disagreeing with our friends, and with our own […]

“He is a dictator,” House impeachment manager Rep. Jerrold E. Nadler (D-N.Y.) said of Trump. “This must not stand.” Let’s review what obstruction of Congress means and why Democrats really think Trump should be removed from office for it. What the obstruction of Congress charge is about Democrats say that Trump blocked Congress’s investigation into […]

A day after indicating he would cut entitlement programs, including Social Security and Medicare, President Donald Trump vowed to save Social Security — from the Democrats. Trump may have tipped his hand about cutting the programs way too early — well before the election — in an interview Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland, with CNBC reporter […]

The head of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, issued a statement saying that although Sanders has “run a campaign unabashedly supportive of the rights of LGBTQ people,” Rogan has “attacked transgender people, gay men, women, people of color and countless marginalized groups at every opportunity.” “Given Rogan’s comments, it is […]

Washington — House impeachment managers finished their opening arguments in President Trump’s impeachment trial on Friday with an impassioned plea for a fair trial. Mr. Trump’s lawyers will start their opening arguments on Saturday. “Give America a fair trial,” Congressman Adam Schiff said. “She’s worth it.” Congressman Jerry Nadler, meanwhile, called Mr. Trump a “dictator” […]

Los Angeles — Ken Cuccinelli, one of President Trump’s top immigration officials, previewed on Friday an expansion of a series of controversial policies the administration has implemented to severely restrict access to America’s asylum system at the southern border and deter U.S.-bound migrants. Cuccinelli, an immigration hard-liner and the second-highest ranking official at the Department […]

The appearance also followed a threat Friday from the Trump administration to withhold federal funding from California over its requirement that private insurers cover abortions — a move state officials immediately denounced as a “cheap political” shot timed to coincide with the antiabortion rally. Taking the lectern to his campaign theme, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless […]

Schiff’s pointed and increasingly personal approach was an attempt to go beyond the specifics of House Democrats’ case to make the broader argument that Trump is an untrustworthy president who is likely to repeatedly flout the Constitution if allowed to stay in office. “It goes to character,” Schiff said. “You don’t realize how important character […]

Lawyers say they want the New Orleans Saints and its spokesman to testify about that football team’s public relations assistance to the Archdiocese of New Orleans regarding clergy sexual abuse cases, court documents reveal. The lawyers represent a man who is suing the archdiocese on claims he was sexually abused as a boy by a […]