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As a leading female diplomat, a political target of the president’s allies and a character at the center of the Ukraine drama, Yovanovitch has crucial knowledge to impart when she testifies at Friday’s impeachment hearing. She also enters the spotlight as the latest woman who has refused to acquiesce to Trump in the face of […]

His campaign forgot to register the domain devalpatrick2020.org, so it’s instead forwarding to a harsh piece by Howie Carr, a Boston Herald columnist and longtime Patrick antagonist. The former Massachusetts governor is proposing an audacious move — replicating in a few weeks what other presidential candidates have been trying to create for years — but […]

The liberal group Demand Justice rolled up a truck that replayed Ford’s testimony that a drunken Kavanaugh had assaulted her when both were teenagers. Kavanaugh has vehemently denied the accusation, and was narrowly approved by the Republican-majority Senate. Protesters changed “Impeach Kavanaugh.” Kavanaugh attended last year’s Federalist Society gala just after his confirmation but said […]

Traumatized by recent elections, jittery about their field and desperate to defeat President Trump, Democrats are increasingly worried about a potential third-party candidacy, as the primaries approach and well-known figures are openly weighing their options. Such a candidate could siphon critical votes in pivotal states, they fear, as happened in 2000 and 2016, helping Republicans […]

One GOP senator after another took turns confronting the Turkish president, according to those present, as Republican lawmakers challenged Erdogan on Turkey’s violent incursion into northern Syria last month and his country’s purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia. Throughout the discussion Wednesday, Trump largely hung back, allowing the senators to project a […]

The trio had a powerful ally, he added: President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani. “I thought it was exceedingly strange,” Yovanovitch said, according to a transcript of her closed-door testimony last month. The impeachment inquiry has pulled back the curtain on a long and murky effort to engineer the ambassador’s removal — one driven […]

The actor behind Star Wars‘ Greedo has searched his feelings about the strange new Disney+ version, but he’s coming up short of an explanation. When Disney+ launched this week, Star Wars fans were baffled to find yet another change to a classic scene in the original 1977 film: the showdown between Han and Greedo, which […]

Spano has blamed bad advice for any campaign-finance misdeeds stemming from the loans, and he continued to make that case Thursday. Under federal law, individuals may contribute no more than $2,700 to House candidates. “We plan to cooperate fully with the Justice Department on this matter,” he said in a statement. “As I’ve said before, […]

A multi-layer structure installed by Obama had “hindered our diplomatic effectiveness,” and made it harder for those making decisions to get a clear stream of advice, Holmes wrote in his award-winning dissent. A write-up of the award in the Foreign Service Journal includes a photo of Holmes with Obama, whom he served as a staffer […]

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The actor behind Star Wars‘ Greedo has searched his feelings about the strange new Disney+ version, but he’s coming up short of an explanation. When Disney+ launched this week, Star Wars fans were baffled to find yet another change to a classic scene in the original 1977 film: the showdown between Han and Greedo, which […]

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) had to interrupt his own Senate floor speech on the rise of gun violence in the U.S. on Thursday to announce to his colleagues that another deadly school shooting had just taken place ― this time in Southern California. Blumenthal first learned of the mass shooting while speaking about the need […]

One of the key objections Republicans have raised against the House impeachment inquiry over the past month is the way Democrats have run it: secretly, behind closed doors and without sufficient opportunities for President Donald Trump to defend himself. But now that House impeachment investigators have begun holding public hearings, with a handful more scheduled next […]

Kentucky’s gubernatorial race has come to a close, as Republican incumbent Governor Matt Bevin has officially conceded to Democrat Andy Beshear.  Bevin previously called for a recanvass to double check how votes were added, after last Tuesday’s results showed him more than 5,000 votes behind Beshear. Before the last county reported for the recanvass on […]

Washington — President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to block a subpoena for his tax returns, in a test of the president’s ability to defy investigations. The filing Thursday sets the stage for a high court showdown over the tax returns Mr. Trump has refused to release, a departure from the practice of every […]

As the Democratic presidential campaign enters the final 100 days before Nevada’s caucuses, a handful of reforms adopted after the 2016 presidential race have created new challenges for candidates and the state’s Democratic party. Nevada holds the third contest of the Democratic caucuses, and is a crucial test of candidates’ support among Hispanics, Asian Americans and the state’s […]

But unlike these other OMB officials, Sandy is a career employee, not one appointed by the president. He has worked at the agency off and on for over a decade, under presidents of both parties, climbing the ranks into his current role as deputy associate director for national security programs. “If he is subpoenaed, he […]