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The president's defenders pointed to instances when Democrats used the same language to defend Bill Clinton.
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At least five House Democrats compared the impeachment proceedings of President Bill Clinton to a "lynching" or to a "lynch mob" in 1998. The comments came to light after President Trump on Tuesday compared the impeachment inquiry to a "lynching."
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Acting ambassador Bill Taylor offered a detailed timeline of Trump's actions and his own awareness of them.
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But Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says it is "undeniably frustrating" that MPs rejected the timetable for the bill.
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Ambassador William Taylor told lawmakers that "irregular channels" and demands for political investigations in Kyiv were warping U.S. policy on Ukraine.
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The allegations were published last week by a conservative website that included intimate photos.
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Acting Ukraine ambassador William B. Taylor Jr. testified that E.U. Ambassador Gordon Sondland told him that "President Trump wanted President Zelensky ‘in a public box' by making a public statement about ordering such investigations' " and that " ‘everything' was dependent on such an announcement, including security assistance.' "
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Most were not familiar with Buttigieg before the survey, according to the report.
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The author's original 2018 column in the New York Times ricocheted around the world and stoked the president's rage because of its devastating portrayal of Trump in office.
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 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez alleged Tuesday that President Trump described Democrats' treatment of him during their impeachment inquiry as a "lynching" specifically to upset his political opponents.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson got a vote of support from Parliament, which then insisted the deal with the EU be delayed.
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 Vice President Mike Pence said there is "no historical basis" for the Democrats' continued impeachment push -- and promised to fight back with the truth about President Trump's record.
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 The top US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, testified behind closed doors Tuesday as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry led by House Democrats. In his opening statement, Taylor gave an account of his concern, beginning in August of this year, that the US relationship with Ukraine "was being fundamentally undermined by an irregular, informal channel of U.S. policy-making" led by President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
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The top US diplomat in Ukraine Bill Taylor testified to three House committees that he had been told President Donald Trump would withhold military aid to the country until it declared investigations would be launched that could help his reelection chances. CNN's Erin Burnett reports on that, and other key moments from the closed-door testimony.
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 The top American diplomat in Ukraine testified on Tuesday that President Donald Trump made the release of U.S. security aid to Ukraine contingent on Kiev publicly declaring it would carry out politically motivated investigations that he demanded.
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 Democratic 2020 hopeful Tulsi Gabbard criticized the lack of transparency in her own party's impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard assailed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a new campaign video on Tuesday.
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William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, said the Trump administration made repeated quid pro quo demands to Ukraine.
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The California freshman denied a report of a relationship with a congressional staff member, which House rules forbid, but refused to comment on whether she was intimately involved with a campaign aide.
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The president is scheduled to give the keynote address on the opening day of a justice forum in Columbia, S.C.
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Acting US Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor plans to fill in the gaps of his text messages with US diplomats about Ukraine that have formed a key part of the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump and Ukraine, according to a source familiar with his testimony.
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President Donald Trump's G7 and trade adviser, Kelly Ann Shaw, is leaving his administration for a position in the private sector, White House officials said on Tuesday, marking the departure of one of the most senior women on the president's economic team.
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US special envoy for Syria and the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Jim Jeffrey said Tuesday that he was not consulted or advised in advance on President Donald Trump's decision to pull US troops from northeastern Syria.
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MPs support the PM's bill at first stage, but vote against pushing it through the Commons in three days.
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President Piñera says he is ready to forge "a new social contract" as protests continue.
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 Georges Schneider/AFP/GettyVictoria Toensing and Joe DiGenova, the pro-Trump lawyers representing a Ukrainian oligarch wanted by U.S. authorities on conspiracy charges, reportedly met personally with Attorney General William Barr in July—at the height of Rudy Giuliani's hunt for kompromat on Joe Biden in Ukraine.
Citing three sources familiar with the meeting, The Washington Post reports that diGenova and Toensing argued against the charges facing Dmitry Firtash—who has been described by federal prosecutors as having connections to the "upper echelons" of Russian organized crime—in the meeting with Barr and other Justice Department officials. Barr is said to have refused to intercede.
Firtash, who has been fighting extradition to the U.S. on bribery and corruption charges from Vienna for more than five years, had only recently hired Toensing and diGenova at the time of the reported meeting. According to Bloomberg, he paid them $1 million earlier this year to dig up dirt on Biden in a bid to get Giuliani's help with his legal woes.
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 A prolific political fundraiser who raised millions of dollars for Democrats before donating large sums to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee has agreed to plead guilty to multiple federal charges, including tax evasion and concealing his work as a foreign agent as he lobbied high-level U.S. government officials, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
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Support for impeaching U.S. President Donald Trump surged among political independents and rose by three percentage points overall since last week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.
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 Pennsylvania on Monday became the 19th state to introduce a "heartbeat" bill, banning abortion once a fetal heartbeat has been detected.
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William B. Taylor Jr. laid out in visceral terms the potentially life-or-death stakes of what he saw as an illegitimate scheme to pressure Kiev for political help by suspending American security aid.
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U.S. Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren rallied with striking Chicago teachers on Tuesday, expressing support for the union's demands before the country's third-largest school system canceled classes for a fifth day.
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In the spring of 2000 amid a disastrously bad season, Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino chided fans of the team for pining for a glorious past that wasn't returning. "Larry Bird is not walking through that door, fans," Pitino said of the legendary Celt in that now-infamous rant.
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A 16-year-old is in stable condition after the shooting outside Ridgway High School, but a motive is still unclear.
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The 30-second digital spot features a popular line from Sanders' speech at the rally and images of the huge crowd.
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The identity of the author — previously described as a Trump administration official — is expected to remain secret.
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 via TwitterA Los Angeles financier who donated $900,000 to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee has admitted to falsifying records to hide his work as a foreign agent while he lobbied prominent U.S. government officials, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Shah Zuberi, 49, also known as "Imaad Zuberi," has agreed to plead guilty to three counts in a criminal information for allegedly making almost $1 million in illegal campaign contributions, engaging in various lobbying efforts, and evading taxes, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Central District of California.
"Mr. Zuberi's multi-faceted scheme allowed him to line his pockets by concealing the fact that he was representing foreign clients, obtaining access for clients by making a long series of illegal contributions, and skimming money paid by his clients," United States Attorney Nick Hanna said in a press release Tuesday announcing the charges.
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 The GOP plan comes after Republicans were unable to agree on an option to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act while they held both the House and the Senate during the first two years of President Trump's administration.
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EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier did not comment when asked about the UK PM's Commons defeat.
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Boris Johnson reacts to MPs approving his Brexit deal but rejecting the short timetable he proposed to review it.
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Some GOP lawmakers defended the president, while others simply declined to criticize him.
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Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, rallied with striking Chicago teachers on Tuesday, expressing support for the union's demands as the country's third-largest school system entered a fourth day of canceled classes.
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 President Trump comparison of the House Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry to "a lynching" was promptly condemned by many critics. But three prominent GOP senators came to his defense.
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Half of Americans say President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, a new high in CNN polling on the topic and the first time that support for impeachment and removal has significantly outpaced opposition.
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Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, is expected to rally with striking Chicago school teachers on Tuesday as a work-stoppage led to classes being canceled for a fourth-day in the third-largest U.S. school system.
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Officials say eight people were killed on Sunday as looting broke out, bringing the total to 11.
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Vermont independent senator and 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held the largest campaign rally of the primary season so far on Saturday. An estimated 26,000 supporters packed into Queensbridge Park in New York City. The event was held in the shadow of the nation's largest public housing development. It was Sanders's first campaign rally since he suffered a heart attack earlier this month. Sanders was joined on stage by three prominent supporters: Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico; filmmaker Michael Moore; and Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who volunteered on Sanders's 2016 campaign before being elected to the House of Representatives in 2018. Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Sanders at the rally.
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 Courtesy Matthew MurphyThe gold standard phantom in the room at Broadway's Hudson Theatre, where David Byrne's American Utopia opens tonight (to January 19), is Bruce Springsteen. It was the Boss' show in 2017 that set the high mark for musicians and rock stars coming to Broadway to play more intimate settings than their usual huge concert venues.
On these musicians' side automatically: their fans will buy the tickets. For music stars coming to Broadway, there is their own ready-made audience, and it is a devoted one.
So, then it comes down to effort and ingenuity—hence the Springsteen gold standard. Springsteen did not only sing songs that his fans wanted to hear, he produced a piece of compelling theater. David Byrne achieves the same, though differently.
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 The president's decision to bulk up his legal team with former congressman Trey Gowdy amid a widening impeachment inquiry is drawing criticism from one of his high-profile supporters.
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