Amid the many words spoken—some passionate, some false, some bitter—in the late-night session of the House Judiciary Committee last Wednesday, one line, in a speech

The Ukrainian government and Russian-backed separatist forces held a prisoner swap in the country’s war-ravaged east Sunday in the latest sign of efforts to ease

  “The framers never envisioned a stunt pulled by a speaker of the House like Nancy Pelosi holding onto articles of impeachment. Two decades ago

The US president going to church on Christmas Eve should not have attracted much attention. But it was the specific church Donald Trump chose to

Of all the names featured in the private depositions and public testimonies of the Presidential impeachment inquiry—Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani; Giuliani’s

The “striking” difference between the Bill Clinton and Donald Trump impeachments, argue MSNBC hosts and others in the media, was not only the willingness of

On today’s trip down memory lane we revisit our sit-down interview with Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch. Listen to the interview: Watch the Tom

On Thursday evening, Donald Trump pushed out on Twitter the name of the alleged whistleblower whose complaint led to the president’s impeachment. Trump’s personal Twitter

Old James Madison was one of those who, in helping to compose the Constitution, had agreed that a president could be impeached, and if convicted,

  White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for holding up an impeachment trial in

WASHINGTON — The House Democratic majority’s vote last week to impeach President Donald Trump — and the Senate Republican majority’s expected acquittal next year —

2019 was a banner year for confirming federal judges — an accomplishment that will reverberate long after many of the leading stories of the year,

The shock of Donald Trump’s election, in November, 2016, obscured a tragedy of equal moment—the eclipse of reason, fact, and ethical judgment in the Republican

Convict Trump—or else. That’s the message liberal advocacy groups are trying to send to Republican senators in hopes of pressuring them to vote for President

Jewish groups intensified criticism on Tuesday of Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor turned president’s lawyer and freelancing Ukrainian envoy, after he attacked Jewish

“Like most of us, President Trump’s ancestors were immigrants, and he is married to our amazing First Lady who is herself an immigrant,” Trump campaign

One night in 1953, the Reverend Billy Graham awoke at two in the morning, went to his study, and started writing down ideas for the

A great nation, divided against itself. An historically successful president, under siege. Democrats in Congress, attempting to nullify an election. Sound familiar? The American republic

President Donald Trump is quite generous when it comes to giving to his family throughout the year and around Christmas time, according to his daughter-in-law

Introduction The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. When President Donald Trump

After months of false starts and threats and endless posturing, Donald Trump has joined Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, becoming the third American president impeached

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Photo: saul loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to withhold the House articles

At FiveThirtyEight, Perry Bacon argues that President Trump completed his takeover of the Republican Party this year. I think that’s right. Trump’s control of congressional

By Susan Smith Richardson and Jim Morris, Center for Public Integrity This weekend, emails about Ukraine military aid released to the Center for Public Integrity

He says he knows more about Isis than his generals, and claims to understand politicians “better than anybody”. Now there is another subject in which

That bolsters the Trump administration’s argument that the courts should simply butt out of the legal showdown, the DOJ filing says. “The reasons for refraining

LB and GWB participate in swearing in ceremony of Judge John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States in the East Room. WASHINGTON—For Chief

This Manhattanite came to office with a big reform agenda, ready to toss out the old establishment and fight corruption. He asserted: “Political conventions must

ALLENDALE, S.C. — If you want to hear a song about impeaching a president, you have a lot of options: Flo Rida, Mick Jagger, Freddie

A senior White House official and leading Senate Republicans predicted Sunday that congressional Democrats would fail in their bid to force the Senate to summon

Democrats Sunday issued new demands for Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to call witnesses that the President refused to provide for the House investigation.

Now that President Donald Trump has gotten wind of the fact that he might not yet have been impeached, we should make some things abundantly

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has officially invited President Trump to deliver his annual State of the Union address on Feb. 4. “In their great wisdom,

This week on the Sunday news shows:  an MSNBC guest argued that the media’s focus on interviewing white working class voters is “dangerous” and “racist,”

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday described House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to keep the articles of impeachment from the Senate’s gaze as “a

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Photo: Julio Cortez/Associated Press Congress has left town for the year but alas not before another bipartisan spending party

(Scott Johnson) With the heat generated by the Pelosi Players performing their impeachment farce in the House of Representatives last week, Martha MacCallum’s interview with

As the nation contemplates the first impeachment trial of a President in a generation, my own thoughts turn to covering the last one, in 1999,

House Democrats spent at least $3 million of taxpayers’ money in under three months pursuing the impeachment of President Donald Trump, counting the cost of

Trump’s remarks came as he kicked off his two-week winter getaway with the keynote address to Turning Point USA’s annual student action summit here, not

This week, the editor of Christianity Today, an evangelical magazine that was founded in the nineteen-fifties by the Reverend Billy Graham, came out against Donald

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OK, just one more post—probably. The U.S. Constitution gives to the House of Representatives the “sole Power of Impeachment.” But what exactly is this power

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Commentary Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty ImagesU.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks about legislation the House has passed as she holds a

By R. Jeffrey Smith, Center for Public Integrity When President Donald Trump ordered a halt to aid to Ukraine last summer, defense officials and diplomats

Nancy Pelosi promised as speaker she would “show the power of the gavel”. This year, she laid it out for all to see. The past

One factor that made it hard, this week, to really feel the historic weight of the House’s vote to impeach President Donald Trump was how

Are we there yet? Probably. As I noted in an earlier post, because the Democratic leadership has decided to sit on the articles of impeachment

Professor Noah Feldman, whose biography of James Madison I admire, embarrassed himself when he testified about impeachment before the House Judiciary Committee. Now, he is

That’s pretty much everything the Constitution has to say about the impeachment process. And because there have been just two impeachments prior to this week

With the shine off their impeachment vote and President Trump’s fate seemingly secure in the Senate’s hands, the leading Democratic candidates to unseat him turned

Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES The Impeachment Standoff Under normal circumstances, the impeachment of President Trump would now be headed

Despite any potential shadows cast by impeachment, the American economy is forging ahead to the highest rating in nearly two decades. According to a CNN

News Sarah Silbiger /Getty ImagesHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., walk away from the House floor in the U.S.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rising Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg came under attack during a debate among U.S. presidential hopefuls on Thursday, as his rivals questioned

https://youtu.be/Sclhp2HNYTU  Media caption Mitch McConnell, who will decide the trial’s terms, condemns the “unfair impeachment inquiry” US President Donald Trump has demanded an immediate impeachment

New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew has completely flipped parties from Democrat to Republican at an important turning point in modern history voting against the

On the Friday interview edition of the Daily Daily Caller Podcast we sit down with John Lott and Nikki Goeser her new book, “Stalked And

After the Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested Democrats were getting “cold feet” over sending articles of impeachment to the Senate, Nancy Pelosi again twisted the

Talk show host and former top Reagan Justice Department official Mark Levin called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to declare the House impeachment of

Why are the Democrats pursuing their futile impeachment charade? Obviously, it is partly out of sheer partisan hate that isn’t necessarily connected to any rational

President Donald Trump says White House counsel Pat Cipollone will lead his defense team in the Senate impeachment trial, but House Democrats’ tactics mean it

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld rallied to President Donald Trump’s defense on Thursday, claiming the president suggesting deceased Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) was in hell

Looming over the high-stakes debate are those who won’t be in attendance. The Democratic National Committee said candidates had to hit at least 4% in

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican in the U.S. Senate on Thursday called on his fellow senators to correct what he called the “toxic” impeachment

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks Thursday during his annual news conference in Moscow. During the four-hour session, the longtime Russian leader called the U.S. impeachment

On Tuesday night, on the eve of the impeachment vote in the House of Representatives, more than six hundred pro-impeachment rallies were held across the

Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES Trump Is Impeached. What’s Next? A sharply divided House of Representatives has impeached President Trump

It was the ‘most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair’ impeachment inquiry in modern history’ conducted by House Democrats, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch

Department of Defense senior leaders attend the 9/11 Observance Ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Sept. 11, 2017. During the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,

House Democrats voted Wednesday evening to impeach Donald Trump but, media high-fives aside, what have they accomplished? They have failed to persuade the country; they

Commentary Scott Olson / Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump addresses his impeachment during a “Merry Christmas” rally at the Kellogg Arena on Dec. 18, 2019 in

Heritage Foundation legal scholar Tom Jipping joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the House’s impeachment process, and what’s next in the Senate. Read a

When our kids were little, we would make Santa’s magic boot prints from the front door to the Christmas tree by sprinkling baking soda around

On Wednesday evening, just shy of 8:30 p.m. ET, President Trump was inaugurated into one of the most exclusive boys’ clubs in the world: He

Just shy of the third anniversary of his presidency, Donald Trump was impeached in a mostly party-line vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump on Wednesday became the third U.S. president to be impeached as the House of Representatives formally charged him with abuse

Lawmakers take the historic step of voting on two articles of impeachment.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announces the passage of the first article of impeachment, abuse of power, against President Trump by the House of Representatives

Mark Twain, no fan of the legislative branch of the federal government, famously wrote that “fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.”

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. President Trump will likely be impeached by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his administration fumed Wednesday as the House prepared to vote to impeach him, and they prepared in turn for

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionA beginner’s guide to impeachment and Trump Donald Trump is expected to become only the third US

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently told reporters she ‘prays for the President all the time.’ It happened when Sinclair reporter James Rosen asked her if

Rep. David Cicilline (D., R.I.) on Wednesday said U.S. citizens will be living under a dictatorship if President Donald Trump isn’t impeached. “He tried to

Jim Acosta is clearly not a quick learner. After three years of trying to bigfoot his way around White House coverage, the preening CNN correspondent

Sen. Ted Cruz says Democrats are treating impeachment as a political weapon.  “What the House Democrats are doing is they’re just treating impeachment as a

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump woke up in the White House Wednesday morning and expressed utter disbelief that he will likely become just the

Trump impeachment hearings: Here’s how the process works originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Impeachment proceedings for Donald Trump are rolling full steam ahead, with the House

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – On the eve of his expected impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives, President Donald Trump accused Democrats of pursuing an “illegal,

Democrats also accuse Trump of dispatching his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to pressure Ukrainian officials to launch the probes. They said Trump sought to further

“Impeachment March” trended on Twitter as protestors held rallies across America in support of the effort to remove President Donald Trump from office. The House

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jared Golden makes it a near-perfect sweep. With his announcement Tuesday evening that he’ll back one of the two articles of impeachment

Tens of thousands of people across the country marched in support of impeaching President Trump Tuesday, from a demonstration through a rainy Times Square to

Image copyright AFP Image caption Bill Taylor testified that President Trump directly asked about a Ukrainian investigation into his Democratic rival Joe Biden Acting US

One day before the Democrat-led House is set to vote on impeachment, President Donald Trump sent a scathing six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

8.16pm EST 20:16 Because of you, our journalism thrived in 2019 … A message from the Guardian US editor-in-chief: This year, readers across all 50

In the letter, Trump repeated many of the themes he’s expressed in 280-character bursts and impromptu remarks at rallies and in the West Wing. But

On Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California and the Speaker of the House, will preside over an irreconcilable House of Representatives as it begins

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters Tuesday not to expect him to behave in a bipartisan fashion during President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment trial.

President Trump listed no new arguments or requests but vented his frustrations with the impeachment process in a six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe 86-year-old justice gives her verdict on the president’s legal tweets Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Doug Collins (R-GA) called the Democrats’ impeachment charges against President Donald Trump “vague.” Democrats charged Trump with abuse of power

As the U.S. presidential race began roaring to life in 2016, authorities in the former Soviet republic of Latvia flagged a series of “ suspicious”

Ahead of the former FBI director’s appearance on Fox News, President Donald Trump blasted the network for putting James Comey on the air. “Hard to

Former first lady Hillary Clinton on Monday tweeted her support for protesters urging President Donald Trump’s impeachment. Clinton promoted protests by left-wing activist group Indivisible, which

(FromR) US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee US Representative Jerry Nadler. (Photo by

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty A former Ukrainian diplomat who alleges Kyiv meddled in the U.S. 2016 elections is set to begin sharing documents

Rudy did it again. Last Friday, Giuliani gave an interview to the Huffington Post, and the subject of Trump fixer Michael Cohen’s recently revealed arrangement with AT&T

Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES The Long and Short of a Senate Trial As the House prepares to vote to

While the House of Representatives is set to vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump in the coming days, CBS News’ campaign reporters say

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Donald Trump certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth. But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. WASHINGTON — Two of the House Democrats from the reddest districts in

ROCHESTER, Mich. — Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., received both standing ovations and jeers from voters at a town hall here Monday morning as the vulnerable

A large electronic billboard asking “What is Trump hiding?” appeared in Times Square, in New York City yesterday. “If the President did nothing wrong, what

Chief, Law Enforcement, U.S. Border Patrol Brian Hastingstestifies before the House Committee on the Judiciary in a hearing titled “Oversight of Family Separation and U.S.

Until today, I didn’t know how you could possibly make a film class that touches on Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” more controversial than it could be

Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade confessed on Monday that the latest Fox News poll, showing more than half of Americans support impeachment, left him

Mr. Trump has told advisers that he does not trust the Commission on Presidential Debates, the nonprofit entity that sponsors the debates, the two people

WASHINGTON — After all of the televised hearings, the new revelations and the partisan back-and-forth, public attitudes about the impeachment of President Trump have barely

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Chuck Schumer (right) made the appeal for witnesses in a letter to Mitch McConnell (left) The US Senate’s top Democrat

The Constitution specifies that the “Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments,” and that when “sitting for that Purpose, they shall be

WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives could vote as soon as Wednesday to formally charge President Donald Trump, a Republican, with “high crimes

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, about how uncertainty in Washington and London may affect global

Maybe, in some alternate universe, on the second day of the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing about the Democrats’ articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, Republicans

Five senior aides to New Jersey Democratic Congressman Jefferson Van Drew resigned this weekend over the lawmaker’s reported plans to switch political parties. In a

As the House prepares to vote this week to impeach President Trump, leaders of the Senate began sparring Sunday over which witnesses each party might

In a rare interview on Fox News’ “Hannity” Thursday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expressed certainty that President Donald Trump would stay in

This week on the Sunday news shows: former FBI director James Comey said he was wrong about the FBI’s handling of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance

Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes tore into Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff in a letter Sunday that suggested Schiff was “complicit in the violation” of

A bulldog in defense of the Trump administration thus far in impeachment proceedings brought by House Democrats regarding the Ukraine scandal, Rep. Matt Gaetz outdid

Despite impeachment and unclear re-election prospects, presidential favor is as in demand as ever. US President Donald Trump at NATO gathering in London this week,

Much as he gleefully signaled in the days leading up to the election that the Trump campaign had “something up their sleeves” to derail Hillary

Rep. Jeff Van Drew, D-N.J., who has opposed the impeachment of President Trump for months, is planning to jump to the Republican Party. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll

Republicans and Democrats in New Jersey have responded critically after reports that Democratic Representative Jeff Van Drew plans to switch political parties, with one GOP

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already knows how this whole impeachment thing is going to go down ― it’ll end exactly how President Donald Trump

The divisive state of American politics as seen through holiday dinner table conversation at three typical but disparate households got the “Saturday Night Live” treatment

The House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jerrold Nadler, passed the two articles of impeachment Friday against President Donald Trump: abuse of power and obstructing Congress.

For weeks now, Democratic members of Congress, career State Department and National Security Council experts and their allies in the media suggest questions about Joe

Food for thought: “Unless Saudi Arabia has a conversion moment that credibly repudiates the extreme wing of Islam it has practiced and taught for decades,

The vote by the House Judiciary Committee Friday to adopt two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump makes it clear that Democrats are moving full speed

Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four,” George Orwell wrote in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. “If that

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has invited Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to appear in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee to present information he claims

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday took Republican President Donald Trump to the brink of impeachment by approving two

A Democratic congressman from a swing district in southern New Jersey — who has been outspoken in his opposition to President Donald Trump’s impeachment —

Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES Why So Many Roads Still Lead to Russia When the House Judiciary Committee began its

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I honor and applaud Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s service to his country. He’s a hero. I also respect his decision to testify at the