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Strong faith in the judicial system seems to have no place in the playbook for ex-members of Trump's political team.
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The U.S. Senate opened the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump with quiet ceremony Thursday.
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The U.S. Central Command said Thursday that several U.S. soldiers were injured in an Iranian missile attack on two bases in Iraq earlier this month.
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2020 will be a momentous political year. Here's a calendar of important days in national politics to watch for.
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The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says she was sexually assaulted by a doctor while she was pregnant with the couple's first child.
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Iran's supreme leader said President Donald Trump is a "clown" who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will "push a poisonous dagger" into their backs, as he struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years.
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With a two-thirds majority required to remove Trump from office, odds favor acquittal by the Republican majority. But there's no guarantee that he won't end up bruised and battered,
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Get complete coverage of the House's impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
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Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are calling for sanctions after a Bethpage man died in custody in Cairo.
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But Lev Parnas said Rudy Giuliani tapped him to act on Trump's behalf in Ukraine to push for a probe that could have benefitted Trump politically.
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The trial will test not only Trump's presidency but also the nation's three branches of power and its system of checks and balances.
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Since Trump likes tariff threats, for instance, it was no shock that he threatened tariffs on autos if Europeans did not help dismantle the Iran nuclear deal.