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House impeachment managers and President Donald Trump’s legal team took their final shots Monday in the Senate impeachment trial as they made closing arguments. For any undecided senators, it was among their last opportunities to review arguments, but as has been the case throughout the full trial, the Senate controlled what the public saw on

The State Department is recommending US citizens who remain in China take precautionary measures, including “stocking up on food,” in the face of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak that has spread worldwide. Last week the US raised its travel advisory for China its highest level — Level 4: Do Not Travel — and continues to urge

When he delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump will directly cross paths with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the first time in months. According to a Pelosi spokesman, the two have not spoken since the October 16 meeting in which Trump insulted Pelosi, including calling her a “third-grade politician,”

Elizabeth Warren has been busy trying to snatch up last-minute endorsements in Iowa with the caucuses just around the corner. But rather than making that outreach in person in the Hawkeye State, Warren has been doing it over the phone from Washington, DC, where she and her colleagues in the Senate have been serving as

The Senate’s impeachment trial is careening toward its inevitable end, even if the timing on that end isn’t yet clear. The Senate voted 51-49 against calling witnesses on Friday evening, with two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah, joining Democrats to back extending the trial. Questions around whether witnesses would

Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican up for reelection in November, became on Thursday the first GOP senator to say she would vote in favor of hearing from additional witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Read her full statement here: “We have heard the cases argued and the questions answered. In keeping

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two associates of Rudy Giuliani, attended a fundraising dinner with President Donald Trump and then-Congressman Pete Sessions in April 2018, according to a new video recording that was released on Thursday. The video is the second recording released in a week that purports to show the indicted Giuliani associates’ ability

Amid the intense focus on the Senate impeachment trial and Monday’s Iowa caucuses in the presidential race, you likely missed this announcement from the Congressional Budget Office: The budget deficit is projected to top $1 trillion in 2020 — and to stay at or above that 13-figure mark for the remainder of the decade. Why

Just days before the Iowa caucuses, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s tweet went viral — but for all the wrong reasons. The message was one very reminiscent of the pitch he had been making to Iowa voters in the closing days before the first votes of the 2020 campaign. “In the face of

The South Dakota House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would criminalize doctors who assist in the gender reassignment process for transgender youth, pushing the state closer to becoming the first to pass such a restriction. The Republican-controlled chamber passed HB 1057, known as the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, by a vote of

A Libyan man who acted as a scout for the Islamist militia that stormed the US consulate in Benghazi in 2012 was sentenced to 19 and a half years in prison Thursday by a federal judge in Washington. Mustafa al-Imam was convicted last summer of destroying property at the US diplomatic compound in the Libyan

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that the White House is already crafting a package of tax cuts for the middle class as President Donald Trump hopes to secure a second term in November. In an interview with CNBC from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mnuchin said Trump has already directed his economic

In CNN’s new national poll, 45% of Americans say that President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office. That’s down from 50% who said the same in CNN polls in October and November. Which is good news for Trump, right? Trump certainly thinks it is! “Impeachment Poll numbers are starting to drop like

Here are the stories our panel of top political reporters have on their radar, in this week’s “Inside Politics” forecast. 1. Trump’s rally strategy This week in Michigan, President Donald Trump will hold his 85th campaign rally since winning the presidency. And these rallies have become about a lot more than merely a trademark Trump

A bipartisan group of lawmakers are unveiling new legislation on Wednesday that hopes to prevent gun violence by promoting the safe storage of firearms. The legislation, titled the Prevent Family Fire Act of 2019, is being introduced in the House by Democratic Rep. Mike Levin of California and Republican Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois. It