“Why is the president threatening Iran with war crimes?” George Stephanopoulos asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on ABC’s This Week on Sunday. It’s a rather stunning question in and of itself. But Pompeo basically refuted President Donald Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites, answering, “We’ll behave lawfully.” The …
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After weeks of bad-faith complaints from the right about the impeachment inquiry‘s lack of “due process,” the House Judiciary Committee offered President Trump the opportunity to have lawyers present when it holds its first hearing on Wednesday. President Trump isn’t interested. On Sunday night, the White House legal team informed …
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On Thursday, yielding to Trump once again, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, launched a probe into the baseless claims alleging Joe Biden was involved with corruption in Ukraine. On Friday, the presidential candidate spoke with CNN’s Don Lemon and expressed anger and disappointment in his …
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WASHINGTON — There was a moment of confusion just after the two-hour mark in Tuesday’s public impeachment hearing, featuring witnesses Jennifer Williams, an aide to the vice president, and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an Iraq war veteran and Purple Heart recipient who is the top Ukraine expert on the National …
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Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley for President Donald Trump claims that two top former administration aides, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, told her that “when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the …
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The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations of its plans to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, the international agreement to reduce emissions into which every other nation in the world — from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe — has agreed to enter. When the U.S. …
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Senator Lindsey Graham is “a piece of shit,” said former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, speaking on a podcast with former fellow Obama deputies. Rice’s comments surfaced the same day Graham, a South Carolina Republican, defended president Trump’s claim that the House’s impeachment inquiry was “a lynching.” In extended comments, Graham …
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WASHINGTON —The scandal-ridden campaign led by Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani to convince the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden, a scheme that triggered a full-blown impeachment investigation of the president, just took its strangest twist yet. And it’s about to make Trump and Giuliani’s lives even more miserable. Two businessmen …
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It’s finally happening: House Democrats are opening a full-blown impeachment investigation into President Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the news Tuesday afternoon following a busy day of speculation. “The President must be held accountable,” she said during a brief statement in front of a wall of American flags. “No …
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This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Here’s a reckless prediction: a decade or so from now, when the climate revolution is fully underway and Miami Beach real estate prices are in free-fall …
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