Month: January 2020

The new resolution agreed to Friday in the Senate impeachment trial gives Democratic senators running for president a much needed opportunity to hit the campaign trail between stints back in Washington as jurors. For starters, they’re getting the weekend off — an unexpected boon since the trial otherwise would have convened on Saturday. “I’m on

Leaders of the US Senate struck an agreement to hold the final vote on whether to acquit President Donald Trump on the two articles of impeachment on Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled a resolution for the next steps in the impeachment trial on Friday evening. Read that resolution below:

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are at the front of the field for the Democratic national primary, according to a new CNN Poll of Polls released Friday morning. Biden and Sanders formed a top tier with no clear leader indicated: the former vice president averages 27% support among registered Democrats

Andrew Yang choked up Thursday night as he reflected on the trajectory of his upstart presidential campaign during a speech in Dubuque, Iowa. “I’ve been coming to Iowa for almost two years,” said Yang, who entered the presidential race to no fanfare but has since gained a loyal following. “I love Iowa,” he said. “Campaigning

Republican hopes of blocking former national security adviser John Bolton’s impeachment testimony highlight the Trump-era GOP’s defining characteristic: its refusal to defy the President under almost any circumstances. President Donald Trump’s vituperative attacks, regularly trained on critics through his vast social media following, make every Republican politician wary of crossing him. But that represents the

Sen. Lamar Alexander, a retiring Tennessee Republican, said in a statement late Thursday night that he would vote against a motion to hear additional witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Read the full statement here: “I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to ask for more

Sen. Rand Paul attempted to ask a question Thursday at the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump that named the alleged Ukraine whistleblower. Paul was rebuffed by Chief Justice John Roberts, and shortly thereafter left the Senate chamber. Paul, a Republican of Kentucky, was not seen reacting to Roberts or leaving the floor on

The Virginia House of Delegates passed seven pieces of gun safety legislation on Thursday, signaling its dedication to the gun control priorities it set heading into the 2020 legislative session. House Majority Leader Charniele Herring, a Democrat, hailed the vote in a release as an “answer” to “the majority of Virginians who called for gun

The former Trump campaign adviser whose ties to Russia were at the heart of the investigation into that country’s interference in the 2016 US election is suing the Democratic National Committee and a prominent law firm that had dug up some of the allegations against him. Carter Page, a businessmen who served on President Donald

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

An internal Customs and Border Protection memo obtained by CNN suggests that US border officers working at Canadian ports of entry were directed to detain and question travelers of Iranian descent, including American citizens, in the wake of the killing of a top Iranian general in early January, despite previous denials from the agency. The

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

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders‘ odds of winning the Iowa caucuses have been rising over the last month. Even the worst polls for Sanders have him close to the top. Yet some data suggests some potential weaknesses in Sanders’ armor, given how caucuses differ from primaries. A new Monmouth University poll, for example, has Sanders (21%)

In a sign of their importance, Senate Republicans gave the opening question on Wednesday to Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah, three Republicans who hinted they could vote to hear from witnesses. But everybody’s talking about the lawmaker who stayed quiet, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. The senator

Sen. Bernie Sanders has instructed his team of campaign advisers to draw up a list of executive actions he can take immediately upon entering the White House as he embarks on what would be a challenging effort to enact his ambitious agenda. The slate of potential day one directives encompasses a range of campaign promises,

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

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg released on Thursday the one-minute ad he’ll air during next week’s Super Bowl that highlights his years-long fight for tighter gun control measures. “I chose to devote the entire sixty-second ad to gun safety because it matters to communities across the country and it will be a top priority