January 2020

Pelosi Alerts House to Be Ready to Send Impeachment Articles Next Week

WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi alerted lawmakers on Friday that she would move next week to transmit to the Senate articles of impeachment against President Trump. In a letter to colleagues Friday morning, the speaker appeared to be moving to end a weekslong impasse over the impeachment process. She did not announce the members of

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Friend Says Prince Harry And Meghan Markle’s ‘Toxic’ Situation ‘Might Get Worse’

Tom Bradby, an ITV news anchor and close friend of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, says that the two are being “driven out” by the royal family.  During an ITV broadcast on Thursday, the reporter said that “there have been a lot of fallouts” between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the royals. He added that

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Australia fires: Vineyard owner’s grief and determination

Image copyright James Tilbrook Image caption James Tilbrook says his losses may run into hundreds of thousands of dollars Australia’s deadly wildfires have devastated huge swathes of territory and left thousands homeless. Many businesses have also been destroyed, among them vineyards which have taken generations to grow, as the BBC’s Peter Hoskins writes. “It’s a

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Economy in a Nutshell: Manufacturing in Recession. Services Booming.

Sometimes, the monthly employment numbers seem to come out of left field, and don’t really align with all the other evidence about how the economy is evolving. December is not one of those months. To the contrary, pretty much everything in the latest numbers released Friday fits the broader story. It’s a mostly benign picture,

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