2020

Trump Team, Opening Defense, Accuses Democrats of Plot to Subvert Election

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s legal defense team mounted an aggressive offense on Saturday as it opened its side in the Senate impeachment trial by attacking his Democratic accusers as partisan witch-hunters trying to remove him because they could not beat him at the ballot box. After three days of arguments by the House managers prosecuting

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Gene Corrigan, ex-ACC commissioner and NCAA head, dies at 91

Former Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner and NCAA President Gene Corrigan has died January 25, 2020, 6:11 PM 2 min read GREENSBORO, N.C. — Former Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner and NCAA President Gene Corrigan has died. He was 91. The league said Saturday he died “peacefully overnight surrounded by his family” in Charlottesville, Virginia. Corrigan was

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Lamar Alexander, Set to Leave Office, Is G.O.P. Wild Card on Witnesses

WASHINGTON — The ghost of Howard H. Baker Jr., the Republican senator from Tennessee who turned against Richard M. Nixon during Watergate, is hovering over Senator Lamar Alexander. Mr. Alexander, a third-term Republican from Tennessee who is retiring at the end of this year, has said that no one outside his family has had more

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Pompeo Lashes Out at Reporter and Challenges Her to Find Ukraine on a Map

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, apparently angered by a reporter’s questions about the Trump administration’s firing of the United States ambassador to Ukraine, lashed out at her after the interview, cursing and challenging her to find Ukraine on a map, according to the reporter. Mr. Pompeo, who is known for his bombast, occasional thin skin

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