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Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, arriving at the Capitol on Friday.Credit…Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times Nearly all Republican senators are expected to oppose hearing from new witnesses like John R. Bolton, the president’s former national security adviser. And they see plenty of reasons to do so. A vote to summon witnesses for the Senate […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kyiv on Friday.Credit…Pool photo by Kevin Lamarque KYIV, Ukraine — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that the Trump administration was committed to supporting Ukraine in its defense against aggression by Russia, though he did not offer President Volodymyr Zelensky

DES MOINES — John Delaney ran one of the longest presidential campaigns in American history, but it’s over now. Mr. Delaney dropped out of the Democratic race on Friday, just three days before the Iowa caucuses, ending a two-and-a-half-year marathon that has spanned almost the entirety of the Trump presidency. Anthony Scaramucci was working in

On their last day of questioning in the impeachment trial of President Trump, senators put Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in the middle of the fray.Credit…Image by Doug Mills/The New York Times The vote on Friday on whether to call witnesses like John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, is likely to determine

Good morning and welcome to On Politics, a daily political analysis of the 2020 elections based on reporting by New York Times journalists. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Where things stand in the race It took a while, but on Thursday Joe Biden — who’s been running for

Ukrainian officials are eager to have Mr. Zelensky visit Mr. Trump in the Oval Office and to have the American president publicly and strongly affirm support for Ukraine. Ukrainian officials are angry that the Americans have granted the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, two visits with Mr. Trump in White House, most recently in

Senator Lamar Alexander this week at the Capitol. He was one of four Republicans considered critical to the question of whether to call witnesses.Credit…Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, said late Thursday that although he believed that Democrats have proved their case that President Trump had acted “inappropriately” in his

This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weeknight. What happened today The fate of President Trump’s impeachment trial is likely sealed. Late Thursday, Senator Lamar Alexander, seen as the deciding vote on whether new witnesses would be heard in the

By the same token, Mr. Trump has not been shy about heaping scorn upon Mr. Romney. It has created a situation in which some of Mr. Romney’s colleagues have taken their own shots at him, no doubt as a way to prove allegiance to their audience of one in the White House. Senator David Perdue,

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, paid tribute to the UK’s contribution to the European Union ahead of the country’s departure. Speaking to the BBC’s Europe editor Katya Adler, von der Leyen said upcoming negotiations will be “fair” but each side will fight for their interests. Read more: PM to hail