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Senators to Debate Calling Additional Witnesses

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 […]

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Senators to Debate Calling Additional Witnesses

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

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John Delaney Ends Presidential Campaign After Two and a Half Years

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

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Alexander Says Democrats Proved Their Case, But It’s Not Impeachable

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

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