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After 93 questions over eight hours, the Senate has adjourned. The trial resumes Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. Eastern and senators will continue to lob queries at the Democratic impeachment managers and the president’s defense team. A vote on witnesses is expected on Friday. Claire McCaskill lost her bid for re-election in 2018.Credit…Jeff Roberson/Associated Press […]

After 93 questions over eight hours, the Senate has adjourned. The trial resumes Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. Eastern and senators will continue to lob queries at the Democratic impeachment managers and the president’s defense team. A vote on witnesses is expected on Friday. Claire McCaskill lost her bid for re-election in 2018.Credit…Jeff Roberson/Associated Press

Claire McCaskill lost her bid for re-election in 2018.Credit…Jeff Roberson/Associated Press Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri stood up, as his colleagues had, to ask a question. But in rattling off the senators he was teaming up with for the question, he misspoke: Instead of naming Senator Martha McSally, a freshman Republican from Arizona, he

Mitt Romney, a Republican, asked what day Mr. Trump first ordered the hold on aid, and what the reason was. Mr. Philbin said the exact date was unclear, but that July 3 was when officials knew about it. At what point did Mr. Trump decide that Ukraine needed to investigate Joe Biden and his son

DES MOINES — A Democratic super PAC wanted to undermine Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential candidacy just days before the Iowa caucuses. It may have handed him a gift instead. Mr. Sanders’s campaign said on Wednesday that it had raised more than $1.3 million since it began fund-raising the day before off a negative ad produced

Ms. Feinstein asked, “Is that true?” It was a softball, but a strategic one. “There is in fact overwhelming evidence that the president withheld the military aid directly to get a personal political benefit to help his individual political campaign,” said Representative Jason Crow of Colorado, one of the House managers. Throughout the day, Democrats

The trial broke for a 15-minute recess at 9:44 p.m. Eastern. When they return, senators are expected to ask questions for about another hour. Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, the only Republican whose public remarks have suggested he is seriously considering whether to vote to convict President Trump, asked a question that gave insight into

Since the October debate, when Ms. Warren’s rivals attacked her policy vision, arguing that she had not adequately explained her health care proposals and that “big, structural change” was too politically risky, her campaign has yet to fully recover. And quietly, a campaign that has made few drastic changes over the course of a year

WASHINGTON — In the end, the impeachment calculation nearly all Senate Republicans are making is fairly simple: They would rather look like they ignored relevant evidence than plunge the Senate into an unpredictable, open-ended inquiry that would anger President Trump and court political peril. As Republicans on Wednesday lined up behind blocking witnesses in the

DES MOINES — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., after coming under assault at the impeachment trial, plans on Thursday to offer a forceful rebuke of President Trump that will double as a closing message ahead of the Iowa caucuses on Monday. Mr. Biden, who faces a close and fluid race in the leadoff