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Many Republicans moved quickly on Tuesday to adopt Mr. Dershowitz’s arguments that abuse of power and obstruction of Congress were not impeachable offenses. The argument cut against the legal consensus, and against Mr. Dershowitz’s own earlier views, that impeachable offenses need not be crimes. “I listened to Ken Starr and Dershowitz loud and clear yesterday,” […]

It has a brilliant twist: The Palestinians do not have to say yes or no for four years. That means their bottom-line response would not come until the very end of Mr. Trump’s next term, if he is re-elected. In the meantime, Israel would freeze settlements in the territory that Mr. Trump has set aside

WASHINGTON — It was late 2018, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey was on the phone with an unusual request for President Trump: Could he intervene with top members of his cabinet to curb or even shut down a criminal investigation into Halkbank, one of Turkey’s largest state-owned banks? It was not Mr. Erdogan’s

Fans follow the ups and downs of the dogs’ lives, learning of their hopes and passions, including those that have to do with peanut butter. In October, the subject was Buddy’s Halloween costume, a shiny green-and-yellow outfit, the meaning of which was unclear at first. “OMG GOT MY HALOSWEEN COSTUM,” the dog (or someone in

“We have a small lead in Iowa heading into Monday’s caucus,” Mr. Shakir wrote. “But outside groups are on the attack and hoping to stop us. Bernie needs us all if we’re going to fight back and win.” Past attacks have boomeranged to Mr. Sanders’s advantage. When Hillary Clinton ripped into Mr. Sanders in an

WILDWOOD, N.J. — Joe Tartamosa’s second daybreak in an ever-growing line outside the convention center in Wildwood was a lot less pleasant than his first. “It was brutal,” said Mr. Tartamosa, who spent the night in the cold, wind-whipped line with thousands of other ticket holders who were hoping to get inside for President Trump’s

As pressure intensifies on Republicans, the Trump team will argue against hearing new witnesses. As more details surfaced from a manuscript by John R. Bolton, the president’s former national security adviser, Republicans began the day in damage-control mode with just hours left for President Trump’s defense lawyers to make their case. New details about Mr.

WASHINGTON — President Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace plan with a flourish on Tuesday, outlining a proposal that would give Israel most of what it has sought over decades of conflict while creating what he called a Palestinian state with limited sovereignty. Mr. Trump’s plan would guarantee that Israel would control a unified

MUSCATINE, Iowa — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Tuesday seized on comments by Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, suggesting that the White House’s arguments at the impeachment trial could hurt his political fortunes. At the impeachment trial on Monday, President Trump’s legal team spent time walking through Mr. Biden’s son Hunter’s

Dominic Raab has defended the decision of the government to allow Huawei’s technology to play a part in the UK’s future 5G mobile networks. Making a statement in the Commons, the foreign secretary said “risk cannot be eliminated in telecoms”. But he added that it was “the job of government, Ofcom and industry to work