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President Trump believes the chances that witnesses will be called at his impeachment trial in the Senate have grown, even as advisers believed they might be able to allay concerns from senators after reports about assertions made by his former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, in an unpublished manuscript. According to several people who […]

For the third time in American history, the Senate has convened as a court of impeachment to consider whether to remove a sitting president, and two teams of lawyers are facing off in a confrontation with heavy political and constitutional consequences. The seven House Democratic impeachment managers, handpicked by Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, have

Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, the head of the military’s Africa Command, or Africom, is expected to face tough questioning on Thursday, when he is scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Any drawdown of our troops would be shortsighted, could cripple Africom’s ability to execute its mission and, as a result, would harm

In a statement, Mr. Buttigieg, 38, who recently finished his second term as mayor of South Bend, Ind., nodded to those challenges and struck a progressive tone in emphasizing the importance of supporting his staff. “We’re proud of the staffers who stood up and made their voices heard to help our campaign improve and be

Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald has called the government’s plan to reopen parts of the railway network closed under the Beeching cuts “disingenuous”. He said the launch of a £500m fund – promised in the Conservative manifesto – was a “rehash” that would have little impact on the experience of passengers. “To herald it as

Welcome to On Politics, a daily political analysis of the 2020 elections, based on reporting by Times journalists. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Where things stand in the race The Democratic competition in Iowa has returned to a state of semi-suspended animation now that Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said re-opening old rail lines, which were closed under the so-called Beeching cuts, can reach “millions” of people in the UK. When questioned on whether this was a “distraction” for the problems engulfing Northern Rail, Mr Shapps said he would make a statement on Northern by the end of the

Closing out a long day, Alan Dershowitz, perhaps the Trump team’s best-known lawyer, said House managers had resorted to “politically loaded and promiscuously deployed” charges to cast President Trump’s conduct as impeachable. He insisted that the House managers tried to substitute “psychoanalysis” for concrete evidence against the president, deciding that Mr. Trump was “only interested

Closing out a long day, Alan Dershowitz, perhaps the Trump team’s best-known lawyer, said House managers had resorted to “politically loaded and promiscuously deployed” charges to cast President Trump’s conduct as impeachable. He insisted that the House managers tried to substitute “psychoanalysis” for concrete evidence against the president, deciding that Mr. Trump was “only interested

WASHINGTON — Representative Doug Collins, one of the faces of President Trump’s impeachment defense, plans to challenge Senator Kelly Loeffler in this fall’s special election for one of Georgia’s Senate seats, people familiar with his intentions said on Monday. Mr. Collins’s long-expected decision sets the stage for a brutal Republican-on-Republican fight that will put a