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Biden Dismisses Doubts on His Black Support: ‘You Know Better. You Know Better.’

DES MOINES — Joseph R. Biden Jr. was fresh off campaigning in the warm embrace of South Carolina, where the former vice president has held a commanding lead in the polls, when a pointed question in icy, politically competitive Iowa put him on the defensive. “Why is Senator Sanders leading you with black voters under

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A Challenge for the Trial: 100 Senators Who Love to Talk, Sitting in Silence

“My staff would probably say it’d be a record for me,” Mr. Roberts added. (Mr. Wyden, for his part, said he remembered some breaks for conversations and the ability to convey messages to the chief justice overseeing the proceedings.) “You couldn’t talk to each other; you knew that you didn’t drink a cup of coffee

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McConnell Impeachment Rules Modify Clinton Precedent

As McConnell said, the resolution does not guarantee the trial will include witnesses. As expected, the draft resolution does not incorporate Democratic demands that the trial guarantee witness testimony or requests for new documents. This was also the case in the Clinton trial, but Mr. McConnell’s proposal still differs slightly. It says that after senators

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Trump to Focus on Economy at Davos, Seeking a Counter to Impeachment

DAVOS, Switzerland — Before the Senate impeachment trial begins in earnest on Tuesday, President Trump was more than 4,000 miles away from Washington, in this glitzy Alpine village, planning to drive a competing narrative — one that has nothing to do with pressure on Ukraine, abuse of power or obstruction of Congress. In his first

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Sanders Apologizes to Biden for Surrogate’s Critique

Senator Bernie Sanders apologized to Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday after a Sanders campaign surrogate wrote an opinion article accusing the former vice president of having “a big corruption problem.” Mr. Sanders distanced himself from the piece by Zephyr Teachout, an associate professor at Fordham Law School, former New York political candidate and longtime

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Lev Parnas Asks Barr to Recuse Himself From Criminal Case

Lawyers for Lev Parnas, the Soviet-born businessman who was involved in the campaign to pressure Ukraine to investigate political rivals of President Trump, asked on Monday that Attorney General William P. Barr disqualify himself from overseeing his criminal case because he has too many conflicts of interest. Mr. Parnas, who was charged in October in

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McConnell Impeachment Rules Modify Clinton Precedent

As McConnell said, the resolution does not guarantee the trial will include witnesses. As expected, the draft resolution does not incorporate Democratic demands that the trial guarantee witness testimony or requests for new documents. This was also the case in the Clinton trial, but Mr. McConnell’s proposal still differs slightly. It says that after senators

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