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Pelosi addresses the idea of testimony from Lev Parnas. During her weekly news conference, Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized Senate Republicans and the Trump administration for their handling of the impeachment trial.Image by Erin Schaff/The New York Times Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Lev Parnas, the Soviet-born businessman who says President Trump was fully aware […]

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration violated the law in withholding security assistance aid to Ukraine, a nonpartisan federal watchdog agency said on Thursday, weighing in on a decision by President Trump that is at the heart of the impeachment case against him. The Government Accountability Office said the White House’s Office of Management and Budget

Thursday will be the beginning of a new phase in the impeachment process as the Senate lays the procedural groundwork for the trial of President Trump, only the third such proceeding in American history. The House voted on Wednesday to send the two articles of impeachment to the Senate, naming seven impeachment managers, who marched

The police in Ukraine have opened a criminal investigation into whether allies of President Trump had the United States ambassador to the country under surveillance while she was stationed in Kyiv, the Ukrainian government said on Thursday. Democrats in the House of Representative on Tuesday revealed evidence pointing to surveillance of the ambassador, Marie L.

Harold Hamm, the billionaire oilman and shale pioneer, was also praised by the president. “Harold Hamm. He puts a straw into the ground and oil pours out.” “He’s been with me from the beginning,” Mr. Trump said. Chuffed by his success with China, Mr. Trump teased Nelson Peltz, the activist investor, about his investment in

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to transmit two articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate, sending the president and his party into uncharted territory in a deeply divisive trial fraught with history and political risk. In a choreographed ritual, the House formally appointed seven Democrats to serve as impeachment

Thursday will be the beginning of a new phase in the impeachment process, as the Senate lays the procedural groundwork for the trial of President Trump, only the third such proceeding in American history. The House voted on Wednesday to send the two articles of impeachment to the Senate, naming seven impeachment managers, who marched

First, the deal calls for China to begin purchasing what the administration says will be $200 billion worth of American crops and other exported goods and services. Those purchases should increase exports from the United States to China, which, all else being equal, would promote growth. Second, and perhaps more important, administration officials appear to

And on Wednesday, it fell to Mr. Nadler, who earned his law degree by attending evening courses while serving in the New York State Assembly, to oversee Wednesday’s debate on the resolution that formally approved the impeachment managers, allowing the articles of impeachment to be sent to the Senate. Behind him sat Ms. Pelosi, Mr.

WASHINGTON — Representative Sylvia R. Garcia, a freshman Democrat who was named Wednesday as a House impeachment manager, made history last year when she was sworn in as one of the first two Latina congresswomen from Texas. A lawyer and former judge, she has an up-from-the-bootstraps personal story. Born in a South Texas farming community,