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After a monthlong delay, the House is expected to vote on Wednesday to send two articles of impeachment to the Senate, setting in motion only the third presidential impeachment trial in American history. The day will be filled with pomp and circumstance, including a vote on the House floor, a formal “engrossment” ceremony of the […]

It should have been the moment for Mr. Biden to shine: A former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was among the most experienced in the Obama Situation Room during debates over increasing troop levels in Afghanistan and secretly carrying out cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities. He had a moment to look decisive,

The president, however, put forth his trade policies as reasons to support him. “What we’ve done with China, what we’ve done with the U.S.M.C.A., what we’ve done with Japan,” he said. “You’ve got to love Trump. You’ve got to love Trump.” Meantime, Democrats signaled that they would invest heavily to win back the state. “Wisconsin

But Ms. Collins has suggested all along that she will do just that. “I tend to like information,” she said on Monday, adding that she would not be pushing for the option to call witnesses “if I did not anticipate at the end of hearing the case presented, and the Q. and A., that there

DES MOINES — The Democratic presidential candidates clashed in starkly personal terms Tuesday over who had the best chance to defeat President Trump, as Senator Elizabeth Warren sought to jump-start her campaign in the last debate before the Iowa caucuses by highlighting her electoral success and that of other female candidates in the Trump era.

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn moved late on Tuesday to withdraw his guilty plea on charges of lying to investigators in the Russia inquiry, accusing prosecutors of “bad faith” and vindictiveness after they asked a judge to sentence him to prison for backing out of a deal to cooperate

BERNIE SANDERS: Well, as a matter of fact, I didn’t say it. And I don’t want to waste a whole lot of time on this, because this is what Donald Trump and maybe some of the media want. Anybody knows me knows that it’s incomprehensible that I would think that a woman cannot be president

Six of the candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination took the stage Tuesday night in Des Moines for their last debate before the Iowa caucuses kick off the primary season in less than three weeks. Here is how the candidates’ remarks stacked up against the truth. WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT Former Vice President

President Trump’s advisers see Senator Bernie Sanders as their ideal Democratic opponent in November and have been doing what they can to elevate his profile and bolster his chances of winning the Iowa caucuses, according to Republicans familiar with the plans. But their new focus on Mr. Sanders, independent of Vermont, comes at a time

WASHINGTON — The trade deal that President Trump will sign on Wednesday includes commitments by China to curtail practices that American firms complain put them at a disadvantage and force them to hand over valuable intellectual property to Chinese firms, according to several people with knowledge of the deal. Those concessions, along with China’s agreement