Politics

WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats clashed fiercely on Wednesday as the House of Representatives barreled toward a historic vote to impeach President Trump, debating a pair of charges that would make him the third president in history to face removal by the Senate for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The epic debate on the House floor […]

Mr. Biden is hardly the only candidate to talk about his political strengths, in a campaign in which Democrats are fixated on the question of how best to defeat Mr. Trump. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota invokes her electoral success in competitive political territory. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., plays up his roots

WASHINGTON — Hours before she announced the House would investigate whether to impeach President Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi received a call from him at her Washington home, ostensibly to talk about gun violence. But he quickly changed the topic to Ukraine. “He kept saying, ‘The call was perfect. When you see the notes, you’ll see

Nor is she concerned about polls showing public support for impeachment and her own approval ratings dropping. “My numbers are better than Trump’s,” she shot back. “So if I’m not doing well, he’s doing worse.” (In a poll published Tuesday, CNN found that Mr. Trump’s job approval rating was 43 percent, while Ms. Pelosi’s was

The federal government is entitled to the former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden’s proceeds from his new memoir and from several of his paid speeches because he did not submit the material, which referenced intelligence activities, to federal agencies in advance, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Liam O’Grady of the United States District Court in

WASHINGTON — As the House of Representatives began debating Wednesday whether to impeach President Trump for undercutting Ukraine in its fight with Russian aggressors, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee met in a small room in the Capitol to consider a bill that has been bubbling along all year with bipartisan support: S. 482, the “Defending

WASHINGTON — Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said on Wednesday that she would seek a fifth term in the Senate, formally entering what is expected to be her most challenging and expensive race on the day President Trump is expected to be impeached. Her decision to seek re-election is not unexpected, but as one of

A new group founded by three former Fox News employees is sending a letter to all presidential campaigns on Wednesday asking them to publicly condemn nondisclosure agreements that deal with workplace environment issues. The group, called Lift Our Voices, was formed by Gretchen Carlson, Julie Roginsky and Diana Falzone. All three women a few years

“Impeachment by its nature, it’s a political process.” “What people think is going to happen can turn out to be very different from what happens.” “Because it has to do with elected officials holding another elected official to account for their conduct.” When the framers of the Constitution created a process to remove a president

Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “seriously considering” running to be Labour leader. He also reflected on the party’s election defeat, pointing to Boris Johnson’s slogan “Get Brexit done”. Sir Keir said: “We did not knock it down and neutralise it hard enough.” He added that “the strategists decided that it