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For the past two months, television ads across central Virginia have sounded a lot like President Trump’s Twitter feed. “A rigged process. A sham impeachment. No quid pro quo. But Pelosi’s witch hunt continues,” an ad from the Republican super PAC America First Policies cried, as images of Abigail Spanberger, who represents the region in

Justice Department lawyers who deal directly with the FISA court passed that misleading portrait onto the judges. While Mr. Horowitz’s findings placed most of the direct blame on a handful of case agents and their supervisors who worked directly with the raw evidence, his report also said senior officials bore responsibility for permitting systemic failures

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday angrily denounced the looming House vote to impeach him as a “partisan impeachment crusade” being waged by Democrats, describing the effort to remove him from office as an “attempted coup” that would come back to haunt them at the ballot box next year. As the House moved toward votes

Former MP Mary Creagh has said she confronted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in Portcullis House after seeing him pose for photos with young people. Ms Creagh lost her long-held Labour seat of Wakefield in the 2019 general election. She told the BBC: “I saw Jeremy taking selfies with these young people, and I thought rather

“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

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to pass a bipartisan $738 billion defense policy bill, sending President Trump one of the most expensive military measures in the nation’s history and one that he has championed as a critical priority. The vote was 86-8 to clear the measure, which authorizes a 3 percent pay

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has congratulated Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the Conservatives’ election victory, as MPs returned to the House of Commons. He paid tribute to Labour MPs who lost their seats, especially Dennis Skinner, who had been Bolsover’s MP since 1970 and was set to be the longest-serving MP. Mr Corbyn also said

WASHINGTON — After helping bring down two former advisers to President Trump, the former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates is scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday morning for his part in a criminal financial scheme and for lying to federal investigators. Mr. Gates, 47, is hoping that he will be spared a prison term because

LOS ANGELES — It’s a labor dispute that had drawn little notice, affecting about 150 workers and featuring only a handful of picket lines. Yet in the heated political atmosphere surrounding the Democratic presidential contest, the impasse is now drawing outsized attention as it threatens to upend a nationally televised debate. While few expect the