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WASHINGTON — The Chinese government denounced on Monday the United States’ secret expulsion this fall of two Chinese diplomats suspected of espionage, and asked for a reversal of the action. The expulsions appeared to be the first of Chinese diplomats suspected of spying in more than three decades. The two men were detained with their […]

A veteran political reporter who covered the Clinton impeachment offered me some good advice this afternoon: “Don’t predict impeachment politics.” It’s something to keep in mind as we head into this highly consequential week. Political prognosticators, like yours truly, have been telling Americans for months that the outcome for President Trump is all but preordained:

WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani said on Monday that he provided President Trump with detailed information this year about how the United States ambassador to Ukraine was, in Mr. Giuliani’s view, impeding investigations that could benefit Mr. Trump, setting in motion the ambassador’s recall from her post. In an interview, Mr. Giuliani, the president’s personal

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday rebuffed accusations by President Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, that F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors engaged in misconduct in his criminal case, delivering a comprehensive rebuke to his 11th-hour claims. The 92-page ruling by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan also effectively ended Mr. Flynn’s hopes that

This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weeknight. What happened today A string of moderate House Democrats — including Representatives Elissa Slotkin, Joe Cunningham, Ben McAdams, Jason Crow, Andy Kim and Abigail Spanberger — announced their plans to support impeachment.

Together, Mr. Royce, then the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Mr. Engel invited Caesar to testify before the committee in 2014 and wrote the Caesar bill. They did so over the objections of the Obama administration, which had argued that imposing sanctions on Syria would endanger its diplomatic outreach. “They wanted him

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Monday unveiled a dozen bills that would allocate $1.4 trillion in federal spending for the remainder of the fiscal year to prevent the government from shutting down at midnight on Friday. The legislation, divided into two packages, provides funding for all federal agencies and departments and for extending a number of

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Last month, after polls showed Pete Buttigieg vaulting unexpectedly to the lead in Iowa’s Democratic caucus, he aired an ad introducing his plan for higher-education reform: a proposal to make public-college tuition free for households earning up to $100,000 a year and reduce it on a sliding scale for those making up to $150,000. “Some

Carly Fiorina, the former Republican presidential candidate and chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard, said Monday that she believed it was “vital” that President Trump be impeached, but left open the possibility of voting for him in the fall of 2020. In an interview that aired Monday on CNN’s “Boss Files with Poppy Harlow,” Ms. Fiorina called Mr.