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US First Lady jeered at Baltimore youth event
BALTIMORE: Melania Trump was widely booed when she took the stage at a youth event in Baltimore yesterday, an unusually hostile reception for a US first lady. The sustained boos, which bookended her remarks and were interrupted by some cheers,
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Pelosi: Trump has admitted to bribery as impeachment probe intensifies
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday President Donald Trump already has admitted to bribery in the Ukraine scandal at the heart of a Democratic-led inquiry, accusing him of an impeachable offense under the US Constitution. “The bribe is
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Democrats vow to insulate impeachment inquiry from ‘sham investigations’
WASHINGTON: The impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump will not be allowed to become a venue for “sham investigations” into Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son, the head of a congressional committee leading the probe said yesterday.
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Democrats release new batch of testimony from Trump impeachment inquiry
A senior Pentagon official detailed confusion and concern in the US national security apparatus after the White House blocked aid to Ukraine without explanation, according to a testimony released yesterday by the congressional impeachment panel into US President Donald Trump.
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In Trump’s shadow, Republicans slowly losing suburban support
The last time Democrats controlled the government in Delaware County, a suburb of Philadelphia, the US Civil War had just ended. But on Tuesday, Democrats ended a century and a half of Republican dominance. In two other Philadelphia-area suburbs, they
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Whistleblower offers Republicans testimony as Trump pushes to unmask
WASHINGTON: The US official whose whistleblower complaint led to the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump offered to communicate directly with Republicans on the intelligence committee leading the inquiry, his lawyers said yesterday. The action was in response to Republican
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Trump impeachment effort passes first test in divided US Congress
A deeply divided US House of Representatives took a major step yesterday in the effort to impeach President Donald Trump when lawmakers approved rules for the next, more public, stage in the Democratic-led inquiry into Trump’s attempt to have Ukraine
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Republican lawmakers storm and disrupt Trump impeachment inquiry
Republican lawmakers, encouraged by President Donald Trump to get tougher in fighting Democrats’ attempts to impeach him, disrupted the US House of Representatives impeachment inquiry yesterday and prevented a Pentagon official from testifying. The Republicans stormed into a hearing room
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One person missing in Democrats’ impeachment inquiry: the whistleblower
WASHINGTON: Democratic lawmakers leading an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump have heard days of testimony from a parade of senior government officials. But they have yet to hear from the whistleblower who sparked the probe – and may never
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Under pressure, Trump tells Erdogan to stop Syria invasion
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday demanded Turkey stop its military incursion in Syria and imposed new sanctions on the NATO ally, as Trump scrambled to limit the damage from his much criticised decision to clear US troops from Turkey’s
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