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(CNN) — The Senate on Friday voted to block any witnesses from being called in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, a move that marked the beginning of the end of the third Senate trial for a president in US history. Senate leaders struck an agreement to hold the final vote to acquit Trump on the […]
WASHINGTON — Two key swing votes in President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial will not support a vote for witnesses, which will happen today. In a statement, Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander said House Democrats have already established Trump acted inappropriately, and additional evidence isn’t necessary. But he said impeachment isn’t the proper remedy. He argued that the American voters […]
WASHINGTON — The United States reported its first confirmed case of person-to-person spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Thursday. This is the second confirmed case of the virus in Illinois. This second person is a Chicago resident and the spouse of the first confirmed travel-associated case […]
WASHINGTON — Senators’ questions in President Trump’s impeachment trial will resume this afternoon. During the first-of-two days of questioning yesterday, Trump lawyers argued that House Democrats want to overturn the results of the 2016 election. Congressman Adam Schiff said Trump tried to cheat to help him win re-election. The California Democrat defended the House impeachment and called Trump […]
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has conceded to Senate Democrats demands that witnesses be heard in the impeachment trial of President Trump. Senators have been sitting through hours upon hours of opening testimony from House impeachment managers and the president’s defense team in the Senate chamber over the last week and a […]
NEW YORK — Several more witnesses are expected to take the stand this week in the Harvey Weinstein sex crimes trial in Lower Manhattan. Two women who accuse Weinstein of wrongdoing are expected to detail their encounters with the once-powerful Hollywood producer. Then, one of the major accusers in the case who claims Weinstein […]
(CNN) — There are at least five confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus in the US, a number the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts will continue to climb. The novel coronavirus, which has sickened thousands and killed at least 80 people in China, belongs to a large family of viruses that mostly sicken animals. But […]
WASHINGTON — The Democrat managers of the House impeachment effort are renewing their calls for John Bolton to testify after a new report on what he knows about the Ukraine scandal. The New York Times reported that in his forthcoming book, the former National Security Adviser writes that President Trump told him that he’d continue […]
DES MOINES — The Pentagon has confirmed that rockets fired by Iranian based militias in Iraq hit the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Sunday night. The rocket attacks come just weeks after the embassy was nearly overrun by Iraqi protesters against the presence of American troops in the Middle East and subsequent missile attacks by […]
(CNN) — Basketball legend Kobe Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, died Sunday morning in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, sources confirm to CNN. Nine people were killed the crash on a hillside in Calabasas, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. There were no survivors, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said. The sheriff’s department received […]