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 House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn, claimed on Tuesday evening that "80-90 percent" of the fellow Democrats who sit on committee are ready to impeach President Trump.
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Johnny DeStefano, a counselor to the president, and Shahira Knight, the White House legislative affairs director, announced their departures.
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American officials said Iran had threatened to target missiles at Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure to drive up oil prices and disrupt international trade.
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The PM wants MPs them to vote on what she says is a "new" Brexit deal - but what exactly has changed?
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 Calls for President Trump's impeachment, including most recently from a Republican congressman, will find "no appetite in the United States Senate," according to Senate Republican Conference chairman John Barrasso.
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 A U.S. House committee chairman on Tuesday subpoenaed two more former White House aides, including Hope Hicks, just hours after former White House Counsel Donald McGahn was a no-show for testimony before the panel at President Donald Trump's request.
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 Just hours after former White House Counsel Don McGahn defied a subpoena from House Judiciary Committee Democrats, the panel announced Tuesday it was issuing two new subpoenas: one for former McGahn chief of staff Annie Donaldson, and another for former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks.
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 President Trump on Tuesday announced his intention to nominate Barbara Barrett, a former chairwoman of the nonprofit Aerospace Corporation and an Arizona business executive, to be the next secretary of the Air Force.
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The plan, including the idea of a temporary customs relationship, is aimed at winning over Labour MPs.
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 President Trump-backed Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has cleared his first hurdle toward a second term, defeating three challengers to win the Republican nomination.
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 Top officials in the Trump administration were dispatched to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to brief lawmakers about escalating tensions with Iran, saying afterward they are focused on trying to deter attacks and avoid war.
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he hoped Congress could reach by the end of the day a two-year agreement on federal spending limits that would also increase the nation's debt ceiling.
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Some Trump allies have not forgotten the former Virginia attorney general's memorable 2016 GOP convention protest.
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 The news Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller's team isn't sure whether he should testify in front of Congress about his nearly two-year long investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 election is a very big deal.
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 House Armed Services Committee member Michael Waltz, R-Fla., said Tuesday that the Trump administration has told Iran that it will hold the country responsible for any attacks by proxies and that the United States is hoping to "deter war by showing strength."
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 Comedy Central"If you've ever worried you're not good at your job," Trevor Noah said on Tuesday night's Daily Show, "you can rest assured that there's someone even worse at his."
Of course, the host was talking about Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who fully embarrassed himself in a congressional hearing earlier in the day when Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) asked him if he knew what an "REO" stands for.
"Oreo?" Carson asked.
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 Former Vice President Joe Biden was a "walking time bomb" who, because of his age and history of gaffes, likely wouldn't make it to the general election.
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U.S. Democratic Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez said on Tuesday it is time for Democratic leaders to allow an impeachment process to start against President Donald Trump, saying the administration's obstruction of lawmakers' oversight efforts gives them no choice.
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Trump's new adviser on immigration rails against illegal immigrants, gays and Obamacare
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HUD secretary is grilled during a three-hour hearing before the House Financial Services Committee.
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 The current Iranian government is an "outlaw regime" that has been waging "a low-level war against the United States for decades," and President Trump is making the right moves to deter Tehran from taking direct military action against the United States.
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Tuesday appeared to think that a freshman Democrat was questioning him about Oreo cookies during his congressional testimony, when she was in fact asking him about foreclosure properties.
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Joe Biden responded Tuesday to President Donald Trump's claim that the former vice president "deserted" Pennsylvania, a critical battleground state in the 2020 presidential election.
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 California on Tuesday sued the Trump administration for pulling nearly $1 billion in federal funding from the state's high-speed rail project - a multiyear, over-budget proposal that President Trump has repeatedly mocked and Republicans have vowed to shut down.
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The job appears to come in response to Trump's desire for an immigration "czar," although the former Virginia attorney general's role is expected to be more limited.
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Lawmakers are divided ahead of intelligence briefings on Capitol Hill focused on rising tensions with Iran and America's deployments to the Middle East.
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Democrats are divided on opening impeachment proceedings after Trump blocks McGahn from testifying.
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The exemption had been a rare point of agreement.
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The decisive House of Representatives vote last Friday barring discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity marked a milestone in shifting American attitudes toward gay rights. But it also represented a landmark in the evolution of the Democratic Party into an urbanized coalition centered on the voters and communities most comfortable with social and demographic change.
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Democrats see a rare opportunity to win the governor's mansion, as the Republican incumbent, Matt Bevin, is the most unpopular governor in the country.
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Meet the 18-year-olds voting for the first time in the European Parliament elections.
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President Donald Trump will visit Ireland in two weeks as part of his state visit to the United Kingdom and events in England and France marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the White House announced Tuesday.
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On the penultimate day of the EU election campaign, parties seek to shore up their support.
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U.S. officials who briefed Congress about Iran on Tuesday sought to convince lawmakers that President Donald Trump's administration wants to deter Tehran's aggression, not attack the Islamic republic, members of Congress said.
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 For Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee, Ben Carson's unfamiliarity with certain abbreviations is nothing to LOL about.
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 Jonathan Ernst/ReutersFormer Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was spotted entering a congressional office building on Tuesday morning for what a committee aide told The Daily Beast was a meeting with the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs committee and relevant staff about his time working in the Trump administration.
Tillerson's appearance took place as virtually every other Trumpworld luminary has been stonewalling congressional oversight efforts. At the same time that the former Secretary of State was speaking before lawmakers, former White House counsel Don McGahn was ignoring a subpoena to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee.
Tillerson's arrival at the Capitol was handled with extreme secrecy. No media advisories or press releases were sent out announcing his appearance. And he took a little noticed route into the building in order to avoid being seen by members of the media.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Former Vice President Joe Biden has what it takes to win back a key battleground state for the Democratic Party that President Trump took in 2016, according to ex-DNC Interim Chairwoman Donna Brazile.
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Some Progressive Democrats have joined calls for an impeachment inquiry, arguing that it will strengthen the party's efforts to stop President Trump's stonewalling.
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Republican state Rep. Fred Keller is favored to best Penn State professor Marc Friedenberg (D) in the heavily Republican district, to which President Trump paid a visit Monday night.
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Instead of disciplining the Michigan Republican, GOP leaders have focused on painting him as an outlier.
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Jay Sekulow previously denied a claim by President Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen that Sekulow made changes to his 2017 statement to Congress about the project.
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A judge ruled that Trump's accounting firm must turn over his financial records even as the White House told a former top Trump aide not to show up at a hearing.
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 Rep. David Cicilline, D-RI, is now considering proceeding with impeachment if former White House Counsel Don McGahn is a no-show to Tuesday's scheduled congressional hearing.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he disagreed with a federal judge who ruled against his attempt to block a House of Representatives committee from seeking his financial records and told reporters he would appeal the decision.
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The equal pay measure announced Monday is another effort aimed at female voters, a key Harris target.
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