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Oct 22, 2019
The top U.S. emissary to Ukraine painted a devastating portrait in testimony today on Capitol Hill of what appeared to be White House-directed efforts to pressure the government in Kiev to investigate a Democratic political rival.
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Oct 22, 2019
The top U.S. emissary to Ukraine painted a devastating portrait in testimony Tuesday on Capitol Hill of what appeared to be White House-directed efforts to pressure the government in Kiev to investigate a Democratic political rival.
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Oct 22, 2019
Should billionaires, who own more wealth than half the world's population, exist? Some progressive politicians have proposed plans that could make billionaires a thing of the past.
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Oct 22, 2019
President Trump's insistence that there is a missing DNC server despite all evidence to the contrary could lead to his impeachment.
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Oct 22, 2019
President Trump's insistence that there is a missing DNC server despite all evidence to the contrary could lead to his impeachment.
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Oct 22, 2019
President Trump's comparison of the House Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry to "a lynching" was promptly condemned by many critics. But three prominent GOP senators came to his defense.
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Oct 22, 2019
President Trump comparison of the House Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry to "a lynching" was promptly condemned by many critics. But three prominent GOP senators came to his defense.
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Oct 22, 2019
Hillary Clinton suggested the Hawaiian congresswoman could help throw the race to Trump, but there are other potential third-party challengers lurking.
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Oct 22, 2019
Hillary Clinton suggested the Hawaiian congresswoman could help throw the race to Trump, but there are other potential third-party challengers lurking.
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Oct 22, 2019
While fuming Tuesday morning about the House Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry, President Trump declared the probe a "lynching."
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Oct 22, 2019
While fuming Tuesday morning about the House Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry, President Trump declared the probe a "lynching."
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Oct 22, 2019
While fuming Tuesday morning about the House Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry, President Trump declared the probe a "lynching."
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Oct 21, 2019
Hillary Clinton's suggestion that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was Russia's favorite candidate in the presidential primary sparked a harsh rebuke. Whose interests are served most by the public dispute between the two Democrats?
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Oct 21, 2019
President Trump told reporters Monday that the U.S. still has a "good relationship with the Kurds."
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Oct 21, 2019
President Trump on Monday stepped gleefully into a name-calling dispute between Hillary Clinton and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
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Oct 21, 2019
President Trump Monday stepped gleefully into a name-calling dispute between Hillary Clinton and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
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Oct 21, 2019
President Trump on Monday defended his initial plan to host next year's summit of world leaders at his golf resort near Miami, dismissing concerns that he would have personally profited from the decision.
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Oct 21, 2019
After spending a week railing against President Trump's decision to pull U.S. troops out of the northern Syria, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on Sunday that he supports the move.
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Oct 21, 2019
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at a town hall meeting which he hosted at Roosevelt High School on Oct. 12, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. Reminder: There are 105 days until the Iowa caucuses and 379 days until the 2020 election. It happened to Kamala Harris over the summer.
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Oct 20, 2019
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday defended President Trump's decision to host next year's G-7 summit at his hotel resort, saying the president "still considers himself to be in the hospitality business."
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Oct 19, 2019
Storming past questions about his health, Bernie Sanders vowed that he's "more ready than ever" to fight for a political revolution — with a little help from new friends — at a rally Saturday that drew thousands to a New York City park. The rally offered a pointed reminder to skeptics in both political parties that the 78-year-old democratic socialist is still very much a force in the 2020 presidential race.
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Oct 19, 2019
At a rally in Queens, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made her endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders for president official at a rally Saturday.
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Oct 18, 2019
The fourth week of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry in Congress was the busiest so far, with five different depositions, a fractious meeting of Republicans and Democrats at the White House, and a shocking press conference by President Trump's chief of staff.
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Oct 18, 2019
"This is not some outlandish claim," Clinton said in an interview this week. "This is reality."
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Oct 18, 2019
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was "very clear in cleaning up his statement" on whether President Trump floated a quid pro quo to Ukrainian leaders.
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Oct 18, 2019
Policemen run as a police van drives over a burning barricade during clashes between protestors and police in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. (Photo: Bernat Armangue/AP) BARCELONA, Spain — Catalonia and its riot-swept regional capital, Barcelona, were paralyzed Friday by a mix of strikes and marches as the northeastern Spanish region endured its fifth day of mass protests over the conviction of independence leaders. More than 200 people have been arrested and scores injured since separatist sentiment swelled on Monday, when the Supreme Court sentenced to lengthy prison terms nine separatist politicians and activists. The nine had led a 2017 push for independence that triggered Spain's deepest political crisis in decades.
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Oct 18, 2019
Amid what experts are calling a surge in voter suppression measures, Democrats are sending a clear signal they want to restore portions of the Voting Rights Act that were removed by the Supreme Court in 2013, as well as expand the law's reach.
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Oct 18, 2019
On Tuesday, the bulk of the Democrats running for president were prepping a debate. But Steve Bullock, the only governor of the group, was hundreds of miles away.
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Oct 18, 2019
William McRaven, who led the U.S. Special Operations Command under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, says the president's decision to abandon America's Kurdish allies in Syria is a betrayal that is eroding the country's reputation both at home and abroad.
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Oct 18, 2019
Laura Cooper, who played a crucial role in trying to move the Ukrainian aid forward, is set to testify Friday in the impeachment inquiry being led by Adam Schiff, the House Intelligence Committee chairman.
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Oct 18, 2019
Jack Goldsmith, who worked in the Justice Department under George W. Bush, says President Trump deserves to be impeached, but he's critical of how the Democrats are going about it.
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Oct 17, 2019
The Utah senator delivers an impassioned speech on the Senate floor that accuses the president of betraying American values.
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Oct 17, 2019
President Trump will not be discussing climate change at the next G-7 meeting, his acting chief of staff says.
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Oct 17, 2019
The White House announcement that next year's G-7 summit will be held the Trump National Doral in Miami was immediately blasted by critics who say President Trump is personally profiting from the choice to hold it there.
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Oct 17, 2019
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney confirms that the president withheld military aid from Ukraine because he wanted the country to look for a computer server belonging to the Democratic National Committee.
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Oct 17, 2019
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion, died Thursday of complications from long-standing health problems. He was 68.
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Oct 17, 2019
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion, died Thursday of complications from long-standing health problems. He was 68.
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Oct 17, 2019
For the first time, a majority of Americans said this week that they supported the impeachment of President Trump. For Trump, this polling milestone comes less than one month after reports first surfaced of a Ukraine whistleblower and roughly three weeks after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the start of a formal impeachment inquiry — meaning that it represents a historical milestone as well. Trump hasn't just crossed the 50-percent threshold on impeachment, peaking at 50.3 percent earlier this week.
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Oct 17, 2019
President Donald Trump announced sanctions on Turkey after Turkish forces advanced into Syria. Can economic pressure stop Turkey's assault?
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Oct 17, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Trump and former President Barack Obama were among those to pay tribute to Cummings, who died Thursday at 68.
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Oct 17, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Trump were among those to pay tribute to Cummings, who died Thursday at 68.
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Oct 17, 2019
"La paloma y la ley" ("The Dove and the Law"), follows two women, Marta and Liset, who left Cuba in May 2016 with no plan, just the name of a coyote — a human smuggler — scribbled on a piece of paper, and a dream to make it to the U.S. They hoped to arrive before the imminent end of "wet foot, dry foot," a policy that fast-tracked Cubans to asylum and permanent residency.
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Oct 16, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walked out of a meeting with Donald Trump about the crisis in Syria Wednesday after she said the president had had a "very serious meltdown" and insulted her in front of other congressional leaders.
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Oct 16, 2019
Trump and the White House have denied those claims. "Volker was devastating for the Democrats' narrative," the Republican staffer involved in impeachment asserted, though he was unable to provide any details.
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Oct 16, 2019
President Trump on Wednesday sought to advance the Ukraine conspiracy theory that his aides had warned him repeatedly was "completely debunked."
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Oct 16, 2019
At the end of the night, it would be hard to say if many minds were changed by the Democratic primary debate Tuesday at Ohio's Otterbein University. But it did bring some differences among them into sharper focus, setting the stage for the next phase of the primary process.
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Oct 16, 2019
President Trump on Wednesday tried to further distance himself from his decision to pull U.S. troops out of northern Syria, abandon America's Kurdish allies and clear the way for Turkey's bloody incursion that has quickly turned into a humanitarian crisis.
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Oct 16, 2019
President Trump on Wednesday tried to further distance himself from his decision to pull U.S. troops out of northern Syria, abandon America's Kurdish allies and clear the way for Turkey's bloody incursion that has quickly turned into a humanitarian crisis.
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Oct 16, 2019
In one phone call, Turkey's President Erdogan talked Donald Trump into pulling U.S. troops from the Syrian border — allowing him to begin an invasion that is turning into a humanitarian disaster, and provoking retaliation by a furiously back-pedaling White House. Who is Erdogan — and how does he do it?
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Oct 16, 2019
Warren is treated like the front-runner, a "healthy" Bernie returns to the debate stage with key endorsements in his pocket and more.
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Oct 16, 2019
For much of the fourth Democratic debate, there were effectively two people on the stage: Elizabeth Warren and everyone else.
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Oct 16, 2019
For much of the fourth Democratic debate, there were effectively two people on the stage: Elizabeth Warren and everyone else.
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Oct 15, 2019
Two Democrats suggested making small amounts of heroin legal as a way to combat the drug epidemic.
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Oct 15, 2019
At Tuesday night's Democratic primary debate, presidential candidates Beto O'Rourke and Pete Buttigieg escalated their disagreement over Buttigieg's proposal for mandatory buybacks of assault weapons.
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Oct 15, 2019
Yet Gabbard was mostly alone in appearing to support the sudden withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region, even from candidates like Warren, who have expressed concern about U.S. military intervention abroad.
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Oct 15, 2019
After suffering a heart attack two weeks ago, the Vermont senator made his formal return to the race during Tuesday's 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate. And he thanked his rivals for the outpouring of "love" and "prayers."
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Oct 15, 2019
After suffering a heart attack two weeks ago, the Vermont senator made his formal return to the race during Tuesday's 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate. And he thanked his rivals for their outpouring of "love" and "prayers."
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Oct 15, 2019
In her first debate as a frontrunner, Sen. Elizabeth Warren faced attacks over her position on health care.
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Oct 15, 2019
At the Democratic presidential debate at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden defended both himself and his son's actions in Ukraine amid claims by President Trump that they were corrupt.
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Oct 15, 2019
At the start of Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate, all the candidates agreed that House Democrats were justified in opening an impeachment inquiry targeting Donald Trump.
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Oct 15, 2019
President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani informed House Democrats on Tuesday that he will not comply with a subpoena for documents they sent him as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
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Oct 15, 2019
California's largest utility, PG&E, shut down power to 2 million customers to avoid sparking a wildfire during heavy winds. Will these blackouts be part of life for residents going forward or are there ways to avoid them?
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Oct 15, 2019
House investigators have turned up plenty of information in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
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Oct 15, 2019
Tonight's goal: A plurality of Americans now say they believe Trump's accusations are hurting Biden's prospects of becoming the Democratic nominee. Tonight's goal: It's all about Iowa. Tonight's goal: His campaign hopes the debate will mark Sanders's triumphant return to the trail.
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Oct 15, 2019
The effort by President Trump and his attorney general to enlist foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies in their smear of Joe Biden may do lasting damage to relationships with their counterparts in other countries and the critical "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing agreement.
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Oct 15, 2019
MSNBC's Chris Hayes on what he would do if a Trump-like celebrity ever ran for president as a Democrat.
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Oct 15, 2019
Joe Biden sees himself as a champion of an aspirational, yet pragmatic, policy, but Latino activists think he needs to apologize for millions of deportations while he was vice president. Can he escape the shadow of the Obama administration's record on deportations?
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Oct 14, 2019
Facing sustained bipartisan criticism over his decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria, President Trump on Monday took to Twitter in an attempt to defend the move.
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Oct 14, 2019
Facing sustained bipartisan criticism over his decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria, President Trump on Monday took to Twitter in an attempt to defend the move.
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Oct 14, 2019
When Republican congressman Matt Gaetz tried to attend an impeachment inquiry deposition Monday morning in the U.S. Capitol, he ran smack into the often arcane and confusing rules of Congress. Here's why he wasn't allowed to attend.
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Oct 14, 2019
The storm dumped record amounts of rain, causing rivers to overflow their banks and turning many neighborhoods into swamps.
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Oct 14, 2019
That rapid 17-point shift means a majority of Americans may soon support impeachment, or, taking margin-of-error into account, might already do. And that's terrible news for Trump. Trump is.
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Oct 14, 2019
The White House on Monday tried to distance itself from a violent parody video that was shown at a pro-Trump conference at the president's Doral Miami resort over the weekend.
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Oct 14, 2019
The White House on Monday tried to distance itself from a violent parody video that was shown at a pro-Trump conference at the president's Doral Miami resort over the weekend.
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Oct 12, 2019
A tweet from an NBA executive set off a backlash from China that has caused players and league officials to backtrack. Should the NBA push back or play ball with Chinese demands?
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Oct 12, 2019
At 58, a former music professor and composer became homeless. This is the story of what he has learned from the experience.
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Oct 11, 2019
Democratic presidential candidates are likely to stick to script if they're asked on the debate stage on Oct. 15 about rival Joe Biden, his son Hunter and the impeachment inquiry, according to sources on several campaigns.
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Oct 11, 2019
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, both a critic of President Trump and a target of his scorn, announced Friday that he was leaving the network.
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Oct 11, 2019
Democrats already believe they have enough evidence to impeach Trump, in the form of a whistleblower complaint and a partial transcript of a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic rival for the presidency, and his son Hunter.
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Oct 11, 2019
The president's legal team was handed three courtroom defeats on Friday.
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Oct 11, 2019
The president's legal team was handed three courtroom defeats on Friday.
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Oct 11, 2019
A former top State Department official says that President Trump's green light for a Turkish invasion into northern Syria was a "super-damaging" and "reckless" mistake that could prolong the war there for "probably two or three decades."
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Oct 11, 2019
When President Trump pulled troops from a region of northeastern Syria, it was denounced as a "shameless betrayal" of the Kurds, who were left on their own to fight off an invasion by Turkey. But Kurdish history is filled with such betrayals.
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Oct 11, 2019
The Commission on Presidential Debates on Friday announced the sites and dates for three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate during the 2020 general election.
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Oct 11, 2019
Yahoo News brings you this exclusive video in celebration of Latinx Heritage Month. Among the first-time college goers who are settling in to their new surroundings is University of Pennsylvania freshman Michelle Mahecha Perez. The overall acceptance rate for Perez's UPenn class of 2023 was a record-low 7.4 percent.
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Oct 11, 2019
Fisherman Romuel Sambrea, known as a "tripero" for the inner tube he uses to float on, poses for a portrait after a day's work on the oil-contaminated Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela. "The situation here is very difficult," said the father of four. "I'm a baker, but I can't live with just one job." (Photo: Rodrigo Abd/AP) CABIMAS, Venezuela — The landscape of Venezuela's once robust oil industry lies all around fishermen and their families who live in villages clustered on the edge of Lake Maracaibo.
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Oct 11, 2019
After being blocked from testifying in the House impeachment inquiry, Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the EU and a central player in the Ukraine controversy, will appear before Congress next week.
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Oct 11, 2019
The Saddleridge fire flares up near a firefighter in Sylmar, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (Photo: Michael Owen Baker/AP) A wildfire fueled by Santa Ana winds has closed two freeways, is threatening homes and has forced evacuations around Los Angeles. Fire officials say the Saddleridge fire had consumed more than 4,600 acres by Friday morning. It broke out after 9 p.m.
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Oct 11, 2019
The Ukraine affair has turned into an impeachment inquiry that could see President Trump removed from office. But it is also an example of yet another federal agency — this time, the Pentagon — caught off-guard by the president's political imperatives.
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Oct 11, 2019
The Trump administration is moving forward with an ambitious plan to give private businesses greater access to national parks, according to a memorandum written by an advisory council for the Department of the Interior.
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Oct 11, 2019
The Ukraine affair has turned into an impeachment inquiry that could see President Trump removed from office. But it is also an example of yet another federal agency — this time, the Pentagon — caught off-guard by the president's political imperatives.
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Oct 11, 2019
The Trump administration is moving forward with an ambitious plan to give private businesses greater access to national parks, according to a memorandum written by an advisory council for the Department of the Interior. Drafters of the plan say it amounts to little more than a much-needed modernization of aging infrastructure, and that the goal is to make national parks accessible to a younger, more diverse audience. There are 419 national parks in the United States, from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska.
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Oct 11, 2019
At his first campaign rally since House Democrats initiated an impeachment inquiry targeting him, a defiant President Trump blasted the opposition party's investigations.
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Oct 11, 2019
At his first campaign rally since House Democrats initiated an impeachment inquiry targeting him, a defiant President Trump blasted the opposition party's investigations.
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Oct 10, 2019
Pat Robertson stood by Donald Trump during the storm over the "Access Hollywood" tape of the Republican candidate boasting about assaulting women, dismissing the remarks as "macho talk." As recently as last month, he defended Trump's attempt to get Ukraine to discredit Joe Biden, calling the idea of impeachment "absurd." But this week, finally, Trump did something that "absolutely appalled" Robertson, leading him to warn that the president was in danger of losing "the mandate of Heaven:" he moved a small contingent of American troops from the Syrian-Turkish border, signaling to Turkey that it could begin an assault on territory held by Kurdish guerrillas. Bassam Ishak, president of the Syriac National Council which advocates for the rights of Syriac Christians and other Syrian minorities, told Yahoo News he has been receiving photos and videos of the damage caused by Turkish airstrikes in the region once protected by U.S. forces.
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Oct 10, 2019
The White House announced it won't cooperate with the impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives. Will this strategy benefit the president or could it backfire?
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Oct 10, 2019
The president's decision to bulk up his legal team with former congressman Trey Gowdy amid a widening impeachment inquiry is drawing criticism from one of his high-profile supporters.
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Oct 10, 2019
The president's decision to bulk up his legal team with former congressman Trey Gowdy amid a widening impeachment inquiry is drawing criticism from one of his high-profile supporters.
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Oct 10, 2019
"The president said it on the lawn," replied a reporter, referencing Trump's call on the White House lawn last week for China and Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.
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