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Even as Ms. Yovanovitch was testifying about "the smear campaign against me," President Trump hurled insults at her on Twitter. She called his tweets "very intimidating" while Democrats accused the president of real-time witness intimidation and suggested it could form the basis for an article of impeachment.
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As Day Two of impeachment inquiry hearings get underway, host of "Justice with Judge Jeanine" Judge Jeanine Pirro argued Friday that House Democrats have no real basis for their probe.
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 Having to talk about a presidential Twitter attack that occurred during the hearing, and to disagree with it, wasn't part of the House GOP's game plan. But it might have been a part of Trump's, whose tweet represents a red cape being waved in front of Congressional Democrats--and a reassurance to his base, writes Doug Heye.
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 President Donald Trump's personal lawyers asked the Supreme Court on Friday to step into an escalating clash between the legislative and the executive branches and block a House subpoena for Trump's personal financial documents.
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Former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch is the star witness of the second day of the House's public impeachment inquiry, examining, among other things, whether and why President Donald Trump and his senior aides (and allies) pushed the longtime diplomat out to make it easier to implement their own version of policy toward the country.
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 President Donald Trump launched a Twitter attack on a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Friday while she was testifying to an impeachment hearing in Congress, in an extraordinary moment that Democrats said amounted to witness intimidation.
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Saugus High School Shooting: 15-Year-Old Girl ID'd as One of Two Students Killed in Santa Clarita KTLA Los AngelesDeadly high school shooting in Santa Clarita, California CNN2 students killed in California school shooting: Officials ABC News'Start Here': California school shooting and new testimony in Trump impeachment KABC-TVAuthorities: Teen in California School Shooting Killed 2, Wounded 3 VOA News
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 The guilty verdict is a downfall for Stone, a fixture in GOP politics. It comes amid an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
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One of the two teen students slain Southern California school shooting has been identified. The victim was identified as Gracie Anne Muehlberger who had just turned 15-years-old on Oct. 10, the Los Angeles County Coroner confirmed to The Post Friday. Muehlberger, along with a 14-year-old boy, was gunned down by alleged shooter Nathaniel Berhow Thursday...
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Opening statements: Marie Yovanovitch | Adam Schiff | Devin Nunes
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The NFL has suspended Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett indefinitely -- and at least for the rest of the season -- for ripping the opposing quarterback's helmet off his head and hitting him with it in Thursday night's game with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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State Department leadership has damaged the institution by failing to resist "foreign and corrupt interests that apparently hijacked" U.S. policy toward Ukraine and by not defending its own diplomats, the former U.S. envoy to Ukraine said on Friday.
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As Ms. Yovanovitch testified, President Trump tweeted insults at her, drawing charges of witness intimidation.
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 Key excerpts from "A Warning," a book by an anonymous senior administration official about President Trump and his administration.
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Rep. Devin Nunes on Friday dismissed former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch's testimony during the House impeachment inquiry, saying she "is not a material fact witness" and that her ouster from the post was more of a "human resources" issue. But first he took a shot at Democrats for holding closed-door hearings to take depositions...
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Cleveland Browns star Myles Garrett apologized in a statement released through the team for his role in a brawl in which he hit Pittsburgh Steelers' Mason Rudolph in the head with his own helmet.
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House impeachment investigators on Friday morning will hear publicly from the ousted US ambassador to Ukraine, whose removal Democrats say marks the start of the shadow diplomacy campaign that sparked their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and Ukraine.
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A suspect was arrested on multiple rape charges and a murder charge in a series of assaults in Washington and Maryland.
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 In a tweet Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick for moving to enter the 2020 presidential race.
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Marie Yovanovitch, the former United States ambassador to Ukraine, testified before the House on Friday that she was troubled by the misinformation disseminated about her by Fox News and other right-wing media entities.
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 Ousted Bolivian president Evo Morales said on Friday that fresh elections could be held without him, potentially removing an obstacle to choosing a new leader in the South American country thrown into turmoil by his resignation.
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Trump associate Roger Stone found guilty of lies that protected Trump CNNRoger Stone found guilty on all counts in federal trial Fox NewsRoger Stone Is Found Guilty in Trial That Revived Trump-Russia Saga The New York TimesOpinion: Trump and Roger Stone offer same defense: ‘So what?' Los Angeles Times
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 Fox News senior Capitol Hill producer Chad Pergram provided some cover for Donald Trump on Friday after the president unleashed a Twitter attack on former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch while she was testifying before Congress, noting that "witness intimidation" isn't featured in the Constitution as it relates to impeachment.Friday's open impeachment hearing took a dramatic turn when House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) read aloud the president's tweet, prompting Yovanovitch to respond: "I can't speak to what the president's trying to do but I think the effect is to be intimidating."Immediately after the hearing went into recess, Fox News anchor Bret Baier didn't pull any punches, pointing out that the hearing "turned on a dime" with the Trump tweet."That enabled Schiff to then characterize that tweet as intimidating the witness or tampering with the witness, which is a crime," Baier added. "Adding essentially an article of impeachment real-time."Baier wasn't the only Fox News on-air personality to express how the president's ill-advised tweet spelled bad news for him. Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said, "I think if you are not moved by the testimony of Marie Yovanovitch today you don't have a pulse," while Fox News contributor Ken Starr, a reliable Trump defender, lectured Trump."The president was not advised by counsel in deciding to do this tweet," the former independent counsel declared. "Extraordinarily
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A choir teacher was being hailed for calmly rendering first aid to a student wounded in Thursday's California school shooting amid the chaotic scene.
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Thousands have taken to the streets of La Paz in the three days since Añez took office, some resulting in confrontations with police and soldiers who patrol the perimeter of the national assembly. Tear gas, motorcycles and riot vehicles have been deployed to disperse the crowds calling for Añez to return her seat to Morales. On Wednesday, Bolivian Air Force planes flew over the protests.
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Readers in the United States and abroad react to the first day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry.
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 (Bloomberg) -- Bolivia's interim government said it will expel all Venezuelan diplomats in the country, as it re-aligns its foreign policy with the U.S. and its allies.Foreign Affairs Minister Karen Longaric, who was sworn in this week, said this is because representatives of President Nicolas Maduro's Venezuelan government have interfered in Bolivia's internal affairs.Longaric told reporters that the measure applies to all employees of the Venezuelan Embassy.Venezuela was a close ally of Bolivian President Evo Morales, who resigned and this week fled to Mexico. At the same time, Morales had a prickly relationship with Washington.Morales's allies, who have a majority in both houses of congress, say the new government is illegitimate and that it has no authority to make policy decisions.Morales resigned Nov. 10 after three weeks of protests when he lost the support of the security forces. He says he's the victim of a coup.To contact the reporter on this story: John Quigley in Lima at jquigley8@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Matthew Bristow at mbristow5@bloomberg.net, Robert JamesonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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The president has asked the court whether he enjoys absolute immunity. The answer should be an emphatic no.
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Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of President Donald Trump, has been found guilty at his trial in federal court in Washington
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Ousted US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch directly pushed back on Friday against the allegations leveled against her by President Donald Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, while a tweet from the President attacking Yovanovitch during the hearing sparked a real-time response and new allegations from Democrats of witness intimidation.
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Holiday time is looming, but this year it's different: You're a new parent with a baby in tow. Suddenly, the annual family throw-down at your in-laws' house, complete with Christmas lunch, a family walk to church, a black-tie Christmas Eve dinner, gifts for people who literally have everything,...
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 NFL suspends Browns' Myles Garrett rest of season, six games, after hitting player with helmet -- most severe penalty in NFL history for on-field act.
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When John Whittington shut his Morristown, Indiana, biodiesel plant this week, he knew the move would leave all 14 of his workers there looking for jobs heading into the U.S. holiday season. But he felt he had no choice.
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 The largest Starbucks in the world, the Reserve Roastery Chicago, opens on Magnificent Mile in Chicago on Nov. 15.
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Mr. Patrick, the former Massachusetts governor, entered the Democratic primary with less than three months to go before the Iowa caucuses.
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Jeanine Añez, who claimed the interim presidency, says former President Evo Morales can't run in a new election, but his party can.
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