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 The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held its second public hearing on Friday in an impeachment inquiry examining President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
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 Behind her, in a stately House hearing room, members of the media and the public sat riveted as Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, described how she was removed from her post because she was seen as standing in the way of political concessions President Trump wanted to allegedly wrest from the new presidential administration in Kyiv. Among the millions watching on television was Trump himself, who taunted Yovanovitch in a tweet. "Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," the tweet read, describing postings she'd had throughout her career, including in Somalia.
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President Donald Trump on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lower court ruling directing an accounting firm to hand over his financial records to a Democratic-led congressional panel, setting up a major clash between branches of government.
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Representative Elise Stefanik, once best known for becoming the youngest woman elected to Congress, stepped into center stage this week as a vocal defender of President Donald Trump during televised impeachment hearings.
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 Former radio talk show host and comedian Randy Credico told Yahoo News that he was in tears upon learning of the verdict and did not want to see Stone go to jail because of his testimony.
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 Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was repeatedly questioned during Friday's public impeachment hearing over allegations that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential election in opposition to President Trump.
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The House's impeachment inquiry, which burst into public view this week, will only pick up speed in the coming days.
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 Donald Trump's longtime confidant Roger Stone, who was accused of misleading Congress about his interactions with WikiLeaks to protect the president, was found guilty of all seven charges brought against him on Friday afternoon.
The eccentric 67-year-old was first indicted and arrested in January on several charges—including witness tampering, obstruction of justice and lying to Congress—that stemmed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. The "dirty trickster," as he calls himself, will be sentenced on Feb. 6, 2020.
Stone is no stranger to political scandal. Watch the video above for a glimpse inside his decades of dirty tricks.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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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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 Longtime Trump associate Roger Stone has been found guilty on at least one charge in a case that has shed new light on then-candidate Donald Trump's anticipation of the release of stolen Democratic emails in 2016.
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The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held its second public hearing on Friday in an impeachment inquiry examining President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine, with Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, testifying.
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As Ms. Yovanovitch testified, President Trump tweeted insults at her, drawing charges of witness intimidation.
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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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 President Trump blasted former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during her public testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday, saying everywhere she went "turned bad."
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The White House hopes to show that there was nothing untoward in the US-Ukraine relationship by releasing a rough transcript of President Donald Trump's first call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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A jury convicted U.S. President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Roger Stone on Friday on all charges, finding the long-time Republican operative and self-proclaimed "dirty trickster" guilty on seven criminal counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering.
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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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The insults came as Marie L. Yovanovitch testified about how she felt threatened by him, prompting Democrats to accuse the president of real-time witness intimidation.
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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 amounts to witness intimidation.
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The White House released a memo about Mr. Trump's first call with President Volodymyr Zelensky, but it does not mention "corruption," which appeared in an earlier description of the call.
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 As Marie Yovanovitch outlined the smear campaign that President Trump's allies successfully used to oust her as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Trump decided to add to it.
"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," the president tweeted, insisting on his "absolute right" to appoint ambassadors. Yovanovitch had just finished describing the "vague threat" she felt from the president himself, months after his allies derailed a diplomatic career notable for fighting corruption in Ukraine.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the point person for the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump, stopped a line of questioning to ask Yovanovitch what the effect would be on her and future impeachment witnesses. "I can't speak to what the president's trying to do," said Yovanovitch, "but I think the effect is to be intimidating."
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 A former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine testified Friday in the second public impeachment hearing, amid real-time attacks by President Trump himself, that she was the victim of a dishonest smear campaign in which one of the president's personal lawyers worked with corrupt Ukrainian officials to remove her from her position earlier this year. The public hearings are part of an investigation led by Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., into whether the full House should vote on articles of impeachment and recommend to the Senate that it hold a trial to determine whether the president is guilty of "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," as outlined in Article 2, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution.
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 Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., took some public swipes at Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., mocking him at Friday's impeachment hearing by reading old tweets from when the House Intelligence Committee chairman vowed to have the Ukraine whistleblower testify before his panel.
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 Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, pointed her finger at President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani while detailing her sudden removal from her diplomatic post during Friday's nationally-televised impeachment testimony, as the president fired back in realtime and said every place she worked "turned bad."
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 Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, will be testifying publicly Friday as part of the House impeachment inquiry.
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The US Supreme Court on Friday accepted a Justice Department appeal to review the cases of three men in the Air Force whose rape convictions were overturned last year -- including one whose confession the Air Force recorded -- when the top military appeals court found a five-year statute of limitations existed for military sexual assault before 2006.
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Polls show the program to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation is broadly popular. Democratic organizers see an opportunity to mobilize voters if it is ended.
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Twitter is banning all ads that mention specific candidates, elections, or legislation.
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White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Friday outlined how she would implement "Medicare for All" during her first term in office, including by passing new legislation in her first 100 days that would give all Americans the option of choosing the government health insurance plan.
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from three lawsuits demanding the Trump administration preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The Obama-era program has granted protection from deportation and a work permit to at least 700,000 undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children. The court's conservative majority appeared poised to side with President Trump in ending the program, while some of the court's liberal justices seemed skeptical of Trump's efforts. In September 2017, the Trump administration announced it planned to terminate DACA, arguing the program was "illegal" and "unconstitutional," but three lower courts disagreed and have kept the program alive, thanks to lawsuits filed by California, New York and D.C. Immigrant rights activists have been pushing the Supreme Court to save DACA, with dozens of immigrants with DACA recently taking part in a 16-day, 230-mile march from New York to the steps of the Supreme Court. We speak with Martín Batalla Vidal, the lead plaintiff in the New York federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's attempt to terminate DACA, and Trudy Rebert, a staff attorney at the National Immigration Law Center, which also filed suit to block the Trump administration's cancellation of DACA.
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President Donald Trump made 67 false claims last week, 27 of them related to Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
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 "Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from ‘angels,'" Trump tweeted Tuesday morning, hours before the Supreme Court was scheduled to hear opening arguments in the DACA case[s]. "Some are very tough, hardened criminals." The tweet is in line with Trump's past rhetoric, which frequently employs unsubstantiated characterization of immigrants in general as criminals, and seeks to win support for unpopular actions by demonizing the people who will be impacted by them.
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Lloyd Blankfein, a former Goldman Sachs chief executive, criticized Elizabeth Warren for engaging in the "vilification" of billionaires on Thursday and said that "maybe tribalism is just in her DNA," after he appeared in the presidential candidate's latest ad on taxing the super rich.
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 Two people were killed and several others were injured Thursday during a shooting at Saugus High School in the city of Santa Clarita and the student gunman was in custody, authorities said.
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