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Jan 23, 2020
In the first years of the occupation, Qassem Soleimani had moved back and forth between Iran and Iraq "constantly," but had always taken the precautions to be expected from a seasoned intelligence officer, said John Maguire, a former senior CIA official stationed in Baghdad in the mid-2000s. Soleimani disguised his rank and identity, used only ground transportation and avoided speaking on the phone or the radio, preferring to give orders to proxies and subordinates in Iraq in person.
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Jan 22, 2020
After keeping the august members of the U.S. Senate in their seats for roughly 18 of the previous 30 hours, Adam Schiff told the group of not-so-young lawmakers that he and a fellow impeachment manager had just over two hours more to go Wednesday night.
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Jan 22, 2020
In a new poll, 63 percent of registered voters agree that the Senate should call new witnesses to testify during President Trump's impeachment trial.
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Jan 22, 2020
The billionaire presidential candidate Tom Steyer reiterated his support Wednesday for reparations for African- Americans suffering from the legacy of slavery.
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Jan 22, 2020
The key witness against President Trump's former confidant and political mentor Roger Stone has written a highly unusual letter to a federal judge asking her not to sentence Stone to prison.
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Jan 22, 2020
Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment manager in the president's trial, told the Senate that if Trump's "conduct is not impeachable, then nothing is."
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Jan 22, 2020
As debate continued over the rules of the impeachment trial of President Trump on Monday night and into Tuesday morning, the Trump administration released 192 pages of documents from the Office of Management and Budget on the withholding of aid intended for Ukraine throughout the summer of 2019. While heavily redacted, those documents appear to show Trump political appointees taking an unusually intense interest in the matter, doing what they could to ensure that some $250 million appropriated by Congress would not move from Washington to Kyiv.
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Jan 22, 2020
Newly released Office of Management and Budget documents from last summer show Trump appointees' intense interest in withholding aid to Ukraine.
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Jan 22, 2020
In a live studio interview on Yahoo News' "Hot Mic With Brittany Shepherd," Democratic candidate Tom Steyer discusses Trump's Twitter attacks, his own billionaire status, and takes questions from first-time voters in the audience.
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Jan 22, 2020
Details about Hunter Biden could complicate life for Joe Biden — exactly what Trump was trying to do with his Ukraine scheme last summer.
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Jan 22, 2020
Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent letters Wednesday to the nation's largest banks asking them to share their plans to deal with the risks posed by climate change.
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Jan 22, 2020
Democrats accused the president of boasting about obstructing Congress after a Davos press conference.
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Jan 22, 2020
A conservative group critical of President Trump released an ad that targets Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins for her votes during the impeachment trial.
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Jan 22, 2020
The billionaire running for the Democratic nomination responded to comments from the president calling him a "major loser."
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Jan 21, 2020
Officials at the United Nations are seeking information from the government of Saudi Arabia relating to the hacking of a phone belonging to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Jan 21, 2020
Cipollone said. Schiff responded with a point-by-point rebuttal of Cipollone's grab bag of arguments. On the first day of the Senate impeachment trial, President Trump's lawyers were caught off guard and unprepared. "It's very difficult to sit there and listen to Mr. Schiff," Cipollone said.
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Jan 21, 2020
Sanders himself has been dismissive of Clinton's comments. And then there's Obama himself to consider. Clinton's timing is conspicuous.
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Jan 21, 2020
Apple is refusing to unlock the phone of a Saudi Air Force cadet who killed three people at a Florida naval base. Is Apple holding back justice or is the company right to defend user privacy?
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Jan 21, 2020
Apple is refusing to unlock the phones of a Saudi Air Force officer who killed three people at a Florida naval base. Is Apple holding back justice, or is the company right to defend user privacy?
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Jan 21, 2020
Adam Schiff joined Sen. Chuck Schumer in slamming the rules unveiled by Republicans for the Senate trial, calling them "a process for a rigged trial."
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Jan 21, 2020
Four years after her bitter primary fight against Sen. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton is leveling fresh criticism against the Vermont senator, calling him an ineffectual lawmaker and refusing to commit to supporting him if he wins the 2020 nomination.
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Jan 20, 2020
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the rules for a Senate impeachment trial on Monday evening, the night before Republicans in the chamber are set to approve them by what is expected to be a party-line vote.
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Jan 20, 2020
Both sides say the outcome of President Trump's impeachment trial will have a momentous impact on the nation's future.
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Jan 19, 2020
Republican Senator Richard Shelby defended an argument from President Trump's legal team that soliciting foreign interference in an election is not an impeachable offense, saying, "things happen."
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Jan 19, 2020
Moments after Virginia Gov. Graham Northam approached the podium at the state capitol building on Wednesday to announce that he was issuing a temporary state of emergency ahead of a gun rights rally on Monday in Richmond, the angry comments started pouring in. What started in November as a fight between rural Virginia gun owners and newly elected Democratic lawmakers seeking to propose gun control legislation has since been warped and amplified by extremist groups which, for different reasons, have sought to exploit real tensions around Virginia's gun debate to advance their own agendas.
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Jan 19, 2020
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his presidential campaign's plan for bolstering economic opportunity for black Americans.
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Jan 18, 2020
The author, who has lived in a New York homeless shelter since May, reflects on ways to make life safer for those it serves.
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Jan 17, 2020
Polling has shown a relatively tight four-way race at the top, and a new method of reporting results could give multiple campaigns the ability to claim a win.
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Jan 17, 2020
Polling has shown a relatively tight four-way race at the top and a new method of reporting results could give multiple campaigns the ability to claim a win.
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Jan 17, 2020
The legal team representing President Trump in his Senate impeachment trial will include some familiar faces, especially for regular viewers of Fox News.
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Jan 16, 2020
Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas said he was giving media interviews about his role in President Trump's attempts convince Ukrainian officials to announce an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden because he wanted to protect himself from Attorney General William Barr.
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Jan 16, 2020
Warren's shift from defense to offense has done little to quell tensions on the left — tensions that grew so acute by Thursday that a coalition of dozens of leading progressive groups felt compelled to call for a truce.
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Jan 16, 2020
Warren's shift from defense to offense has done little to quell tensions on the left — tensions that grew so acute by Thursday that a coalition of dozens of leading progressive groups felt compelled to call for a truce.
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Jan 16, 2020
President Trump and one of his top allies in Congress have taken a curious interest in Bernie Sanders in recent days.
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Jan 16, 2020
A recent push to eliminate cash bail for people suspected of crimes has received intense pushback by those who say the reforms let dangerous criminals go free. Is ending cash bail the right choice?
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Jan 16, 2020
The final procedural requirements for the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump were met on Thursday afternoon when Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in by Senate president pro tem Chuck Grassley. Roberts, who will preside over the impeachment trial, then swore in all 100 sitting senators. The two swearings-in come 114 days after House Democrats announced a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump's alleged efforts to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into announcing investigations that could influence American politics in the 2020 election.
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Jan 16, 2020
Among the many revelations in Lev Parnas's spate of recent interviews was his claim that Vice President Pence was "in the loop" regarding President Trump's plan to withhold U.S. military aid to Ukraine unless its government publicly announced an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Jan 16, 2020
President Trump had no authority to withhold some $250 million in military aid to Ukraine that had been appropriated by Congress, the Government Accountability Office found in a report released Thursday morning.
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Jan 16, 2020
With preparations for the Senate impeachment trial underway, there are still several days before next week's opening arguments, leaving a vacuum Republicans and Democrats will fill with debate over whether witnesses will be allowed to testify.
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Jan 16, 2020
President Trump's most effective path forward, not only to prevail in the impeachment proceedings but to end this ordeal and create a strong position from which to govern, is to follow the Clinton model rather than the Nixon path.
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Jan 16, 2020
A number of progressive groups pushed to calm the tensions between the campaigns of the two presidential hopefuls.
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Jan 16, 2020
For at least two decades, sitting presidents have challenged the idea that the three branches of government are coequal, and that while each branch has different powers, no branch is more powerful than any other.
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Jan 15, 2020
Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg says women who are debating whether or not to support him should "just look at the record."
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Jan 15, 2020
Lev Parnas, a key player in President Trump's efforts to obtain a Ukrainian investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, gave a bombshell interview to MSNBC Wednesday that undercut the president's defense just hours before the Senate was scheduled to begin his impeachment trial.
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Jan 15, 2020
House Democrats delivered two articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate on Wednesday.
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Jan 15, 2020
A rough guide for what to expect in the coming days and weeks.
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Jan 15, 2020
According to Democratic National Committee guidelines, the party's next presidential nominee will be chosen over the next several months by tens of millions of primary voters and caucus-goers in every U.S. state and territory. As a rule, Republicans don't get a vote. But apparently that won't stop Donald Trump from trying to influence the process.
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Jan 15, 2020
At Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders engaged in a "he said, she said" battle regarding a conversation the two progressive candidates had in 2018.
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Jan 15, 2020
Joe Biden's presidential campaign is set to launch a program designed to organize grassroots support at historically black colleges and universities, focusing on electability as a key part of the pitch to students.
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Jan 15, 2020
Iraq's parliament recently voted to expel American troops from within its borders, but the U.S. says it has no plans to leave. Is it time to fully withdraw troops from Iraq?
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Jan 15, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ended a pause in the impeachment proceedings against President Trump on Wednesday by naming seven managers who will act as prosecutors in the Senate trial set to start next week.
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Jan 15, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ended a pause in the impeachment proceedings against President Trump on Wednesday by naming seven managers who will act as prosecutors in the Senate trial set to start next week.
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Jan 15, 2020
For the Trump administration, appointing board members may be an effective and little-noticed means of weakening a federal apparatus it fundamentally distrusts. His board appointments, many of which may outlast his presidency, could serve an internal Republican resistance to a future Democratic administration.
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Jan 15, 2020
Joe Biden avoided any serious missteps while Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren briefly clashed over what Sanders might have said to her over dinner in 2018.
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Jan 14, 2020
Six candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination took the stage on Tuesday night in Des Moines, Iowa, where they spent the first quarter of the debate defending their positions on foreign policy — while tearing into President Trump's.
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Jan 14, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders again denied allegations that he told Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018 that a woman would not be elected president during a private meeting in December 2016.
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Jan 14, 2020
The U.S. Army's top officer said Tuesday during an appearance in Washington, D.C., that he isn't worried by Russia's growing arsenal of hypersonic missiles.
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Jan 14, 2020
"The diplomatic communication channel between [the] U.S. and Iran that is provided by Switzerland in the framework of the protective power mandate continues to operate," a Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said in an email to Yahoo News.
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Jan 14, 2020
It's virtually certain that the trial will last beyond the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses. The bigger question is how much the trial might interfere with the Feb. 11 New Hampshire primary.
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Jan 14, 2020
Capitol Hill is headed for a week of anticlimactic limbo this week, as Congress jumps through a number of procedural hoops required to actually begin a Senate impeachment trial.
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Jan 14, 2020
In this episode of "Inside Impeachment," Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff breaks down everything you need to know about what to expect now that President Trump has officially been impeached by the House of Representatives. With a Senate trial expected soon and the 2020 presidential race well underway, impeachment is poised to have unexpected consequences for both Democrats and Republicans in the election.
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Jan 14, 2020
Pat Cipollone is using a defensive strategy that could end up redefining the power of the presidency. His detractors say his stonewalling of the impeachment inquiry and other investigations into Trump could do long-term damage to the very institution he is supposed to protect.
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Jan 14, 2020
With ruthless efficiency and speed, and with little consideration of Democratic objections, Trump has managed to largely blunt and even reverse his predecessors' efforts to diversify the federal judiciary by appointing dozens of white men to the bench.
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Jan 14, 2020
Jeffrey Rosen tells Yahoo News that Chief Justice John Roberts will almost certainly avoid weighing in on whether President Trump's Senate impeachment trial should include testimony from witnesses.
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Jan 13, 2020
The question that Democrats are asking now, on the eve of the first all-white debate of the cycle, is why? Why did two high-profile black senators (Cory Booker and Kamala Harris) drop out before Iowa? Why didn't Julián Castro, America's most prominent Latino politician, ever crack 2 percent in the national polls? Why are all four of the remaining front-runners white? Is race the reason?
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Jan 13, 2020
The question that Democrats are asking now, on the eve of the first all-white debate of the cycle, is why? Why did two high-profile black senators (Cory Booker and Kamala Harris) drop out before Iowa? Why didn't Julián Castro, America's most prominent Latino politician, ever crack 2 percent in the national polls? Why are all four of the remaining front-runners white? Is race the reason?
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Jan 13, 2020
A deadly shootout in a kosher deli in Jersey City, N.J., and a stabbing attack in Monsey, N.Y., are part of a pattern of increasing attacks on Jews across the U.S., including deadly assaults on synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway, Calif., that killed 12.
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Jan 13, 2020
In a series of tweets and retweets riddled with typos and offensive images, President Trump lashed out Monday morning against criticism over the way he and his administration have handled the killing of a top Iranian general.
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Jan 13, 2020
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker said multiple factors had contributed to his conclusion that he had no chance to win the Democratic nomination.
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Jan 13, 2020
Responding to a new ad from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the president misrepresented his administration's health care record.
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Jan 12, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday continued her calls for witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial after conceding to send articles of impeachment to the Senate in the coming weeks without Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's commitment to hear new testimony.
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Jan 10, 2020
Several campaigns are largely absent from the Snapchat ad market, leaving a six-way battle for Generation Z voters.
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Jan 10, 2020
Not all of Trump's actions toward Iran have been met with public disapproval or division.
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Jan 10, 2020
In a briefing on Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted the U.S. government had "specific information" that Iran was planning an "imminent" attack on American facilities before President Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
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Jan 10, 2020
The Iran crisis collided with the Democratic presidential race this week as Sen. Bernie Sanders and President Trump battled over the circumstances of the U.S. strike that killed a prominent Iranian general.
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Jan 10, 2020
Rep. Doug Collins apologized Friday for saying that Democrats are "in love with terrorists" and mourn more for killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani than they "mourn for our Gold Star families."
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Jan 10, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that the House will send articles of impeachment to the Senate next week, setting in motion a trial that is likely to run through the end of January.
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Jan 09, 2020
President Trump went after his Democratic critics at a raucous campaign rally hours after the House of Representatives passed a resolution that sought to limit his ability to wage war in Iran.
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Jan 09, 2020
The latest data suggests that Democrats are still so divided that the primary may go on (and on, and on) for another six months — with no nominee until the very end of July's national convention in Milwaukee.
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Jan 09, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will send articles of impeachment to the Senate "soon," but still wants to see definitive details from the Senate on how it will conduct the trial.
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Jan 09, 2020
The president on Thursday continued to defend his decision to order the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani without congressional authorization, claiming that Tehran was planning an attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq.
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Jan 09, 2020
Defending President Trump's order to launch a drone strike that killed Iran's most famous general without congressional authorization, Collins stirred outrage by suggesting Democrats who planned to vote for a resolution limiting the president's war powers are "in love with terrorists."
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Jan 09, 2020
Citing an attempt to avoid censorship, the social media platform will continue to allow politicians to put falsehoods in their ads.
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Jan 09, 2020
A senior official in Ukraine says the authorities in Kyiv are looking into whether a missile brought down a passenger aircraft that crashed in Iran.
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Jan 09, 2020
A senior official in Ukraine says the authorities in Kyiv are looking into whether a missile brought down a passenger aircraft that crashed in Iran on Wednesday.
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Jan 09, 2020
While details remain scant, U.S. authorities believe it's "highly likely" that an errant Iranian missile brought down the Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed outside Tehran, Iran, shortly after taking off on Wednesday.
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Jan 09, 2020
Lawmakers from both side of the aisle have been fighting over whether the Senate impeachment trial will include new witnesses. Can it be considered a true trial without their testimony?
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Jan 08, 2020
What are Iran's military strengths and weaknesses? Iran's military strength does not lie in its conventional forces, despite their size, something that Iranian leaders fully realize, according to Taleblu. "It is a grade-A 1970s military," Taleblu said. _____ How is Iran's military organized?
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Jan 08, 2020
A briefing by Trump administration officials about the U.S. military strike that killed Iran's most famous general backfired on Wednesday, angering two Republican senators and driving them to support a Democratic effort to require congressional approval for any further military engagement.
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Jan 08, 2020
During his address to the nation Wednesday on the exchange of hostilities with Iran over the past week, President Trump made a number of questionable assertions.
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Jan 08, 2020
Time will tell whether the fallout from Soleimani's death will yield negative foreign-policy consequences for the U.S. But for now it appears that war with Iran isn't one of them. That's the best political outcome Trump could have hoped for.
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Jan 08, 2020
There is a long history of animosity — and some interludes of cooperation — between the U.S. and Iran, a nation of 81 million whose proud history traces back more than 2,500 years to ancient Persia.
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Jan 08, 2020
As tensions rise between the U.S. and Iran, legal questions about the president's power to start a war have arisen.
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Jan 08, 2020
The president announced that no lives were lost in Iran's ballistic missile attack on Iraqi bases housing U.S. soldiers, a strike that was in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
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Jan 08, 2020
A Ukrainian passenger jet carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday, just minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital's main airport, turning farmland on the outskirts of Tehran into fields of flaming debris and killing all on board.
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Jan 07, 2020
The Saudi authorities detected a new destructive cyberattack suspected of coming from Iran on Dec. 29, the same day the U.S. military struck targets controlled by Iranian-backed proxies in retaliation for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor the previous Friday.
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Jan 07, 2020
If U.S. forces departed Iraq, "I suspect additional forces would have to be based in Syria," said the former military commander in Iraq.
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Jan 07, 2020
Iran launched attacks on U.S. military bases in Iraq on Tuesday evening in apparent retaliation for the killing of Iranian General Qassem which was ordered by President Trump.
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Jan 07, 2020
Democrats said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's impeachment delay has paid off for them despite the fact that the Senate trial will go forward without an immediate agreement on witnesses.
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