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WASHINGTON —Congress plans to extend government funding through Dec. 20, averting the risk of a shutdown next week but setting up a potential spending fight amid likely impeachment votes before the end of the year,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The view among the national security officials was unanimous: Military aid to Ukraine should not be stopped. But President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff thought otherwise. As the aid was being…

As the U.S. House of Representative speeds toward formal impeachment hearings and vote — and as the U.S. Senate prepares to then hold a trial on whether to remove the president from office — it’s…

WASHINGTON  ——As the impeachment inquiry against President Trump moves into a public phase this week, leading Democrats — joined by at least one GOP lawmaker ——on Sunday rejected Republican demands for public testimony by the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has started a presidential impeachment inquiry. House committees are trying to determine whether President Donald Trump violated his oath of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army officer at the National Security Council who twice raised concerns over the Trump administration’s push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats and Joe Biden, arrived in military uniform on Capitol Hill…

About two dozen House Republicans stormed the Capitol basement Wednesday morning, shutting down the inquiry as to whether President Donald Trump’s withholding of military aid to Ukraine this summer was contingent on it aiding his…

See original document   Opening Statement of Ambassador William B. Taylor – October 22, 2019 Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportunity to appear today to provide my perspective on the events that are the subject…

WASHINGTON — Amid growing political pressure from Republicans, House leaders on Tuesday began seriously gauging support among Democrats for holding a vote to formally establish the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump — even through the inquiry…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Republican leaders were silent or supportive of President Donald Trump’s public call for another foreign government, China, to investigate his political foe, while a handful voiced concern that the president was…