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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is considering pushing off final acquittal in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial until next week under a proposal being negotiated Friday by party leaders. The situation remained fluid, but senators…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s lawyers struggled to keep their impeachment defense on track Monday, insisting Democrats had failed to prove their case while resisting escalating attempts to subpoena former National Security Adviser John Bolton.…

Twenty-one years ago, in January 1999, the U.S. Senate began the impeachment trial of then-President William Jefferson Clinton. While Clinton ultimately wasn’t removed from office, much was said during the proceedings about the importance of…

On Monday, former national security adviser John Bolton, one of a handful of top White House officials with direct knowledge of President Donald Trump’s actions and views regarding Ukraine, announced that he was ready to…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s excuses to avoid a real impeachment trial with witnesses and documents collapse daily. The latest shoe to drop: Former National Security Adviser John Bolton released a statement Tuesday saying that…

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine announced Tuesday that she, too, would prefer to hear testimony before casting her lot in the upcoming impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Collins joins fellow Republican Sen. Lisa…

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, thinks the pending Senate trial of impeached President Donald Trump should be a serious, sober affair in which senators acting as jurors consider evidence with an open mind. Imagine that. She…

Has anyone in this country not decided how he or she feels about the impeachment of President Donald Trump? We assume there must be a few such people. Perhaps they live in caves or are…