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November 19, 2019 at 7:38 pm

Officials Testify That Trump Requests on Ukraine Call Were Inappropriate VIEW

Democrats used Tuesday’s back-to-back hearings to move the focus of their growing case into the White House and back to the July phone call they...

Jennifer Williams, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump’s efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) DCMC103 DCMC103

November 19, 2019 at 5:24 am

Who Is Jennifer Williams? Pence Aide Listened to Trump-Zelenskiy Call

Williams was one of a handful of national security officials who listened in real time to President Donald Trump’s July 25 telephone call with Volodymyr...

National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump’s efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) DCAH453 DCAH453

November 19, 2019 at 4:38 am

What to expect from Tuesday’s impeachment inquiry hearings

Two senior national security officials will open Tuesday’s hearings by recalling their alarm as they listened in real time to Trump appeal for investigations into...

November 13, 2019 at 5:37 pm

Impeachment Hearings Open With Revelation on Trump’s Ukraine Pressure

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives opened historic impeachment hearings on Wednesday and took startling new testimony from a senior American diplomat that further implicated...

November 8, 2019 at 5:54 pm

Bolton Dangles Vital Knowledge of an Effort to Pressure Ukraine

WASHINGTON — John R. Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, knows about “many relevant meetings and conversations” connected to a pressure campaign on...

October 17, 2019 at 7:38 pm

Mulvaney Says, Then Denies, That Trump Held Back Ukraine Aid as Quid Pro Quo

WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, threw the Trump administration’s defense against impeachment into disarray Thursday when he said that...

Michael McKinley, right, the top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, arrives for a joint interview with the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) DCSW102 DCSW102

October 16, 2019 at 11:24 am

Former top State Dept. aide reportedly quit over Ukraine

Michael McKinley’s testimony was the latest in a string of accounts given by top career diplomats and administration officials to impeachment investigators about how experts...

September 26, 2019 at 7:05 pm

Complaint Asserts White House Tried to ‘Lock Down’ Call Records

WASHINGTON — Senior White House officials tried to “lock down” a record of President Donald Trump’s call with the president of Ukraine in an attempted...

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FILE — Rohingya refugees in the Thaingkhali camp in Bangladesh, March 1, 2018. The White House is considering a plan that would effectively bar refugees from most parts of the world from resettling in the United States by cutting back the decades-old program that admits tens of thousands of people each year who are fleeing war, persecution and famine, according to current and former administration officials. (Adriane Ohanesian/The New York Times) XNYT122

September 6, 2019 at 10:25 am

Trump administration considering sharp cut in number of refugees allowed to enter U.S.

The issue is expected to come to a head on Tuesday, when the White House will set the annual, presidentially determined ceiling on refugee admissions...

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July 2, 2019 at 11:05 am

Trump says homelessness problem began 2 years ago, and he is looking to solve it

President Donald Trump said he was “looking very seriously” at U.S. cities that he asserted were overrun with mentally ill and “sick” homeless people who...