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January 18, 2020 at 9:50 am

Trump team, House managers trade sharp views on impeachment

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's legal team issued a fiery response Saturday ahead of opening arguments in his impeachment trial, while House Democrats laid... Updated 11:17 am

FILE – In this Dec. 2, 2019 file photo, Attorney Alan Dershowitz leaves federal court, in New York. President Donald Trump’s legal team will include former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, the former independent counsel who led the Whitewater investigation into President Bill Clinton, according to a person familiar with the matter. The team will also include Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general.(AP Photo/Richard Drew) WX102 WX102

January 17, 2020 at 7:13 am

Trump assembles a made-for-TV impeachment defense team

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has assembled a made-for-TV legal team for his Senate trial that includes household names like Ken Starr, the prosecutor...

January 16, 2020 at 7:20 am

Watchdog: White House violated law in freezing Ukraine aid

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine, an action at the center of President Donald Trump's impeachment,...

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January 15, 2020 at 4:05 pm

Trump’s defenders to play to many audiences in Senate trial

WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions watching on television, 100 senators seated silently in the Capitol, one man in the Oval Office with a twitchy Twitter finger....

January 13, 2020 at 9:04 pm

US officials cite deterrence to defend lethal drone strike

WASHINGTON (AP) — For all of the Trump administration’s insistence that the threat of an “imminent” attack led to the American drone strike on Iran’s...

Flowers and tributes are placed outside the Iranian Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, with a poster that reads: “Tehran – Kyiv, we’re mourning” for the victims of the Ukrainian 737-800 plane that crashed on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, and a photo of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani who was killed by U.S. airstrike in Iraq. Iran on Friday denied Western allegations that one of its own missiles downed a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed outside Tehran, and called on the U.S. and Canada to share any information they have on the crash, which killed all 176 people on board. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) XAZ112 XAZ112

January 9, 2020 at 9:31 pm

US blames Iran for Ukrainian jetliner downing, pledges probe VIEW

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. promised “appropriate action” Friday in response to its assessment that an Iranian missile was responsible for downing a Ukrainian jetliner...

FILE – In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 file photo debris at the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. Two U.S. officials said Thursday that it was â€œhighly likelyâ€ that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board. President Donald Trump is suggesting he believes Iran was responsible. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) TH121 TH121

January 8, 2020 at 10:00 pm

Iranians shot down airliner, Western leaders declare VIEW

WASHINGTON (AP) — It is “highly likely” that Iran shot down the civilian Ukrainian jetliner that crashed near Tehran late Tuesday, killing all 176 people...

Nation & World

January 7, 2020 at 9:10 pm

US, Iran step back from the brink; region still on edge

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and Iran stepped back from the brink of possible war on Wednesday as President Donald Trump signaled he would not...

Nation & World

January 7, 2020 at 3:43 pm

Trump campaign seizes on Soleimani killing

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump once warned Barack Obama not to “play the Iran card” to boost his political prospects by starting a war. Eight...

January 7, 2020 at 2:54 pm

Dueling Trump, Bloomberg 2020 ads to air during Super Bowl

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans looking for an escape from the nation's politically charged political environment won't find it in next month's Super Bowl. Dueling ads...

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