As Rep. Adam Schiff concluded his lengthy impeachment opening argument Wednesday afternoon, the California Democrat was speaking to plenty of empty chairs in the Senate chamber.
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Got milk: GOP pols drink dairy on Senate floor, following strict impeachment rules
Several Republican senators watching the ongoing impeachment trial of President Trump over the past two days have apparently been taking their mother’s advice to drink their milk.
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Jim Inhofe says wife is ‘progressing nicely’ after minor stroke
Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said Tuesday that his wife, Kay, had suffered a “minor stroke” last week but is “progressing nicely.”
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Democracy 2020 Digest: New shots fired in Biden-Sanders Social Security feud
There’s no letup in the brawl between Democratic presidential front-runners Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden over the former’s repeated claims that Biden years ago pushed to make cuts in Social Security.
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Majority of Democratic voters support single-day national primary
Nearly six in ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents questioned in a new Monmouth University survey supported dramatically changing the current system of choosing their party’s presidential nominee
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Bernie joins Biden at the top
All while Warren continues to drop.
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How Trump has reshaped the federal judiciary, 3 years into his presidency
Three years into President Trump’s term, the Senate has confirmed 192 Trump-appointed federal judges. But what does that mean for the country’s judicial system?
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Trump Senate impeachment trial live updates: Democrats make opening statements
Democratic House managers will make their opening statements on Wednesday as part of President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.
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Bloomberg’s ad spending up to a quarter-billion dollars
To date, Bloomberg’s dished out a massive $248 million to run ads since declaring his candidacy for president in late November, according to the latest data from the ad-tracking firm Advertising Analytics.
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DHS boss warns caravan migrants will be sent home if they reach US, amid reports of violence
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on Wednesday warned migrants traveling north through Central America as part of the latest caravan that they will not be allowed into the U.S., and that the safety of Americans is the priority — amid reports of violence from members of the caravan.
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Sanders, Biden battle for lead in new national polls
Two new national surveys released Wednesday point to the race for the Democratic presidential nomination turning into a two-candidate battle between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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NRSC releases impeachment trial hype video: ‘The Senate exists for moments like this’
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign group dedicated to boosting GOP numbers in the Senate, released a slickly produced video Tuesday to mark the start of President Trump’s impeachment trial.
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Trump, in Davos, appears confident of Senate impeachment trial outcome: ‘We have a great case’
President Trump voiced optimism regarding the Senate impeachment trial as he arrived for a breakfast meeting with American CEOs and business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday morning.
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OMB releases 192 pages of Ukraine-related documents minutes before midnight
The Office of Management and Budget late Tuesday released a batch of documents related to Ukraine as the opening day of President Trump’s impeachment trial stretched into the early-morning hours.
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Murkowski says she called Trump to reassure she doesn’t ‘hate’ him
Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, told a home-state newspaper that in late 2019, she called President Trump to reassure him after he reportedly told attendees at an event that the moderate lawmaker “hates” him, the paper reported Tuesday.
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Gabbard, Yang, other Democrats slam Clinton remarks on Sanders as petulant, divisive
Democrats including 2020 presidential hopefuls Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang were firing back at Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night, hours after her remarks about Bernie Sanders in an upcoming documentary were published by The Hollywood Reporter.
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Los Angeles’ Garcetti to meet with HUD Secretary Carson to talk homelessness: report
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is reportedly flying to Washington, D.C., late Tuesday to meet with Ben Carson, the head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, to discuss the homelessness, a report said.
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Schumer vows ‘we will not back down’ at Senate’s Trump impeachment trial, as GOP shoots down Dems’ amendments
The Senate entered an unusual closed session late Tuesday, after the chamber handed President Trump a major win by voting along party lines to effectively kill three proposals from Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to subpoena White House, State Department, and Office of Management and Budget documents — even as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made some tweaks that were likely to assuage Democrats’ concerns over scheduling.
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Hillary Clinton responds to uproar after bashing Sanders: ‘I will do whatever I can to support our nominee’
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have walked back her strong opposition to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., after she suggested that she would not support her 2016 rival if he were to win the Democratic nomination in 2020 as he did for her candidacy.
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2020 election: Lower-tier Democrats still fighting in the primaries
With the first presidential primary just weeks away, the list of Democratic candidates remains one of the most crowded in decades.
