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BALTIMORE — The city of Baltimore, joined by the leading luminaries of the Democratic Party, said goodbye Friday to the late Rep.

The Pentagon announced Friday that it has awarded its $10 billion "war cloud" computing contract to Microsoft over rival Amazon. The announcement from the Department of Defense (DOD) marked a surprising turn of events — for months, Amazon was viewed as the favorite to win the contract amid an increasingly political lobbying battle. The Pentagon said that awarding Microsoft the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract (JEDI) "continues our strategy of a multi-vendor, multi-cloud environment," adding that "the department’s needs are diverse and cannot be met by any single supplier." "Tod

House Democrats have subpoenaed three Trump administration officials for depositions as part of their impeachment inquiry into MORE's dealings with Ukraine, lawmakers announced Friday. House Intelligence Committee Chairman MORE (D-Calif.) issued subpoenas for two officials with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and one State Department official. Schiff subpoenaed Michael Duffey, OMB’s associate director for National Security Programs, and OMB Acting Director Russell Vought to give depositio

MORE on Friday dismissed the need for a bolstered team to defend him against House Democrats' impeachment inquiry. "Here’s the thing. I don’t have teams. Everyone’s talking about teams. I’m the team. I did nothing wrong," Trump told reporters outside the White House before leaving for an event in South Carolina. The comment came as part of a lengthy rant against the impeachment inquiry, which Trump derided as a "phony deal" focused on a "perfect" call he had with the Ukrainian president.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) must hand over to Congress certain redacted information from MORE. The opinion from D.C.

In addition, there will only be one copy of each transcript available. No further printed or electronic versions will be provided. Those are the rules under which Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the committee chair, is proceeding, according to Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal, who interviewed committee member Rep.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced a resolution Thursday night to condemn House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) secretive impeachment inquiry proceedings. Graham announced Friday that the resolution had gained 50 cosponsors across the

In a letter to Barr, the panel’s ten Democrats accused the attorney general of having an “appearance of a conflict of interest” and urged him to recuse himself from all Ukraine-related affairs, which includes the department’s investigation into matters related to President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and his associates, Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas, who were recently indicted on campaign finance charges. “Impartial enforcement of the law is essential to give the American public confidence in the Justice Department’s work.

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Dale King rumbled into the parking lot in his military Jeep, a black 1940s-style clunker that he maneuvered with a skull-tipped stick shift. Heavy metal music blasted from the garage that he and some friends had converted to a gym for the neighboring addiction center. Patients from next door were packed inside wearing worn T-shirts, faded athletic gear, and other hand-me-downs. Half the class were barefoot.