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WASHINGTON (AP) — House impeachment investigators are issuing subpoenas to three more Trump administration officials. They’re demanding that the three testify in their probe of President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukrainian leaders to seek damaging information about Democratic political opponents. The chairs of the three investigating House committees have issued subpoenas to two officials of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to give the House secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, handing a victory to Democrats who want it for the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump. The ruling from Chief U.S.

Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, and both of Massachusetts’ US senators expressed support for striking Dedham teachers on Friday, with Sanders tweeting, “This takes courage.” The expressions of support came as Dedham teachers picketed in the first formal public school teacher strike in Massachusetts in 12 years.

WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer and a key figure in the impeachment inquiry, managed to inadvertently telephone an NBC News reporter at 11 p.m. one night this month and leave a lengthy voice message filled with snippets of an overheard conversation. In the muffled recording — left Oct. 16 with NBC reporter Rich Schapiro — Giuliani, the chairman of a security consulting firm, can be heard discussing business in Turkey and Bahrain.

Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon has returned from exile to defend MORE, believing the presidency is imperiled and that Trump is in urgent need of a more robust defense against the House impeachment inquiry. Bannon spent the past two years on a journey to spark populist movements at hotspots around the world after he was banished from Trump’s inner circle and cut off from Breitbart News, where he was executive chairman, for trash-talking members of the president’s family to author Michael Wolff in the book “Fire and Fury.” Now the impeachment fight h

White House officials delayed a trade agreement with Ukraine in late August, around the same time The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The decision came after then-national security adviser MORE that President Trump would likely oppose any assistance to Kiev, the Post reported.  The decision suggests the Trump administration's actions toward Ukraine went beyond holding up the $400 million in security-related aid.

The Justice Department has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into its own Russia probe The New York Times reports.  The newspaper reports that after former special counsel John H. Durham, to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, people familiar with the matter told the Times. It would also enable Durham, a U.S.

Hundreds of lawmakers from both parties came together Thursday in the Capitol to honor the late Rep.

It’s the multitrillion dollar question everyone is trying to answer, including Sen. MORE (D-Mass.): How do you pay for “Medicare for All,” a proposal that would dramatically reshape the entire U.S.

The Washington Post, citing several House Democrats, reports that the so-called “whistleblower’s” testimony is no longer a priority in the wake of testimonies delivered by Ukraine’s top diplomat, William Taylor, and former National Security Council senior director Fiona Hill, before congressional investigators. Taylor told lawmakers that Gordon Sondland, U.S.