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MORE (D-Mass.) overtakes him in some polls. Trump and his allies are placing a big bet that they can tear Biden down by implicating him in a Ukraine scandal that has engulfed the administration and provoked House Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry. The Trump campaign is putting millions of dollars behind Biden-Ukraine ads in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, with the sole intention of damaging him among Democrats in the early-voting states. Warren’s rise has also become a real threat to Biden, whose front-runner status is being challenged in earn

McCarthy explained Schiff should now be considered a “fact witness” in the broader investigation of these matters given his and his staff’s role in coordinating with the whistleblower over the summer. McCarthy said the pair of major revelations this week—first that Schiff’s staff met with the whistleblower before he or she reported concerns to the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), and second that the whistleblower

The library is located in Richfield, Minnesota, King’s hometown, where he is considered a local celebrity. According to Alpha News, King, aka “Miss Richfield 1981,” read several books to young children during the event, including Neither, a book that is now interpreted as

Those laws helped prolong a bitter but unsuccessful four year legal fight by proponents of segregation that ended in the fall of 1960, but fueled the racial animosity captured in the iconic 1964 Norman Rockwell painting, “The Problem We All Live With,” which was inspired by a 1960 photograph of a young black girl, Ruby Bridges, walking to her newly integrated New Orleans public school accompanied by federal marshals.

“I thought the president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent.

Mitt Romney is in President Trump’s crosshairs Saturday morning, after the Utah senator (and former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential nominee) criticized Trump. On Saturday afternoon, Trump tweeted: Romney, who has been one of the few Republican voices that has been critical of Trump, had tweeted about the president Friday. Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican, also was critical of Trump, saying in a statement to the Omaha World-Herald: ‘‘Americans don’t look to Chinese commies for the truth.

RENO — Representative Mark Amodei was not prepared for the backlash from his fellow Republicans when he said Congress needed to “follow the facts” and look into whether President Trump should be impeached. Newspapers declared he was breaking ranks. Conservative constituents branded him a traitor: “I’m Brutus, and Trump’s Julius Caesar,” he said. In short order, he was forced to explain himself to the Trump campaign’s political director, top House Republicans, and the acting White House chief of staff.

AUGUSTA, Maine — It is ‘‘completely inappropriate’’ for a president to encourage a foreign state to investigate a political rival, US Senator Susan Collins of Maine said Saturday. Addressing reporters after a memorial service for firefighters, the Maine Republican was asked what she thought about President Trump asking China to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. ‘‘I thought the president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent,’’ she said.