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WASHINGTON — A senior staff member on Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign has been fired after complaints of “inappropriate behavior,” a Warren spokeswoman said. Rich McDaniel, the national organizing director, was dismissed after the campaign hired an outside investigator to look into the matter, said Kristen Orthman, Warren’s communications director “Over the past two weeks, senior campaign leadership received multiple complaints regarding inappropriate behavior by Rich McDaniel,” Orthman said.

LAS VEGAS — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had a heart attack, his campaign confirmed Friday as the Vermont senator was released from a Nevada hospital. The 78-year-old was at a campaign event Tuesday when he experienced chest discomfort and was taken to a hospital where he was diagnosed with a heart attack. The senator was transferred to Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center where doctors inserted two stents to open up a blocked artery in his heart, according to a statement from the Las Vegas doctors. The doctors, Arturo Marchand Jr.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Representative Elaine Luria’s decision to support an impeachment inquiry into President Trump wasn’t just about his political future. It also put hers on the line. She is a moderate Democrat who last year narrowly won the congressional seat for southeastern Virginia, a district dominated by the largest Navy base and carried by Trump in 2016. Supporting an impeachment effort could seriously endanger her reelection and she had for months declined to do so.

WASHINGTON — The impeachment inquiry is reaching directly into the White House, with Democrats subpoenaing officials about contacts with Ukraine and President Donald Trump signaling his administration will not cooperate. The demand for documents Friday capped a tumultuous week that widened the constitutional battle between the executive branch and Congress and heightened the political standoff with more witnesses, testimony and documents to come. Trump said he would formally object to Congress about the House impeachment inquiry, even as he acknowledged that Dem

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The Democratic chairmen of three House panels on Thursday night released text message exchanges between several Trump administration officials regarding the administration's dealings with Ukraine. House Democrats argued in a letter that the messages underscore the administration's efforts to get Ukraine to pursue an investigation into MORE's political rivals, an issue at the heart of the chamber's impeachment inquiry. The letter contains mo

MORE and his son amid growing concerns over how Trump has used his position to pressure foreign governments to look into his political rivals. “I would think that if they were honest about it they’d start a major investigation into the Bidens,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked what he wanted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do about the Bidens following the July 25 call between the two leaders. That call triggered an intelligence community whistleblower complaint and is at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into the president.

House Democrats late Thursday released text message exchanges between several Trump administration officials that they argued underscored the administration's efforts to pressure Ukraine to pursue investigations into MORE's political rivals. The text message exchanges show administration officials indicating that a meeting between the Ukrainian president and Trump was contingent on investigations requested by the U.S., and in one case raising concerns about the delay of military aid for Ukraine. The exchanges broadly highlight the extent to which the Trump administrat

Both parties wasted no time digging in on Thursday following Congress's first witness interview related to MORE's dealings with Ukraine, the topic that now stands at the forefront of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry. Emerging from a nearly 10-hour deposition in the Capitol basement, Republican and Democratic members offered decidedly different takes regarding testimony from MORE, who resigned last week as Trump's special envoy to Ukraine. Democrats said Volker validated previous claims from a government whistleblower that the president had

“In 2016, the American people elected President Trump and I for many reasons: get the economy moving again, to rebuild our military, but they also elected us to drain the swamp,” Pence said in an interview with the Arizona Republic. Pence was traveling Thursday in Arizona, campaigning for U.S.