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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is reportedly considering an investigation into the former Vice President, according to sources that spoke to the Washington Post.

WASHINGTON — Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire defended his decision not to immediately share with Congress an extraordinary complaint by an intelligence community whistle-blower alleging that President Trump used his office to solicit interference by a foreign country in the 2020 US elections. Maguire told members of the House Intelligence Committee that he supported the right of the whistle-blower, whose complaint helped touch an impeachment inquiry, to raise concerns with an intelligence community watchdog. But much of the complaint conc

A spotlight has been shined on the country of Ukraine and its newly-minted leader, as impeachment inquiry. Amid all the news involving Ukraine, here are some interesting tidbits about the country. 1. A part of it is (disputedly) the geographical center of Europe Several countries have staked claims on the title — and Ukraine is one of them.

NEW YORK — The Trump administration wants to cap the number of refugees admitted into the United States to the lowest number since the resettlement program was created in 1980. A State Department proposal released Thursday would put a cap on the number of refugees at 18,000 for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. Last year, the administration placed the cap at a record low of 30,000.

WASHINGTON — White House officials took extraordinary steps to ‘‘lock down’’ information about President Trump’s summertime phone call with the president of Ukraine, even moving the transcript to a secret computer system, a whistle-blower alleges in a politically explosive complaint that accuses the administration of a wide-ranging cover-up. The whistle-blower, in a 9-page document released Thursda

WASHINGTON — Bookended by dry discussions of the legal definition of the word “urgent,” the country’s top intelligence officer made an admission Thursday that Democrats can carry like a banner into battle as they launch an impeachment inquiry in the coming weeks. “I think the whistle-blower did the right thing,” acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire said under questioning during an occasionally tense House Intelligence Committee hearing. The three-hour session provided the first glimpse into House Democrats’ freshly opened inquiry, which center

Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday offered broad descriptions of the whistleblower complaint at the center of the Trump-Ukraine scandal, describing the document as both troubling and credible. The White House agreed to allow Congress to view the complaint amid growing public pressure for details surrounding MORE and his son.

Speaker MORE escalates the tensions between the parties — and marks a huge gamble by House Democrats heading into the high-stakes 2020 elections. While the strategy has quickly invigorated the party’s liberal base, it’s also empowered GOP attacks that Democrats are attempting to nullify the results of the 2016 presidential election through an impeachment process that remains underwater in national opinion polls. Some moderate Democrats on Capitol Hill are sounding a warning that, by launching head-first into impeachment, party leaders risk alienating voters in the ver

House Democrats are debating whether to focus their impeachment inquiry almost exclusively on MORE. But doing so could run the risk of frustrating lawmakers in the 235-member caucus who called for impeachment long before a whistleblower complaint was filed raising concerns about Trump’s interactions with Ukraine. Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) is discussing the idea with her leadership team because some members have pressed her to narrow the scope to the Ukraine controversy, a Democratic leadership aide told The Hill. “We all feel strongly that the

The whistleblower complaint at the center of the political firestorm involving MORE's contacts with Ukraine's leader has been declassified, a member of the House Intelligence Committee announced late Wednesday. "BREAKING NEWS: The whistleblower complaint has been declassified. I encourage you all to read it," tweeted Rep.