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The committee is planning to investigate payments former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made to two women who allege they had affairs with the president more than a decade ago, and whether the investigation into Cohen was obstructed. The Washington Post, which first reported the plan, called it a “new chapter” in the quest to impeach Trump. Two Democrats said they expect to see the committee draft articles of impeachment soon. “I would bet that before mid-October, there will be actual articles of impeachment drafted by the committee. I don’t think there’s much doubt about that,” Rep.

Last month, Chinese officials announced that they would be retaliating against the U.S. by imposing five to ten percent tariffs on $75 billion worth of American goods — a response to Trump imposing new tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese products in September and December.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has written a new book for children. The book out Tuesday is called ‘‘Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You.’’ It’s about children growing up with different life challenges, including autism, blindness and Down syndrome. Sotomayor was diagnosed with diabetes at age 7 and is one of the child characters in the book. Sotomayor has come out with a string of books over the last year. Her memoir, ‘‘My Beloved World,’’ came out in 2013.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a major defeat in Parliament on Tuesday night as rebellious lawmakers voted to seize control of the Brexit agenda. The prime minister immediately said he would call for a new general election. The 328 to 301 vote cleared the way for Johnson’s opponents to introduce a bill Wednesday that would prevent Britain from leaving the European Union without a deal Oct.

Senator Joe Manchin III, a Democrat, announced Tuesday that he will stay in the Senate and not run for governor in West Virginia, passing on a challenge to a Republican incumbent strongly backed by President Trump. Manchin, 72, served as governor from 2005 to 2010, and last year considered retiring from the Senate before reluctantly agreeing to seek reelection in a state that Trump carried handily in the 2016 presidential race.

Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday released a plan to address climate change by transitioning the nation to 100 percent clean energy in a decade, pledging to adopt a key goal of former Democratic presidential campaign rival Jay Inslee and calling on the rest of the primary field to do the same. Warren released her plan on the website Medium ahead of CNN’s town hall-style climate change forum Wednesday.

MORE on Monday night blasted ABC News for the network's reporting on his claims that Hurricane Dorian was expected to impact Alabama. “Such a phony hurricane report by lightweight reporter @ABCWorldNews,” Trump tweeted, targeting the network’s chief White House correspondent.

Tuesday will mark exactly five months until the Iowa caucuses, the first contest in the Democratic nominating process for president. It’s a milestone that also signals the campaign becoming more competitive. Ten candidates are slated to debate in Houston on Sept. 12, the first time all the leading contenders will be on the same stage together. That means the “air war” will soon begin in earnest. The race’s front-runner, former Vice President MORE (D-Calif.) have already run TV ads in Iowa.

MORE may soon have to decide which group of supporters he likes more: farmers or the oil and gas industry. The escalating standoff between ethanol producers and the oil and gas industry is shaping up to be a case study in the challenges of trying to satisfy competing interests in one’s political base.