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Speculation is increasing about the defense team being assembled by the White House as MORE stares down an impeachment trial in the GOP-controlled Senate.  While Speaker MORE's (D-Calif.) decision to delay transmitting the articles of impeachment has created uncertainty around the contours and timing of the trial, it's still widely expected the Senate will begin the proceedings in January. The Trump administration has disclosed very little about its forthcoming defense apart from signaling that White House counsel Pat Cipollone will play a si

Civil rights icon Rep. MORE (D-Ga.) said on Sunday that he has been diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer and will undergo treatment soon. “I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now," the 79-year-old congressman said in a statement detailing his prognosis on Sunday afternoon. “This month in a routine medical visit, and subsequent tests, doctors discovered Stage IV pancreatic cancer.

Senate Democrats are bracing for MORE to seize on the outcome of the upcoming impeachment trial as a source of momentum for his reelection bid. With 67 votes needed to convict and remove Trump from office, the trial’s outcome is largely pre-baked since Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the chamber. Democrats are worried that an acquittal will only embolden the president, and they feel powerless to prevent it.  “No matter what we do, the president is going to say he did nothing wrong,” said Sen.

A six-time deported illegal alien has been arrested for allegedly killing a 51-year-old Colorado grandmother after being released from local law enforcement custody. Juan Sanchez, a Mexican illegal alien who has already been deported from the United States six times over the last decade, was arrested last week and charged with vehicular homicide and fleeing the scene of an accident after he allegedly hit and killed Annette Conquering Bear, a grandmother, while she was walking home from Walgreens, 9 News

Just under two weeks after the November 5, 2017, Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooting, Joe Biden criticized the fact that a good guy used an AR-15 to stop the shooter. During a November 14, 2017, appearance on Today, an audience member asked Biden how he “could justify the Democrat view on gun control when the shooter was stopped by a man who was legally licensed to carry a gun.” Ryan Saavedra posted a video of Biden’s response wherein he criticized the fact that the good guy with the gun used an AR-15 to stop the church shooting. On November 5, 2017, the Sutherland Springs shoo

In the 24 hours since a man attacked a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, New York, the left is blaming Donald Trump for inciting the kind of antisemitism that led to the crime. Grafton Thomas was arrested for stabbing five people and has been charged with multiple counts of attempted murder, but some are targeting Trump. The Washington Post on Sunday cited Trump’s critics in its report on the stabbings: The article named one Democrat who blamed Trump directly: Rep.

A good guy with a gun shot an alleged church shooter in White Settlement, Texas, Sunday morning. UPDATE 2: The Dallas Morning News reports that the person critically wounded in the White Settlement church shooting has died. This brings the death toll to two innocents.

NEW LONDON, Wis.—After it was clear that neither of her preferred candidates, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz, was going to be elected president in 2016, Linda Behm prayed. Behm is an evangelical Christian and keeps a calendar filled with volunteer shifts at a thrift store and a food pantry in this small community an hour away from Green Bay. She wasn’t sure about supporting Donald J. Trump, the New York business magnate with a penchant for insults and crude behavior.

Mirroring her recent tumble in the polls, Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign disclosed on Friday that she’s facing a sharp drop in fund-raising in the last quarter of the year and made a last-minute appeal to supporters to close some of the gap. $24.6 million in the third quarter, a roughly 31 percent drop. “If the numbers don’t pick up, we run the risk of having to pull back plans to organize for Elizabeth Warren in all 50 states during the primary,” her campaign said in the e-mail.

IOWA CITY — Joe Biden, expanding on his remarks a day earlier that he would not comply with a subpoena to testify in President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate, wrote on Twitter on Saturday that there would not be “any legal basis” for such a subpoena. Speaking with reporters Saturday, Biden stopped short of vowing to fight a subpoena if one were ultimately issued.