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Even in the volatile Trump era, this was an extraordinary and historic week in Washington.  The House voted to condemn a sitting president for “racist” tweets. The Speaker’s words were stricken from the record only to be restored minutes later in a controversial vote.

Green boasted that he got 95 Democrats to support moving forward with his impeachment resolution, which he said was up from 58 the first time he introduced articles of impeachment in 2017 and 66 the second time in 2018. “We are marching on to 212,” Green said. “We are marching on until victory is won.”

Cohen pleaded guilty last year to violating campaign finance law by arranging payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, and Playboy centerfold Karen McDougal after they claimed they had affairs with President Trump. The president denies the allegations. In May, Cohen began a three-year stint in federal prison. The U.S.

Trump says it’s the latest “hostile” action by Iran. He’s calling on other countries to condemn what he says are Iran’s attempts to disrupt the freedom of navigation and global commerce in the strategic waterway in the Persian Gulf region. Trump says the USS Boxer took defensive action after the drone closed to within 1,000 yards of the warship and ignored multiple calls to stand down. The president says the drone threatened the safety of the American ship and its crew. Iran recently shot down a U.S. drone that it said was flying over Iran.

All Republicans present voted against the resolution, and were joined by four Democrats — Reps. Anthony Brindisi (NY), Jared Golden (ME), Conor Lamb (PA), and Jefferson Van Drew (NJ). All other Democrats and Rep.

Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal endorsed Representative Seth Moulton’s presidential bid Thursday. The former commander in Afghanistan told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he got home from a trip and turned on the television, only to see chants of “send her back” directed at Representative Ilhan Omar at a rally hosted by President Trump in North Carolina. McChrystal said that reinforced for him that “leadership in our country is first and foremost about character,” before adding that Moulton would “be the best president for our nation.” “He’s be

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — President Donald Trump weighed in on the upheaval in crisis-stricken Puerto Rico on Thursday, tweeting harsh words for the territory’s leadership a day after thousands protested to demand the governor resign over leaked chats showing him making misogynistic slurs and mocking constituents. ‘‘A lot of bad things are happening in Puerto Rico,’’ Trump tweeted, adding that ‘‘The Governor is under siege’’ and deriding San Juan Mayor Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, a frequent critic of the president, as ‘‘a despicable and incompetent person who I wouldn’t trus

WASHINGTON — After two years of Republicans’ unsuccessful attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Democrats won back the House majority in 2018 with a unified focus on health care. Now the scalpels are out, and the issue is swiftly becoming one of the clearest dividing lines in the Democratic presidential primary. In dueling speeches and barely veiled potshots this week, former vice president Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders ratcheted up the debate over whether to shore up Barack Obama’s signature achievement by creating an option to choose healt

ATLANTA — The second set of summer Democratic presidential debates will feature a rematch with a twist, plus the first showdown of leading progressives as the party wrestles with its philosophical identity and looks ahead to a 2020 fight against President Trump. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris of California will take center stage July 31, barely a month after Harris jolted the sprawling field in the first debates and propelled herself to clear top tier status with an aggressive takedown of the 76-year-old Biden’s long record on race. CN