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President Donald Trump flipped the coin to start the Army vs. Navy football game on Saturday, as he personally attended the game in Philadelphia. “It is obviously with great pride and great honor to welcome our commander in chief the president of the United States, President Donald J.

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. — The kettle steamed in the background as a familiar yet painful argument began to boil over between father and daughter in the Slewo home last Inauguration Day. “My president is going to be good for the Christians and the economy,” Warda Slewo, an ardent Donald Trump fan, told his daughter, Ashourina Slewo, in her small kitchen in the northeastern suburbs of Detroit on Jan. 20, 2017. “Your president is a racist,” Ashourina shot back.

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.

WASHINGTON — Even as the House Judiciary Committee prepared to vote on articles of impeachment, Lindsey Graham was in a backroom trying to cut a last-minute deal. If the president fully admitted what he had done, he could head off charges of high crimes and misdemeanors. Graham scribbled on a piece of paper what the president had to say. As the president came before cameras at the White House, members of the committee suspended their meeting to watch on television. But while he generally admitted wrongdoing, he did not go far enough for Graham.

HENNIKER, N.H. — Sheila Rose-Switzer, 74, traveled to a nearby college campus last week to see Pete Buttigieg, the youngest Democrat running for president. Surrounded by more seniors than college students, the snowy-haired Rose-Switzer realized during Buttigieg’s 20-minute speech that she had found her candidate in a politician half her age. “He’s youthful like JFK was,” she said after the town hall at New England College, recalling watching President John F. Kennedy on TV in the early 1960s, when he was in his 40s and she was in high school.

MORE on Friday said House Democrats are “trivializing impeachment” after a House committee voted along party lines to approve articles of impeachment against him over his dealings with Ukraine. "You're trivializing impeachment,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez. “And I tell you what, someday there will be a Democrat president and there will be a Republican House, and I suspect they're going to remember it,” he added. Trump hammered the House impeachment inquiry as a “hoax” and a “sham,” claiming Democrats are trying

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear appeals from MORE in three cases involving efforts to gain access to his financial records, setting up a landmark separation of powers showdown. The justices will hear arguments in March in cases that pit Trump against Democratic-led House committees, as well as a Manhattan district attorney.

Vulnerable House Democrats are falling in line to vote for articles of impeachment against MORE despite expressing nervousness in recent days about what will be their most momentous vote this year.  Two freshman Democrats joined colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee in backing the two articles of impeachment in Friday’s 23-17 panel vote, and a steady stream of fellow swing-district Democrats have been announcing their plans to support them. “A president coercing a foreign government into targeting American citizens is not just another example of scorched earth p

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment Friday that charge MORE with high crimes and misdemeanors, setting up a historic House vote next week that all but guarantees Trump will be just the third president to be impeached in U.S. history. The articles, which charge Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, were passed out of the committee along strict party lines, with 23 Democrats voting to send the measures to the full House, which is expected to approve them next week. One Democrat, Rep.