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The December 6, 2019, Naval Air Station Pensacola attack reminded us once more that gun-free policies on military installations make U.S.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is refusing to rule out rewarding some of his top political donors with ambassadorships if elected in 2020. Biden, who is facing questions from voters about his son’s lucrative business dealings overseas, told reporters aboard his “No Malarkey” bus tour of Iowa on Friday he would make appointments based on merit, and would not hold it against anyone if they helped underwrite his campaign. “I’m going to appoint the best people possible,”

The House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment report Saturday on the constitutional and legal grounds for impeachment failed to cite any of the testimony from the “expert” witnesses who testified on Wednesday. The report, signed by 20 members of the Democratic majority staff, appears to have been written in advance of that hearing.

The House Judiciary Committee released a report Saturday in which it argued that a president may be impeached for “illegitimate motives” even if his actions are “legally permissible.” The 52-page report, written by 20 members of the staff for the Democratic majority, attempts to provide a legal and constitutional basis for the Democrats’ ongoing effort to impeach the president. The report states: “The question is not whether the President’s conduct could have resulted fr

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.

Though she seems to promise a fight at every turn, Elizabeth Warren has mostly refrained from attacking her fellow Democratic presidential candidates. But this week, the Massachusetts senator showed a new willingness to counterpunch, and her first target was a candidate who preaches about the need for unity: Pete Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is rising in the polls after excoriating Warren’s health care plan. The exchange marks the first time Warren has hit back directly at Buttigieg after months of simmering tensions that started when he c

Though she seems to promise a fight at every turn, Elizabeth Warren has mostly refrained from attacking her fellow Democratic presidential candidates. But this week, the Massachusetts senator showed a new willingness to counterpunch, and her first target was a candidate who preaches about the need for unity: Pete Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is rising in the polls after excoriating Warren’s health care plan. The exchange marks the first time Warren has hit back directly at Buttigieg after months of simmering tensions that started when he c

WASHINGTON (AP) — Previewing potential articles of impeachment, the House Democrats on Saturday issued a lengthy report drawing on history and the Founding Fathers to lay out the legal argument over the case against President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. The findings from the House Judiciary Committee do not spell out the formal charges against the president, which are being drafted ahead of votes, possibly as soon as next week.

WASHINGTON — Far from any television camera and a half world away from Ukraine, a few dozen Democratic staff aides, lawyers, and House members are grinding away this weekend in a loose clump of Capitol Hill offices, the beating heart of the impeachment operation against President Trump. In cramped spaces in the Rayburn and Longworth House Office Buildings, as well as the speaker’s suite, the final articles of impeachment are being incubated in the shadow of the Capitol dome.

The White House and Congress have reached a tentative agreement to grant 12 weeks of paid parental leave to all federal workers, according to a congressional source, in what would be a historic deal. A draft for a must-pass defense policy bill includes language that would grant the paid leave for 2.1 million civilians who work for the government to care for a new baby after birth, adoption or the initiation of foster care. The draft was first reported by