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Speaker Nancy Pelosi is using the same partisan power tactics to jam impeachment through the House of Representatives in 2019 that she used to pass Obamacare on a straight party line vote in March 2010. “For the first time in U.S. history, a huge piece of legislation has passed with only one party’s votes,” Jamie Weinman wrote at Macleans on March 21, 2010. “All the big initiatives of Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency, like civil rights and Medicare, passed with votes from both parties.

Two armed robbers and two innocents are dead after a UPS truck was hijacked and involved in a police chase from Miami to Miramar, Florida. The Miami Herald reports that events unfolded Thursday afternoon after an attempted robbery of a jewelry store ended with the hijacking of a UPS truck. A shootout with police occurred on Miramar Parkway near Flamingo Road at approximately 5:30 p.m.

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 — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bristled over a question Thursday about whether she “hates” President Trump. Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference Thursday that as a Catholic, she resents the suggestion that she hates anyone.

Former vice president Joe Biden got into a heated exchange with an attendee at a town hall event in Iowa on Thursday after the man told Biden he was too old to be president and brought up his son, Hunter Biden. “You’re too old for the job. I’m 83, and I know damn well I don’t have the mental faculties I did 10 years ago,” the voter, who identified himself as a retired Iowa farmer, said before turning to Ukraine. “We all know Trump has been messing around with Ukraine over there,” he said.

Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden got into an extraordinary exchange Thursday afternoon with an Iowa farmer who first called him too old to run and then challenged him on Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine, triggering Biden to call the man ‘‘a damn liar.’’ During an event in New Hampton, Iowa, the man rose to say he had two issues with Biden’s candidacy. ‘‘You’re damn near as old as I am,’’ the man started.

Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan apologized on Wednesday after she received backlash for mentioning MORE's 13-year-old son, Barron Trump, during the impeachment hearing.  "I want to apologize for what I said earlier about the president's son. It was wrong of me to do that.

MORE clashed with foreign counterparts at a two-day NATO summit in London this week that underscored his distance from other world leaders at a time when he faces an impeachment threat at home. Trump, known for being a disruptive force at global gatherings, kicked off the meetings by criticizing MORE and eviscerating House Democrats for pursuing an impeachment inquiry the White House says is designed solely to damage his political prospects. But in a shift from previous gatherings, world leaders did not seek to appease the president or tiptoe

White House counsel Pat Cipollone previewed aspects of a likely Senate impeachment trial with Republican senators Wednesday, highlighting procedural rules while also decrying what he called an unfair inquiry in the House. Senators who attended the lunch meeting with Cipollone said he spent much of the time discussing which articles of impeachment the House is likely to hit MORE with and what supporting facts Democrats will use to make their case in the Senate. A White House official said the meeting was “the outgrowth of a conversation between several members [in the