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WASHINGTON — In the halls of Congress, this is not the most wonderful time of the year. Democrats and Republicans were in a bitter mood Wednesday as the impeachment inquiry into President Trump entered a new phase with the first Judiciary Committee hearing.

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The House Intelligence Committee released phone records on Tuesday showing extensive communications between MORE and the White House as well as several other key figures in the impeachment inquiry. The phone logs revealed frequent contact between MORE (R-Calif.), Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and John Solomon, a conservative columnist formerly with The Hill. In one instance, on Aug.

The House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday evening voted to advance its impeachment report and send it to the House Judiciary Committee. The vote to advance the report took place along party lines and passed by a 13-9 margin.

Democrats moved a step closer to impeaching MORE on Tuesday, but the jury remains out as to whether the party will glean political benefits from the move. Democrats have some grounds for optimism, now that the House Intelligence Committee has released its report and articles of impeachment look almost inevitable. Opinion polls show solid support for the impeachment inquiry itself, even though the public is more tepid about removing Trump from office. The evidence heard before the Intelligence panel last month — particularly from MORE, the U.S

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday unveiled the much-awaited findings of their weeks-long impeachment investigation, laying out in blow-by-blow detail the basis for their allegations that President Trump abused the power of his office. The 300-page report does not recommend specific articles of impeachment — leaving those decisions to the Judiciary Committee — but it paints a damning portrait of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine and all but asserts that those actions warrant his removal from office. Most of the narrative o

Billionaire and 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidate Michael Bloomberg is vowing to free hundreds of thousands of accused criminals who are deemed “non-violent” by eliminating bail nationwide. During a speech in Jackson, Mississippi, Bloomberg laid out his plan to “reduce or eliminate the use of cash bail for non-violent offenders” who are awaiting trial.

In their new book, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, co-founders of the controversial Fusion GPS opposition research outfit, admit their firm’s infamous anti-Trump dossier was not a “finished product.” Yet that same dossier reportedly served as a roadmap for the FBI’s investigation into unsubstantiated and unproven allegations of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry amounts to an “orchestrated campaign” to undermine America’s democratic system by removing President Donald Trump, mainly based on “accusations and assumptions of unelected bureaucrats,” the GOP’s report on the quest to push the U.S.

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against CNN for a fake news story the outlet printed about him before Thanksgiving, revealing in the lawsuit that he was never as CNN alleged in Vienna in late 2018 and did not meet with the ousted Ukrainian prosecutor CNN alleged he met with there. Nunes’s lawsuit includes revelations of key facts that undermine the case CNN made against him, severely harming the news outlet’s credibility.