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Supporters at MORE. Trump spent a good portion of his rally complaining about the impeachment investigation.

House Democrats on Tuesday released the remaining witness transcripts from their impeachment inquiry into MORE. The three House committees that led the closed-door depositions released interviews with Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of State in charge of European and Eurasian Affairs, and Mark Sandy, a senior Office of Management and Budget official.  The document release comes as the House Intelligence Committee plans to work through the Thanksgiving holiday to compile a report for the House Judiciary Committee to use in determining whether to draft art

MORE to go to Ukraine on his behalf amid scrutiny as part of the ongoing House impeachment inquiry. "No, I didn’t direct him.

Two staffers for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) resigned after expressing frustrations about a hold on military assistance to Ukraine that is now at the center of the impeachment inquiry, a witness has testified. released Tuesday.  Sandy recalled that one individual who resigned had "expressed some frustrations about not understanding the reason for the hold," according to the transcript, but he noted that he was "reluctant to speak to someone else's motivations." He was also asked whether the

Michael Harriot, a writer for The Root, launched an angry column criticizing Buttigieg after watching a 2011 clip of the mayor discussing education problems facing black Americans before he was elected mayor. Buttigieg said: The clip made the rounds on social media as evidence that Buttigieg was clueless about black America. That angered Harriot, who wrote that Buttigieg was a “lucky motherfucker” whose father and mother were professors at elite colleges and got into Harvard and became a Rhodes Scholar and did not un

Ulises Mondragon Umanzor, a 30-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, allegedly illegally drove a forklift while illegally working for a construction company and hit 70-year-old James “Jim” Zakos, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. While Zakos was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead, Umanzor allegedly fled the crash and eventually got off the forklift and walked away even as an eyewitness told him to return to

The House Intelligence Committee released a transcript of Sandy’s closed-door deposition on Tuesday afternoon, which had not been made available before recent public hearings in the impeachment inquiry. Sandy testified that Trump began asking questions about the aid on June 19. He learned about the president’s decision to withhold the aid on July 18th, when he returned from leave.

The museum’s copy of the Gettysburg Address is one of five handwritten copies in existence.

BLOOMER, Wis. — Marc Boettcher’s day started before dawn, when he fired up the hammer mill that ground up corn for a mixture he fed to the steers in his barn. There was an empty room where he used to milk dairy cows until he sold them a couple of years back, but on a cold morning this summer, much of the barn was full of cattle — curious, anxious, and endearingly weird — who jostled one another to get a look at him. One left him a gift of manure in the drinking trough.

President Donald Trump popped off a few impeachment jokes as he continued the 30-year-old tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey. Trump’s latest act of clemency Tuesday benefits Butter, a 47-pound turkey wished a “lot of luck” by the president.