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The Navy and President Trump have been in a tug of war over Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, the Navy SEAL at the center of a highly publicized war crimes case.

Supreme Court Justice the court said in a statement.  "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, last night after experiencing chills and fever earlier in the day," the statement said.  "With intravenous antibiotics and fluids, her symptoms have abated and she expects to be released from the hospital as early as Sunday morning," the court added.  The statement noted that there will be additional updates when they are available.  Ginsburg, 86, also 

Witnesses pointed their fingers at a number of figures close to MORE who could help untangle the web around the administration’s dealings with Ukraine during the public impeachment hearings.

Two weeks of public testimony has revealed new, damaging details of the Trump administration’s dealings with Ukraine, but witnesses who come before Congress and the American people have had to pay a price.  Witnesses have endured harassment, threats and attacks on their personal character as they are suddenly thrust into public view.

New polling showing public opposition to impeachment has some Republicans along with officials in the White House voicing skepticism that Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) will go through with a vote on articles of impeachment. Even MORE, while insisting he wanted an impeachment trial, predicted Friday that Pelosi would not go through with impeachment. “No, I don’t expect it,” he said in an interview on “Fox & Friends.” “I think it’s very hard for them to impeach you when they have absolutely nothing,” he added. While Pelosi has not guaranteed ther

Labor unions voicing skepticism about the updated North American trade agreement are becoming a final obstacle to the deal that House Democrats and the White House are seeking to iron out. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other labor leaders want to make sure that Mexico enforces new labor standards under the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement (USMCA), and that there is a strong system of recourse if Mexico does not. Without such enforcement, Democrats and labor unions aligned with them worry Mexico will have an unfair advantage to compete with American companies. Trumka met with

Then-Rep. James Rogan (R-CA) had been selected to be one of the two “managers” who led the prosecution of President Clinton in the Senate in 1999.

Reuters reported on the November 15 letter sent by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to Ken Blanco, the director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network: The letter is part of an effort in Congress to defend President Donald Trump for what Republicans say is a partisan effort by Democrats to make a phone call between Trump and Ukrai

“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, last night after experiencing chills and fever earlier in the day. She was initially evaluated at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. before being transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital for further evaluation and treatment of any possible infection,” Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said in a statement.