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WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of President Donald Trump, was found guilty Friday of witness tampering and lying to Congress about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid. Stone was convicted of all seven counts in a federal indictment that accused him of lying to Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing the House investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to tip the 2016 election.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says witness intimidation is a crime. But she’s stopped just short of saying that President Donald Trump crossed that line with a tweet attacking the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine as she testified in the House impeachment hearings. The California Democrat told reporters she’d not seen Trump’s tweet.

Former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified for several hours Friday about her removal from the Ukraine ambassadorship in the face of what she called a “smear campaign.” Here’s a look at some key moments in Yovanovitch’s testimony, which is part of the House impeachment inquiry. The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee argued that Yovanovitch “is not a material fact witness” in the House impeachment probe. California Representative Devin Nunes said the details of her May ouster at Trump’s direction are a human resources issue, instead of

MORE was given a hero’s welcome at a large conservative gathering Thursday night in his first public speech since his confirmation to the Supreme Court last year was nearly derailed by sexual assault allegations. The justice delivered the keynote speech at the Federalist Society’s annual Antonin Scalia Memorial Dinner.

MORE on Thursday appealed to the Supreme Court, asking it to reverse a court order requiring his accountants to hand over eight years of tax returns, in a dramatic escalation of his fight to keep his financial records private. Trump’s request comes after a federal appeals court in New York last week said Manhattan prosecutors could enforce a subpoena against Trump’s accounting firm Mazars USA for his personal and corporate financial records from 2011 to 2018.  In their petition to the Supreme Court, Trump’s personal lawyers called the records request “politically moti

MORE who was seeking a ruling on whether he must comply with a congressional subpoena to testify in the House impeachment inquiry. The filing to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., cited Trump's official capacity as president. In it, he sought to have a judge dismiss White House official Dr. Charles Kupperman's lawsuit seeking guidance on whether he should comply with the subpoena or the president's directive not to cooperate. A representative for Trump argued that the president's direction should supersede any prospective court ruling. "Although Dr.

House Democrats hope the public testimony of Marie Yovanovitch on Friday breathes life into their narrative that MORE and his associates carried out a shadow campaign to oust the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine. Yovanovitch, a career diplomat, described to House investigators last month a “dangerous precedent” where the president’s personal lawyer MORE, corrupt Ukrainian officials, and disreputable media figures succeeded in ousting a U.S.

Joe Biden’s campaign is attempting to spin the narrative around his son’s work in Ukraine with a hastily created website as the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry continues to heat up. The former vice president, who is already trying to salvage his foreign policy credentials after revelations about Hunter Biden’s wheeling and dealing overseas, launched a new website on Thursday to spin the narrative emanating from the inquiry. The sit