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The hearing, which featured Bill Taylor, acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, and George Kent, a senior State Department official, was teased as a “bombshell, given House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) allocating Democrats more time to dominate and minimize GOP voices in the first hour.

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President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign announced it raised $3.1 million in small-dollar donations during the first 24 hours of House Democrats launching public impeachment hearings on Wednesday. The news was announced by Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale. “One of our best fundraising days ever… again!” he wrote on Twitter. “Dems just don’t get it.

ERIE, Pa. — Harold Klinzing, a 46-year-old roofer who loves his labor union, is the sort of voter Democratic presidential victories were once built upon. “I loved Bill Clinton,” Klinzing recalled fondly. “He was my favorite president. I loved him to death.” But after voting for Barack Obama in 2008, Klinzing, a lifelong Democrat, had soured on him by 2012 and sat out that election entirely.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A second U.S. embassy staffer in Kyiv overheard a key cellphone call between President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the European Union discussing the need for Ukrainian officials to pursue “investigations,” The Associated Press has learned. The July 26 call between Trump and Gordon Sondland was first described during testimony Wednesday by William Taylor, the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

Elizabeth Warren vs. the billionaires? The Massachusetts senator and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful is ramping up her rhetoric against the very wealthy this week as the presidential primary race approaches a critical phase: The Iowa caucuses are just two and a half months away. The Warren campaign released an ad on the business- and investing-focused cable channel CNBC targeting a number of wealthy individuals by name who have criticized Warren’s wealth tax.

WASHINGTON — Representative Ayanna Pressley on Thursday proposed legislation to end the death penalty and ban assault weapons as part of a sweeping plan to make the criminal justice system smaller, less discriminatory, and “more humane.” Her bill centers around five tenets — shared power, freedom, equality, safety, and dignity — and aims to combat what the Boston Democrat said was the disproportionate effect of the criminal justice system on women, people of color, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, and other marginalized groups. “For far too long, those closest t

The impeachment inquiry is proceeding quickly, and it entered a new phase this week as the House Intelligence Committee began open hearings to question witnesses about President Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to open investigations into his political rivals. The Globe wanted to know: What questions do you have about the impeachment inquiry as it moves into this new phase? So we we sought out your thoughts, and we’re answering some of your queries here. Have more questions?

Top Republicans in the House dismissed the first public hearing in the impeachment inquiry into MORE as boring and said they don't believe any new information emerged that would justify impeaching the president. They brushed off a key piece of testimony from William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, that Democrats said was cause for alarm as mere hearsay. Taylor testified Wednesday that a staffer told him U.S.

House Democrats got what they wanted out of their first impeachment hearing on Wednesday: testimony from witnesses outlining how   Democrats said putting the two career State Department officials on the record lays the groundwork for building their case that Trump abused his office for his own political gain. And they secured new evidence at the start of the hearing as William Taylor, the chargé d’affaires for Ukraine, testified that his staffer had overheard Trump asking U.S.