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PORT HURON, Mich. — Giani DiTrapani was on his way out the door when his mom called out, “You better be voting for Trump!” She shouldn’t have worried. Giani, then a high school senior about to vote in his first presidential election, had already lined up behind the outsider candidate, even getting into a Twitter war with a fellow student council member who was criticizing Trump.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Senator Bernie Sanders was holding court on the topic of health care for senior citizens last weekend when a bespectacled supporter asked about the health of one particular senior citizen: Sanders himself. “What’s the prognosis of your heart attack,” he asked, “and the future of Bernie?” Sanders, the 78-year-old presidential candidate, gripped the microphone and leaned over his lectern to somberly recount the last month of his medical history: the blocked artery, the hospital stay, two stents.

WASHINGTON — Senior Trump administration officials considered resigning en masse last year in a ‘‘midnight self-massacre’’ to sound a public alarm about President Donald Trump’s conduct, but rejected the idea because they believed it would further destabilize an already teetering government, according to a new book by an unnamed author. In ‘‘A Warning’’ by Anonymous, obtained by The Washington Post ahead of its release, a writer described only as ‘‘a senior official in the Trump administration’’ paints a chilling portrait of the president as cruel, inept, and a danger to the

WASHINGTON — House Democrats have subpoenaed acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney in their impeachment probe, demanding his testimony Friday as they wrap up closed-door interviews and move into a public phase of the investigation. Despite the late-night subpoena, Mulvaney isn’t expected to appear for the interview Democrats have scheduled.

House Democrats on Wednesday released the transcript of their interview with the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, who delivered dire warnings that MORE’s dealings with Ukraine “fundamentally undermined” U.S.

The White House is doubling down on its insistence that there was no quid pro quo in MORE. White House aides have seized on select portions of testimony from officials they see as bolstering their claims, while questioning the credibility of those who have described in closed-door depositions with House investigators an alleged quid pro quo related to Ukraine. “The transcripts that were released ...

Former Attorney General MORE is expected to announce plans to run for his former Senate seat on Thursday, multiple sources told The Hill. A source familiar with Sessions’s plans said that the former Alabama senator “will come out forcefully in support of [President] Trump’s agenda while denouncing Democrats’ impeachment efforts.

The trio of witnesses called to testify next week in the first public impeachment hearings are some of the biggest names and most significant players in the Democrats' sprawling six-week probe into allegations MORE pressured a foreign power to investigate his political rivals. House Democrats know that millions of Americans will be tuning in to watch the impeachment inquiry for the first time now that weeks of closed-door depositions are giving way to televised Watergate-style hearings that are set for next Wednesday and Friday. The hearings could be held in one of th

MORE spent the outset of a campaign rally Wednesday evening railing against House Democrats, accusing them of pursuing a “deranged, delusional, destructive and hyperpartisan impeachment witch hunt.” "It’s all a hoax.