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Both Democrats and Republicans are digging in for what promises to be the biggest political battle in a generation. The House impeachment probe resolution, which passed in a 232-196 party-line vote, was the first of many public fights that are likely to extend in 2020. It was also a clear indication that the next phase of the impeachment process — taking place in public hearings, before the television cameras — will be a highly partisan affair. Over the past five weeks, the probe has primarily b

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All GOP Senators are expected to stay silent while Lee pushes his bill that rewards roughly 300,000 of India’s contract workers in the United States with a fast track to citizenship. Silicon Valley investors back his bill, which also allows companies to annually pay 60,000 of India’s contract workers — plus 60,000 family members — with government-provided green cards after they take jobs from American graduates. Existing “country caps” set an annual limit of 20,000 on the number of cards that can be provided by employers to Indian visa workers. Democrat Sen.

Trump revealed on Twitter the dog would come to the White House for a visit next week. The establishment media predictably freaked after the president shared an obviously photoshopped image of him awarding the dog a Medal of Honor. “The ‘live’ version of Conan will be leaving the Middle East for the White House sometime next week!” Trump wrote on Twitter. The dog, who was wounded in the raid, had since returned to duty in the Middle East, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley. “Conan” captured the hearts of the American people, especially after Donald Trump declassifie

LORDSTOWN, Ohio — They stood outside in the dark, illuminated by barrel fires and the headlights of trucks lurching by, and they were angry. The Chevrolet Cruze plant behind them had been idle for six months and shed thousands of jobs. They were the laid-off, reassigned, and retired factory workers who had spent decades inside, fitting headlights and slipping windows into doors as compact sedans took shape on the assembly line. Some of the plant’s former employees had stayed here in Northeast Ohio, perhaps without a job or with a worse-paying one, while many of their neighbors moved away.

Thursday night, Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted his support for former Deadspin writers who have been resigning en masse in the wake of a “stick to sports” demand from G/O Media, who purchased the site and several others in May. “I stand with the former Deadspin workers who decided not to bow to the greed of private equity vultures like Jim Spanfeller.

WASHINGTON — President Trump says he will be making Palm Beach, Florida, his permanent residence after he leaves the White House, rather than returning to Trump Tower in New York. Trump tweeted late Thursday that he cherished New York.

WASHINGTON — The only thing they could agree on was that it was a solemn day. For Democrats, the historic House vote on Thursday to formalize the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump was a step that they said pained them to take but was necessary to defend the Constitution. “The founders didn’t want a king, they didn’t want a dictator, they didn’t want a monarch, they wanted a democracy and that is exactly what we are defending right now,” said Representative Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat.

WASHINGTON — Democrats pushed a package of ground rules for their impeachment inquiry of President Trump through a sharply divided House Thursday, the chamber’s first formal vote in a fight that could stretch into the 2020 election year. The tally was 232-196, with all Republicans who voted opposing the resolution. Just two Democratic defectors joined them: freshman Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey and 15-term veteran Collin Peterson of Minnesota, one of his party’s most conservative members.