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Senate Majority Leader MORE’s impeachment trial to start next week.  Three GOP senators said the Republican leader warned lawmakers during the caucus meeting that they should not expect to be able to go home next weekend, indicating that the long-delayed trial will be underway.  Proceedings have been held up while Speaker but she told reporters earlier Thursday that she would “soon” do so. "We thought, we as the body, that the Speaker will ... shortly send that over, so [he] said next weekend don't go anywhere," said Sen.

MORE spent a substantial part of his remarks at a campaign rally in Ohio on Thursday making the case for a U.S. strike against a top Iranian general in Iraq, describing it as part of an effort by his administration to achieve “peace through strength.” At his rally in Toledo, Ohio, Trump described Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani as a “sadistic mass murderer” who was to blame for recent Iran-backed protests on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

The House on Thursday approved a measure aimed at restricting MORE’s ability to go to war with Iran, a day after a number of lawmakers expressed frustration at the briefing where the administration provided its arguments for a drone strike that killed Iranian Gen.

CULLMAN, Alabama — As the world was awaiting President Donald Trump remarks Wednesday morning regarding an Iranian missile attack on U.S. assets in Iraq, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was on the campaign trail in Alabama. Sessions, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat he occupied for two decades, was greeting potential GOP primary voters at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in North Alabama.

New York State Senate Democrats have advanced a plan that will automatically register to vote all residents who apply for a driver’s licenses — which now includes non-citizens and illegal aliens — unless they “opt-out.” On Thursday, Senate Senate Democrats passed legislation that will automatically register all residents who obtain driver’s licenses through the New York Department of Motor Vehicles (DMVs).

Facing backlash, Republican governors are pitching refugee resettlement to opponents as a close cooperation between state officials and refugee contractors who are tasked with resettling refugees. For Fiscal Year 2020, President Donald Trump will continue cutting refugee admissions by reducing former President Barack Obama’s refugee inflow by at least 80 percent. This reduction would mean a maximum of 18,000 refugees can be resettled in the U.S.

A War Powers measure passed the House of Representatives on Thursday in what Democrats pushing it said was an effort to restrain President Donald Trump’s power when it comes to military response to Iranian aggression.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is blitzing the 2020 Democratic primary field with a series of ambitious policy proposals covering everything from student loans to the use of federal lands. Her proposals have become a signature part of her campaign, solidifying her reputation as a policy wonk and spurring a new campaign slogan: “I have a plan for that.” Here’s a look at what Warren has said she would do if elected president. wants to restore protections for bankrupt families she says were stripped away by a 2005 law in a proposal that aims to simplify the

Back to the Battleground series. Erie County on the western edge of the state, which swung by more than 16 points. Trump appealed to traditionally Democratic union voters with his message of bringing back jobs to the area and many bucked union leaders in supporting him over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Even though Trump has failed to jumpstart manufacturing, a local construction boom has boosted the economy and may help the president overcome his low popularity there. Hazleton was a hotbed of racial tension.

MORE’s new North American trade agreement faces an uncertain timeline for approval in the Senate as the upper chamber braces for a lengthy and contentious impeachment trial. There is wide bipartisan support for Trump’s U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which passed the House in December by a resounding 385 to 41.