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The Senate passed Mitch McConnell’s impeachment trial rules along party lines early Wednesday morning — ending a 13-hour day of debate on the Senate floor in which all 11 amendments introduce…

Using an argument that is difficult to disprove, the president’s legal team outlined the fact that the articles fail to acknowledge any crime or violation of the law, which are required by the Constitution

The Army Times appointed as its editor a 28-year-old from Brooklyn who previously worked as a spokeswoman for a Democratic politician and hates President Trump.

President Donald Trump on Monday rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ impeachment charges and called for their immediate dismissal by the Republican-led Senate in a memo offering a legal and political case against his removal.

The 116-page Trial Memorandum sought to undercut charges that the Republican president abused his power and obstructed Congress, and constituted Trump’s first comprehensive defense before his Senate trial begins in earnest on Tuesday

The U.S. Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will begin in earnest on Tuesday, when senators may begin hearing opening statements on why he should be removed from office.
While senators will serve as jurors, legal experts say an impeachment trial will look fundamentally different from a U.S. criminal proceeding. Here are the reasons why.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly is close to finalizing a rule that would allow President Trump's team to move to dismiss the articles of impeachment in the Senate quickly after some evidence has been presented, as a sort of safety valve in case Democrats try to drag out the trial for weeks.

There are some 33,000 births in the US to foreign nationals each year. Another 39,000 babies are born to foreign students, guest workers and other long-term temporary visa holders. And, an additional 300,000 babies are born to illegal aliens each year in the United States. According to Axios — President Trump is going to focus …

President Trump lashed out at congressional Democrats over his impeachment on Sunday during an address to the American Farm Bureau in Austin, Texas.

Joe Biden linked President Trump to the KKK in a sermon in a black church in South Carolina on the eve of Martin Luther King Day.

As President Trump prepares to sign an executive order expanding “Constitutional prayer” in public schools in honor of Religious Freedom Day, a prominent evangelical leader is saying that it is precisely acts like this that will help the President get even more Christian support in the 2020 election.

GOP senators appeared apathetic to the news that a government watchdog determined Trump violated the law by withholding aid from Ukraine and that new evidence further detailed the president’s efforts to force the ouster of a former ambassador and pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.

Wall Street looks set for more record highs Thursday as global investors react to details of a phase one trade agreement between the U.S. and China that eases tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew criticism on Wednesday for handing out commemorative pens with her name on them after signing the resolution to transmit the two articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a top ally of President Trump’s, said Wednesday that he wants the looming impeachment trial to be wrapped before the scheduled Feb. 4 State of the Union speech.

Jason Hopkins, DCNF Democrats on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigrant and Citizenship announced on Tuesday an investigation into the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols program.  Migrant Protection Protocols, or “Remain in Mexico,” calls on asylum seekers who reach the southern border to wait in Mexico for the duration of their court proceedings, which helps …

President Trump holds a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.