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Top Democrats ask US spy chiefs for briefing on Russia bounty reports
The New York Times report, which has been confirmed by several American and British media outlets, said that US intelligence concluded that a Russian military...
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Top Democrat Pelosi rips up Trump speech
The tension between Trump and his Democratic nemesis was palpable from the outset, as Pelosi extended her extended her hand for a handshake - and the president failed to return the favour.
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Trump gave us 'no choice' but to impeach: top Democrat
US President Donald Trump is accused of using a delay in delivery of foreign aid money to Ukraine to try to force the country to open a deliberately embarrassing corruption probe into a main 2020 reelection rival, Democrat Joe Biden.
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Pelosi says Trump has admitted to bribery as impeachment probe intensifies
Democrats are looking into whether the Republican president abused his power by withholding $391 million in US security aid to Ukraine as leverage to pressure Kiev to conduct two investigations that would benefit him politically.
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Pelosi expects Trump impeachment hearings in Nov - Bloomberg interview
In the first formal test of support for the impeachment investigation, the Democratic-controlled House on Thursday voted almost entirely along party lines - 232 to 196 - to move the probe forward in Congress.
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US House formalises Trump impeachment process in landmark vote
Trump has repeatedly branded the process as illegitimate and politically motivated and, true to form, his reaction was swift.
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White House accused of cover-up over Trump-Ukraine call
The complaint caps a stunning week of revelations that have put Trump's presidency in jeopardy, with his administration, the Justice Department and State Department all engulfed in the mushrooming scandal.
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Trump calls Democratic impeachment inquiry a 'joke'
US President Donald Trump denied claims he abused his office by repeatedly urging President Volodymyr Zelensky to probe his rival Joe Biden - as confirmed in a call transcript released by the White House.
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US Speaker Nancy Pelosi to address Ghanaian Parliament
Her visit would mark the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans being sent to the United States.
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Trump tells congresswomen to 'go back' where they're from
In a tweet, Donald Trump referred to "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen," which appeared to be a reference to a group of outspoken relatively young, liberal women, all first-time members of the House of Representatives.
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House Speaker Pelosi urges Trump family 'intervention' with US president
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wished President Donald Trump’s family or staff would conduct an 'intervention' with him for the good of the US after he threw what she called a temper tantrum at a meeting a day earlier.
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Trump walks out on Democrats as impeachment talk heats up
The clash marked a dramatic escalation in Trump's war of words with congressional opponents seeking to bring him to account for what they say is presidential wrongdoing.
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White House denies Trump inciting violence against Muslim lawmaker
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took time out from an official trip to issue a strong statement urging Trump to remove the clip featuring Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
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US House passes bill rejecting Trump's border wall emergency
By a vote of 245-182, the House passed the resolution, setting up a vote in the Republican-controlled Senate where the resolution’s chances were slimmer, but seemed to be improving.
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Trump vows emergency declaration over wall
Conceding defeat in his earlier demand that Congress provide him with $5.7 billion in wall money, Trump agreed to sign a government-funding bill that lacks money for his wall.
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Trump re-invited to deliver State of the Union on 5 February
The date is just 10 days before the deadline for lawmakers and the president to agree on a border security package that averts a subsequent government shutdown.
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Trump grounds House speaker, scraps Davos trip amid shutdown
The mess in the US capital already verged on the surreal as Congress feuds with the White House over how to end an impasse now in its fourth week, with thousands of federal workers left unpaid.
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As shutdown lingers, Pelosi pushes Trump to delay State of Union speech
Pelosi, speaking to reporters, suggested that if Trump would not agree to reschedule the speech until the government reopens, he could deliver it from the Oval Office instead, a setting that would lack the grandeur of a congressional address.
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Stop holding Americans 'hostage' over shutdown, Pelosi tells Trump
Top congressional Democrats on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump of holding Americans "hostage" by refusing to strike a deal to fund shuttered government agencies, and using fear mongering to justify his demand for his much-hyped border wall.
