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The acting US ambassador to Kyiv has told congressional committees conducting impeachment hearings that military aid to Ukraine was made conditional on its government investigating the president’s political opponents. In the latest…

Democrats had tapped Cummings to be their leader on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee in 2010, after Republicans retook the House majority. He was not the next in line, but the party had pushed out veteran Representative…

3. She’s been asked a variation of this question at every debate, and “she’s sticking to her party’s age-old wariness of telling middle-class families in a simple sound bite that their tax bill might go up,” Russell points out.4.…

Former Vice President Joe Biden is the best evidence of how far to the left Democrats have moved on the abortion issue. Throughout his career in the Senate, which began shortly after the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe, Biden stuck to a…

On Friday afternoon, James Baker, the former general counsel of the F.B.I., felt a tinge of optimism. Almost two years ago, he was ousted from his position as the Bureau’s top legal official, after President Trump fired the F.B.I.’s…

Read: How Trump is reversing Obama’s nondiscrimination legacyThe case is named for Kendra Espinoza, a single mother who lives near Kalispell, Montana, who took her two daughters out of public school after one struggled academically and…

Godfrey: You’re in a district that runs along a huge chunk of the U.S.-Mexico border, so let’s talk about immigration. Cuellar has called for tightened border security, but he has criticized Trump’s idea of building a wall (while…

What about the air base though? “Incirlik is an albatross,” said one former senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity. “But there are people in for whom Turkey is sacrosanct and all of its problems—busting US…

The letter has exasperated Democratic lawmakers who had hoped to gather evidence and hear from witnesses, with the goal of voting on articles of impeachment by the end of the year.Read: Trump finally has his lawyer Some Democrats want to…

The hitch, from Turkey’s perspective: American forces were with the Kurds, had expressed commitments to the Kurds, and moving against them would have required coming into direct confrontation with the soldiers of a NATO ally. If this…