The Senate overwhelmingly acquitted President Trump on both articles of impeachment against him Wednesday afternoon following a brief trial, in a historic rejection of Democrats’ claims that the president’s Ukraine dealings and handling of congressional subpoenas merited his immediate removal from office. Several Congressional Democrats, speaking to Fox News, were dejected on Capitol Hill late […]
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) shocked his fellow Republican senators and surprised much of the nation on Wednesday with a dramatic floor speech announcing he would vote to convict President Trump on the impeachment charge of abuse of power. Romney announced his decision in a nearly empty Senate chamber just hours before the Senate voted to […]
President Trump’s approval rating hit 49 percent in a new Gallup poll released Tuesday, his highest mark in that poll since he took office. The poll, released on the eve of a likely Senate vote to acquit him on impeachment charges and at the outset of an election year, found 50 percent of those surveyed […]
Rush Limbaugh on Monday announced during his nationally syndicated radio show that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. The 69-year-old radio host — considered the most influential in radio among conservatives — added that he will be out for the next several days as he undergoes treatment. Limbaugh said he was experiencing shortness […]
China reported a large spike in coronavirus cases and deaths as of Tuesday morning, with the numbers of those infected climbing past 20,000 and the death toll reaching 425, according to China’s National Health Commission. The newly reported 3,235 confirmed cases of the infection include 2,345 in Hubei province, where the virus originated, and include […]
The Senate is scheduled to convene as a court of impeachment at 11 a.m. Monday to hear the closing arguments on whether to remove President Trump from office. Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) won a big victory Friday when they defeated a push by Democrats to subpoena former national security adviser John […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Secretary of State John Kerry — one of Joe Biden’s highest-profile endorsers — was overheard Sunday on the phone at a Des Moines hotel explaining what he would have to do to enter the presidential race amid “the possibility of Bernie Sanders taking down the Democratic Party — down whole.” […]
LONDON — It happened — the United Kingdom walked away from the world’s largest political and economic club. After 47 years of membership — and more than three years of political uncertainty, rancor and division — the United Kingdom officially left the European Union on Friday. The Brexit divorce was made official at the stroke […]
WASHINGTON — Majorities of American voters believe that President Donald Trump abused his power and obstructed Congress in the Ukraine scandal, but the public remains split — largely along party lines — over whether those actions justify his removal from office. Those are the findings of a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released […]
BEIJING, China — Hundreds of doctors and medical personnel have been drafted in from China’s military to treat patients infected by the deadly new coronavirus, the country’ state media reported Sunday. As the number of dead in the country topped 300, China’s state news agency Xinhua reported that 1,400 medical specialists would staff a new […]
It’s Groundhog Day… again. And this year Punxsutawney Phil declared: “Spring will be early, it’s a certainty.” At Sunrise on Sunday, members of the famous rodent’s top hat-wearing inner circle revealed his 134th “prognostication,” according to the Pennsylvania Tourism Office. Awoken by a large crowd’s chants of “Phil!” the groundhog was hoisted in the air […]
A man the Iraqi government says is an Al Qaeda leader has been arrested in Arizona, prosecutors said. Authorities in Iraq have accused Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, 42, of killing two police officers in Fallujah in 2006 with other members of the terror group founded by Usama Bin Laden, Arizona federal prosecutors said. Al-Nouri was […]
