What Is In The Next Covid Relief Bill
House Democrats are putting the finishing touches on their Covid-19 relief package. It is expected to include everything from direct payments to a $15 federal minimum wage, and cost nearly $2 trillion...
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Seven Republicans Voted To Convict Trump. Where Does The GOP Go From Here?
Seven Republican senators voted to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection, making this impeachment the most bipartisan in history. But some of those senators are already fac...
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Donald Trump Acquitted In Second Impeachment Trial
All fifty members of the Democratic caucus and seven Republicans said Donald Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection at the Capitol — that's ten votes short of the two-thirds majority required for...
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Is Trump's Whataboutism Defense Enough Cover For GOP Acquittal?
In a combative but brief showing, former president Trump's defense team highlighted past uses of fight metaphors by Democratic politicians to suggest the president's rally speech didn't incite the ins...
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Democrats Tell Senators A Conviction Could Prevent Future Violence
The House impeachment managers concluded their case against Donald Trump by characterizing a Senate conviction as a way to prevent of future violence — a warning to future presidents who might be also...
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Democrats Ground Case Against Trump In Jarring Insurrection Videos
The Democratic impeachment managers played a series of graphic videos demonstrating just how close senators came to encountering violent extremists inside the Capitol. Soon, those senators will have t...
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56 Votes Is Enough To Continue Trump's Trial—But Short Of What's Needed To Convict
Six Republicans voted with Democrats that it is constitutional to try a former president in the Senate after he or she has left office. But it would take another 11 in order to convict him on the impe...
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What To Know About Trump's Second Impeachment Trial
The impeachment trial gets underway tomorrow. A new brief suggests that Trump's lawyers will defend him on both process and substance. And a vote to convict the former president always seemed unlikely...
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