Month: January 2020

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), while introducing House managers for the impeachment trial of President Trump in the Senate, cautions, “What is at stake here is the Constitution of the United States.” WASHINGTON —  With a solemn procession through the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday, the House took the final, formal steps to pave the way for…

WASHINGTON —  The impeachment of President Trump is the Senate’s challenge now. Directed by the Constitution, House officials and prosecutors somberly carried the articles through the dimly lighted Capitol to the Senate on Wednesday evening, triggering a trial unlike any since President Bill Clinton’s in 1999. He was acquitted. Look Thursday for a series of ceremonial…

WASHINGTON —  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. will almost certainly try to keep a low profile in the upcoming impeachment trial of President Trump. But given the lack of a bipartisan agreement in the Senate, Roberts may find himself nevertheless called upon to weigh in on the most difficult questions, including whether witnesses will testify.…

KYIV, Ukraine —  Ukrainian police said Thursday they have opened an investigation into the possibility that the U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance by an unknown party before she was recalled from her post in May. The announcement came two days after Democratic lawmakers in the United States released a trove of documents that showed Lev…

1/7 House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving leads the seven House managers, Reps. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose), Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Val Demings (D-Fla.) and Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas), to the Senate chamber.  (Alex Wong / Getty Images) 2/7 Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., center, arrives…

That sound you may have heard Wednesday morning was that of a heavy truck spinning its wheels, as President Trump signed an agreement with China that imposes a cease-fire in a trade war that has achieved virtually nothing for Americans, except the imposition of enormous economic costs on U.S. consumers, farmers and manufacturers. At the…

WASHINGTON —  Congress gave final approval to the new North American trade accord Thursday, with the Republican-controlled Senate moving swiftly during President Trump’s impeachment proceedings to hand him one of his biggest wins since occupying the White House. There was never any doubt that the Senate would pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement after the House overwhelmingly…

WASHINGTON —  A generation ago, the Senate considered a question that had not been posed in 131 years: whether to remove a president from office. Just 20 years later, that fraught question is before senators again. There are key differences between this trial of the impeached President Trump and that of Bill Clinton. In 1999, a…

Jonah Mathews knew it was only a matter of time. The senior had seen plenty of slumps during his tenure at USC, and he wasn’t about to dwell on the Trojans’ tough start from long range during the Pac-12 Conference season. All slumps passed eventually, he knew; often, they busted wide open, giving way to…

Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome to our horse racing newsletter as we introduce a slightly different look to the newsletter. Before we get to the important stuff, just a quick word that we look a little different today. It’s nothing to be concerned about, just part of the evolutionary process that the…