As President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial unfolds, Courthouse News will be gathering interviews with senators, members of Congress, attorneys and other newsmakers in the corridors of the Capitol for this regular feature.
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In the pressure campaign to oust Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, President Donald Trump appears to have told two of Rudy Giuliani’s now-indicted associates in a recorded conversation to “take her out,” according to an explosive report by ABC News.
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The British government on Friday condemned a decision by the United States not to extradite an American woman involved in a fatal road accident.
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At a gathering of world leaders to discuss solutions to save the planet from climate catastrophe, President Trump said nothing about global warming and called climate activists “prophets of doom.”
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As President Donald Trump strode from the helicopter through a snow-covered field surrounded by the towering Alps, reporters were less interested in his imminent speech to global leaders at the World Economic Forum and more interested in getting his thoughts on the impeachment trial.
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Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump have agreed to extend negotiations on a dispute over a French tax on digital companies to the end of the year, postponing Washington’s threat of sanctions against Paris, French officials said Tuesday.
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The defense floated by congressional candidate Robert Hyde to explain away texts appearing to show him scheming to covertly surveil a U.S. ambassador in Ukraine took a hit late Friday night, as the House Judiciary Committee released more encrypted text attachments to his messages from Lev Parnas.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping touched down in Myanmar’s capital Friday on a state visit aimed at buttressing the embattled government of Aung San Suu Kyi and driving through multibillion-dollar infrastructure deals.
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Ukraine said Thursday it had launched an investigation into alleged illegal surveillance of former U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, who is now a key figure in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry.
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Calling it “profoundly alarming” that Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, was the subject of threatening text messages, a lawmaker pressed the State Department on Wednesday for underlying documents.
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Iran’s president on Wednesday warned that European soldiers in the Mideast “could be in danger” after three nations challenged Tehran over breaking the limits of its nuclear deal. Tehran’s top diplomat meanwhile acknowledged that Iranians “were lied to” for days after the Islamic Republic’s accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian jetliner that killed 176 people.
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Britain, France and Germany on Tuesday ratcheted up pressure on Iran to stop violating its landmark nuclear deal in a last-ditch effort to resolve their differences through talks while also starting a process that could bring back punishing U.N. sanctions on Tehran.
Read moreThe Trump administration is dropping its designation of China as a currency manipulator in advance of the Wednesday signing of a Phase 1 U.S.-China trade agreement.
Read moreTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would “teach a lesson” to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar if he resumed fighting after abandoning ceasefire talks in Moscow.
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China said Thursday that Vice Premier Liu He will go to Washington next week to sign the phase one deal with the United States that has reduced trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.
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The European Union refused to take part in a rare diplomatic visit to Indian Kashmir starting Thursday because they will not be allowed to meet detained politicians, reports said.
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After months of avoiding a House subpoena for testimony in President Donald Trump’s impeachment, Ambassador John Bolton said Monday he will stop fighting in court if the Republican-controlled Senate follows suit.
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Russia has halted oil supplies to Belarus as talks on strengthening economic ties remained stalled over concerns that Russia could effectively swallow up its neighbor.
Read moreSecretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Ukraine this week, making his first trip to the country at the heart of President Trump’s impeachment.
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Thousands of Taliban prisoners jailed in Afghanistan see a peace deal allegedly being hammered out between the United States and the Taliban as their ticket to freedom.
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