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Earlier Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged during a news conference in Rome that he listened in on the call, on which Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son. Current and former U.S. officials also told The Washington Post that Trump involved Vice President Pence in efforts to pressure Zelensky at a time when the president was using other channels…

A jury has sentenced a former Dallas police officer to 10 years in prison for the shooting death of her unarmed neighbor in his home last year. Amber Guyger was convicted of murder Tuesday by the same jury in the death of Botham Jean.  The sentence was met with boos and jeers by a crowd gathered outside the courtroom. But Jean’s younger brother, Brandt Jean, as he addressed Guyger in a victim…

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In a sign that even Trump-haters don’t see strong enough grounds to impeach President Trump, the New York Times on Monday “broke” yet another breathless story meant to bolster the case about his supposed abuse of power. Trump “pressed” Australia’s leader “in a recent telephone call” to help Attorney General William Barr collect info to “discredit” the Mueller probe, the paper said, citing (as usual) unnamed sources. “The president,” it…

“Like other whistle-blowers have done before and since under Republican and Democratic-controlled committees, the whistle-blower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community,” said Patrick Boland, a spokesman for Mr. Schiff. In his whistle-blower complaint, the officer said Mr. Trump pressured the Ukrainian government to investigate a host of issues that could benefit him politically, including one connected to a…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House intelligence committee, delivered a stern warning to the White House: attempts to “stonewall” the impeachment inquiry “will be considered further evidence of obstruction of justice”. “We’re not fooling around here,” Schiff said, speaking at an unusually crowded press conference. Pelosi said Trump’s threats against the whistleblower and officials who spoke with the whistleblower are “dangerous”. The whistleblower…

A vintage World War II plane crashed shortly after takeoff, erupted into flames and killed people on board Wednesday at Bradley International Airport, just outside of Hartford, Connecticut, authorities said. “There were fatalities,” State Police Commissioner James Rovella told reporters, while not specifying exactly how many were killed. “Victims are very difficult to identify, we don’t want to make a mistake.” Download the NBC News app for breaking news and…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the House Intelligence Committee is attempting to “intimidate, bully and treat improperly the distinguished professionals of the Department of State.” Politico’s chief Brussels correspondent David Herszenhorn explains how former envoy Kurt Volker is involved in the scandal.

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Live updates: Democrats warns White House ‘we’re not fooling around’ on impeachment inquiry Pompeo on Wednesday confirmed that he listened in on the phone call and reiterated his complaint that the demands by Democrats for interviews with State Department officials amounted to an act of intimidation. “We won’t tolerate folks on Capitol Hill bullying and intimidating State Department employees — that’s unacceptable,” he said during a news conference in Italy….

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People at the Seoul Railway Station watch a newscast showing a file image of a North Korean missile launch. North Korea on Wednesday fired projectiles toward its eastern sea, South Korea’s military said, in an apparent display of its expanding military capabilities ahead of planned nuclear negotiations with the United States this weekend. Ahn Young-joon/AP hide caption toggle caption Ahn Young-joon/AP People at the Seoul Railway Station watch a newscast…

A person opens the door of a Department of Licensing office in Lacey, Wash. Starting Oct. 1, 2020, travelers will need a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license or other accepted form of ID to pass through airport security. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption toggle caption Ted S. Warren/AP A person opens the door of a Department of Licensing office in Lacey, Wash. Starting Oct. 1, 2020, travelers will need a REAL…

To many Peruvians, particularly the young and the left-leaning, Mr. Vizcarra’s move is a chance to wipe the slate clean and finally reform the corrupt political system, which allowed the country’s traditional political parties to divvy up power and economic patronage at the expense of the country’s development for decades. A less vocal section of Peruvians, however, has expressed concern about repeating the mistakes of 1992, when the country last…

Video Is the Democrats’ Ukraine investigation a rehashing of the Russia probe? Reaction and analysis from Reps. Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes and Mark Meadows. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is too “biased” to lead a Trump impeachment inquiry, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Tuesday. “[House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi putting Adam Schiff in charge of this impeachment inquiry is exactly what [former FBI Director] Jim Comey did when he put…

Video Is the Democrats’ Ukraine investigation a rehashing of the Russia probe? Reaction and analysis from Reps. Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes and Mark Meadows. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is too “biased” to lead a Trump impeachment inquiry, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Tuesday. “[House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi putting Adam Schiff in charge of this impeachment inquiry is exactly what [former FBI Director] Jim Comey did when he put…

CLOSE President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate 2020 presidential challenger Joe Biden is increasingly drawing comparisons to former president Nixon’s Watergate scandal. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – A new poll shows that only four in 10 Republicans believe President Donald Trump talked to the Ukrainian president about investigating political rival Joe Biden, even though Trump has acknowledged doing so. That compares with 85% of Democrats and 61% of independents surveyed by…

Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore said Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden is “afraid” to confront allegations that, while vice president, he may have pressured the Ukrainian government to fire a top prosecutor who was investigating a gas company that employed his lobbyist son Hunter. During an interview Tuesday on MSNBC, Moore was asked about his thoughts on Biden, whom President Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani want to be investigated…

Hunter Biden is at the center of the fake misconduct accusations against his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, that generated real misconduct by President Donald Trump. The way to understand him is to know that he’s not Beau Biden. Hunter is the younger of Joe Biden’s two sons. He never showed as much promise as his brother Beau, stumbling through life and often trading on his dad’s name and…

North Korea on Wednesday fired at least one projectile toward its eastern sea, South Korea’s military said, in an apparent display of its expanding military capabilities ahead of planned nuclear negotiations with the U.S. this weekend.