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Dems say oust Trump or he’ll betray again; ‘He is who he is’
Closing out their case, House Democrats warned in Donald Trump's impeachment trial that the president will persist in abusing his power and endangering American democracy unless Congress intervenes to remove him before the 2020 election.
They then implored Republican senators to allow new testimony before rendering a final verdict.
Republicans reject subpoenas as impeachment debate goes on
The U.S. Senate plunged into President Donald Trump's impeachment trial on Jan. 21 with Republicans abruptly abandoning plans to cram opening arguments into two late-night sessions and Democrats arguing for more witnesses to expose Trump's "trifecta" of offenses.
Trump rails against delay in moving impeachment to Senate
President Donald Trump railed behind closed doors on Dec. 19 about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to delay sending articles of impeachment to the Republican Senate, putting an expected trial in limbo.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a staunch Trump GOP ally, emerged from a White House meeting with the president with a message.
Trump impeached by US House on charge of abuse of power
President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 18 night, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution's ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Trump impeached on charges of abuse of power, obstruction
President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution's ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors.
US congressmen seek to link Turkey sanctions to violations in Aegean, East Med
A cross-party bill submitted to US Congress seeks to link Turkey's activities in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean to sanctions imposed by Washington earlier this week over Ankara's offensive in Syria, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) reported on Thursday.
Rethinking Referendums: Can Direct Democracy Defeat Populism?
Since then, there have been calls to re-empower the "gatekeepers", which is a polite way of saying that the unwashed masses should be kept as far away from political decision-making as possible.
Yet this liberal impulse reflects a misreading of recent history: it was elites, not the masses, who enabled Brexit and Trump.
Bulgarian Antifa Slates Trump Attack on ‘Hate’ Movement
Antifa activists in Bulgaria have told BIRN that they see moves in the US to criminalise the left-wing movement as an issue pushed by the far right.
US president reportedly reluctant to go ahead with Turkey sanctions
US President Donald Trump has reportedly asked Republican senators to take a softer approach to Turkey over its decision to purchase the Russian S-400 missile defense system, saying that he would like time to talk Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan out of the deal, NBC News reported on Wednesday night.
Turkey’s democratic reflexes
On the night of June 23, moments after the first exit polls signaled Ekrem Imamoglu's electoral triumph in the controversial mayoral rerun, Istanbul went through a moment of rare release.
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