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LIVE IMPEACHMENT UPDATES: National Security official Fiona Hill demolishes Trump's 2016 conspiracy theory - suggests he should face the music

Fiona Hill came ready to rumble on Capitol Hill. The plainspoken National Security official blasted Republicans for floating the 2016 conspiracy theory that Ukraine - not...
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Why Corporations Can No Longer Avoid Politics

21 minutes ago | Time

For decades, most companies went to great lengths to avoid opining on social issues. No longer. After a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in August, the retailer...
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Whistle-blowing Is an American Tradition-And a Bad Sign for Our Democracy

21 minutes ago | Time

Whistle-blowing has long been a vital weapon against public and private wrongdoing in America. Just as FBI whistle-blower Mark Felt called out Richard Nixon's systemic...
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Fiona Hill to say partisan politics drove a 'fictional' narrative on Ukraine

37 minutes ago | NBC News

The former White House official is expected to detail warning about the threat to U.S. democracy posed by Russia.
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Key witnesses will cap intense week in impeachment inquiry

41 minutes ago | WGN TV | 2 articles

WASHINGTON- House impeachment investigators will hear on Thursday from two key witnesses who grew alarmed by how President Donald Trump and others in his orbit were conducting...
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How America's Elites Lost Their Grip

1 hour ago | Time

On March 29, 2003, at a wedding reception in the Harvard Faculty Club, Lawrence W. Reed gave a toast in honor of the friend whom he was serving as best man-one Joseph P...
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Are Public Impeachment Hearings Working?

2 hours ago | NY Times

And is America's tipping system immoral?
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Impeachment hearings: Trump directed Ukraine quid pro quo, key witness says

2 hours ago | ABC | 2 articles

Ambassador Gordon Sondland declared to impeachment investigators that President Trump and his lawyer explicitly sought a "quid pro quo" with Ukraine, leveraging an Oval Office...
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Republicans Seek to Muddy Impeachment Evidence as Their Defense of Trump

2 hours ago | NY Times

They put forward a shifting array of arguments to defend the president against impeachment - some of which conflict.
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“Bombshells” or “Presumptions?”: Gordon Sondland Testimony Divides DC

3 hours ago | FOX News

European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland, a key witness in the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry into President Trump delivered explosive testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday...
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AP FACT CHECK: Claims from the Democratic debate

Ten Democrats seeking the presidency battled it out Wednesday night in a debate just over two months before the primary voting begins. Read more ...

Charles Schwab eyes purchase of TD Ameritrade: reports

Charles Schwab is in talks to buy TD Ameritrade - a blockbuster brokerage deal that could be announced as early as Thursday, reports said. Schwab, headquartered in San... Read more ...

What To Watch For In Impeachment Hearing With Fiona Hill, David Holmes

Members of Congress are set to hear from two witnesses in the week's final hearing: a former White House policy insider and a foreign service officer who said he overheard a... Read more ...

Sondland hearing takeaways: 'Everyone was in the loop'

Gordon Sondland, President Donald Trump's ambassador to the European Union, bolstered Democrats' impeachment narrative Wednesday as he repeatedly talked of a “quid pro quo”... Read more ...

Democratic Debate: Buttigieg looks to prove his staying power

Mayor Pete Buttigieg tops Iowa presidential caucus polls, and now he'll face the scrutiny that comes with his climb as Democrats gather for their fifth 2020 primary debate. Read more ...

Milford schools on two-hour delay due to suspect being loose in the area...

All Milford schools are on a two-hour delay Thursday due to a suspect being loose in the area, school officials said. Read more ...

A Hollywood executive wanted Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman in a biopic

The screenwriter of the film said that when someone suggested Julia Roberts could not play the role, the executive responded, "It was so long ago. No one is going to know the... Read more ...

President Trump responds to Sondland's testimony, insists he wanted...

President Donald Trump is insisting that he wanted "nothing'' from Ukraine and declared that impeachment hearings should be brought to an end. Read more ...

Officials: Teen arrested for using a remote-controlled car to smuggle drugs...

The 16-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested Sunday after border agents spotted him carrying two large duffel bags and ducking in and out of an agent's view. Read more ...

Suspect in custody after 2 coworkers shot, seriously injured at Bladen...

Two people were in serious condition after they were shot by a coworker just after midnight Thursday at a hog processing plant in Tar Heel, south of Fayetteville in Bladen... Read more ...