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O’Rourke says Trump should resign during impeachment inquiry

AUSTIN, Texas: Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says President Donald Trump should resign as Congress begins an impeachment investigation. O’Rourke said Saturday there shouldn’t be a fear of an impeachment probe intensifying partisan divisions. The former Texas congressman said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin that he believes impeaching Trump would ultimately unify the […]


What’s next as House committees launch impeachment probes

WASHINGTON: House Democrats are planning a rapid start to their push for impeachment of President Donald Trump, with hearings and depositions starting this coming week. Democratic leaders have instructed committees to move quickly — and not to lose momentum — after revelations that Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate his potential 2020 Democratic […]


Trump ordered aid frozen; more Democrats want impeachment

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump ordered his staff to freeze nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine a few days before a phone call in which he pressured the Eastern European nation’s leader to investigate the family of political rival Joe Biden, a revelation that comes as more Democrats move toward impeachment proceedings. Trump, in remarks to […]


Dem presidential candidates call for Kavanaugh’s impeachment

WASHINGTON: Several Democratic presidential candidates on Sunday lined up to call for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the face of a new, uninvestigated, allegation of sexual impropriety when he was in college. Kavanaugh was confirmed last October after emotional hearings in the Senate over a sexual assault allegation from his high […]


Democrats intensify ‘impeachment’ probe of Trump

Washington: Democrats stepped up their impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump Thursday even as the party’s leaders remained dubious about the political value of the move 14 months before the next presidential election. The House Judiciary Committee approved new procedures that will permit it to demand more documents and testimony from the White House, declaring […]