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Xi orders resolute efforts to contain new virus as China reports 3rd death

9:55 pm January 20, 2020

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday ordered resolute efforts to curb the spread of a new coronavirus that has infected more than 220 people and resulted in the death of three persons in the country as an expert warned that the virus is contagious between people. Chinese authorities said a third person died over […]

Chinese students fleeing virus face uneasy reception back home

Human-to-human transmission confirmed in China coronavirus

9:43 pm January 20, 2020

Beijing: The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus. Team leader Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert, said two people in Guangdong province in southern China caught the disease from family members, state media said. The National Health Commission task force […]

Crimes? Impeachment prosecutors, defense lay out arguments

1:23 pm January 20, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump’s defense team and the prosecutors of his impeachment are laying out their arguments over whether his conduct toward Ukraine warrants his removal from office. Trump’s lawyers on Sunday previewed their impeachment defense with the questionable assertion that the charges against him are invalid, adopting a position rejected by Democrats as nonsense. […]

Trump denies calling US war dead 'losers,' 'suckers'

House Dems to outline case for removing Trump from office

12:37 am January 19, 2020

Washington: House Democrats were preparing to outline their case for removing President Donald Trump from office in a legal brief due Saturday, as opposing sides in the impeachment case look ahead to the opening of the historic trial in the Senate. Trump on Friday appointed several nationally known lawyers to the team that will defend […]

President Donald Trump impeachment trial to begin with rules fight, long days

Who’s who on Trump’s legal team for impeachment trial

8:53 pm January 18, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump’s legal advocates for his Senate impeachment trial will include a pair of well-known attorneys who have vigorously defended Trump on television and played roles in some of the most consequential legal dramas in recent history. Among those assisting White House counsel Pat Cipollone and longtime Trump attorney Jay Sekulow on the […]