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The impeachment probe into Donald Trump continues to shed light on his alleged pressure campaign on Ukraine, in which he is accused of using foreign aid to pressure Ukranian President Volodymyr ...

President Donald Trump paid respects Thursday to two Army officers who were killed when their helicopter crashed this week in Afghanistan, holding his salute until each of the flag-draped cases containing their remains were returned to their grieving families.

President Donald Trump pays his respects to two U.S. service members who were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan this week

President Donald Trump awarded the National Medal of Arts to Actor Jon Voight, who surprised him with a dance to music from Midnight Cowboy.

Thurday's ceremony marked the first time during Trump's presidency that he has awarded the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal.

Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion.

A Democratic-led U.S. congressional committee and a Democratic prosecutor in New York on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to prevent President Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm from handing over his financial records.

President Donald Trump plans to pay his respects to two U.S. service members who were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan this week.

Prior to the 2020 presidential election, the Democrats hope to show Americans that Trump is unfit for a second term.

Left-wing filmmaker Rob Reiner, who hardly lets a day go by without railing against President Donald Trump, took another social media swipe at the commander in chief on Thursday by exhuming the Russiagate conspiracy theory and tying it to the current impeachment hearings unfolding on Capitol Hill.

President Donald Trump asked a foreign country to investigate a political rival as he enters his re-election campaign

Hill rocked Republicans Thursday with a firm and unyielding account of how Trump sought to misuse American support for Ukraine as a tool for his own partisan political end.

A former White House officials testimony dismantles a main line of the presidents defense

Former White House official Fiona Hill told Congress that domestic partisan politics have driven a fictional alternative narrative about Ukraine.

Pence, Pompeo, Bolton, Perry: Trumps inner circle often mentioned but missing from impeachment hearings.

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Because he is seen as a Trump ally who had direct contact with the president, Gordon Sondland may be the most pivotal witness in the impeachment process.

Fiona Hill and David Holmes testify in the last of this week's scheduled hearings of the Trump impeachment inquiry.

Holmes, who testified alongside former National Security Council official Fiona Hill, laid out the competing priorities in Ukraine on Thursday.

President Donald Trump's former Russia adviser Fiona Hill urged lawmakers in the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry on Thursday not to promote "politically driven falsehoods" that cast doubt on Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

Former White House adviser Fiona Hill said she found Ambassador Gordon Sondlands testimony not credible when he claimed that it took him many months to connect the Ukrainian energy company Burisma to former Vice President Joe Biden.

More pieces to the impeachment puzzle fell into place Thursday as Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council senior director for Europe and Russia, and David Holmes, counselor for political affairs at the US Embassy in Ukraine, testified at a House Intelligence Committee hearing.

Republicans for the Rule of Law, a conservative group dedicated to “defending the institutions of our republic,” is set to run an advertisement urging the GOP to “stand up” to ...

Nick Akerman claimed that Sondland’s testimony was all that House Democrats needed to make a strong case for impeaching Trump. Though President Donald Trump and most of his GOP allies insist ...

With its public hearings over, the House Intelligence Committee plans to move forward without testimony by some of the key players in the Ukraine drama.

the decision to retain or remove President Trump should be made by those who put him in the White House and not by rabid partisans like Adam Schiff.

A half-dozen GOP senators huddled with White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner as the House impeachment hearing wound down Thursday, in an attempt to prepare for the next step, according to Politico.

Impeachment hearings. A Democratic primary debate. Endless cable news chatter. The meeting of American politics and peak TV.

A week of damning testimony is over. But the people most central to the Ukraine pressure campaign were never going to appear before the inquiry.

In the final day of a week of House impeachment hearings, a former senior White House aide warned that President Trump and his Republican allies have embraced a "fictional narrative" on Ukraine that is propagated by Russian security services to undermine U.S. democracy.

After days of damaging testimony in the Trump impeachment hearings, Democrats claimed they had built an airtight case against the president. Will it matter?

Mike Bloomberg's team is in the process of reserving ad time in the Super Tuesday states, according to two sources.

President Trump's former national security adviser should stop playing coy and testify in the House impeachment probe.

The Trump impeachment inquiry led by House Democrats has been described as a show and a circus. Thats true, but it more closely resembles a merry-go-round.

Protesters interrupted a speech at a historically black college, as the 2020 hopeful struggles to attract essential support

A recent Washington Free Beacon article highlighted Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders‘ “suspiciously smooth forehead” at Wednesday’s presidential debate. The ...

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren pledged to African-Americans on Thursday to use the powers of the federal government to address historic injustice and inequality, as she and other Democratic presidential contenders sought to challenge Joe Biden's dominance among black voters.

"This woman was awesome."

"Senator Bernie Sanders is gaining momentum in the race for the Democratic nomination," said Emerson Polling.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) appeared alongside a Sanders impersonator, comedian James Adomian, for a special "Bernie vs. Bernie" interview posted Thursday to YouTube.

According to a new poll from Emerson College, Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden are leading the Democratic Party primary field. Tied for first place, ...

The rise of several more centrist candidates coincides with an overt push against several policies that some Democrats believe could cost them the general election.

Race is moving to the forefront of the Democratic presidential primary after Pete Buttigieg used the debate stage Wednesday to connect his experiences as a gay man to black Americans long struggle against racism

The singer posted photos of the duo embracing after one of her concerts.

Campaigners condemn attempt to remove protection for sexual orientation from new legislation

Football referee Ryan Atkin and racing driver Charlie Martin are among a new group of Stonewall Sport Champions announced for Rainbow Laces.

Stonewall spokeswoman tells Giles Richards she is planning to become the first transgender driver to appear in the Le Mans 24 Hours, seven years after she left motor sport for facial and reconstruction surgery

At the beginning of the year, the National Center for Transgender Equality, one of the nations largest trans civil rights organizations, appeared, outwardly, to be thriving. Their budget had ballooned from just over half a million dollars in 2009 to over two million less than a decade later, and they had a staff of more than 20, their largest ever. The organization was gearing up for its 2020 U.S. Transgender Survey, a detailed census of trans people that had, upon its initial release in 2015, q

At least four LGBT+ people have been killed in the impoverished and violence-plagued Central American country in the last month, gay and trans rights groups said

While awaiting a Supreme Court ruling, Florida should have statewide protections for all LGBTQ people. Otherwise the federal government should step in a outlaw discrimination against them.

Beauty brand Pantene partnered with global initiative the Dresscode Project to commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance.

In Texas, the case of James Younger points to a disturbing trend in the treatment of gender-confused youth.

A 53-year-old mother of two has sued Fuller Theological Seminary, alleging she was expelled from its graduate program over a same-sex relationship.

Petrass boundless ambition has taken her from rural Germany to L.A. to a world tour for her album, Clarity, performing for sold-out crowds. The recognition is great. Its so amazing, she said. But Im never satisfied. I always want to get bigger.

An analysis by the Web Integrity Project of nearly 30,000 federal government web pages has found that, since Donald Trump's inauguration, there have been fewer resources about discrimination protection for transgender individuals, and fewer instances of LGBTQ-specific information.

The AMA endorsed efforts to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy that seeks to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.

For Republicans, there is no bottom.

The inspector generals long-awaited report is scheduled to be released Dec. 9, with a congressional hearing two days later.

The plan is for the public to confer over turkey. Then Congress could, prospectively, impeach the president during the week of December 16. That will leave Mitch McConnell with some thinking to do. But one lawmaker warned on timing, The wheel is still in spin, nothing is certain yet.

The highly anticipated report will examine aspects of the inquiry, including how and why F.B.I. officials opened it.

The media's "spin" on House Democrat's impeachment inquiry testimony is "abhorrent," Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said Thursday.

Democrats should have cut their losses after Russiagate.

Donald Trump has erupted over the ongoing impeachment inquiry in a series of false and misleading tweets in which he accused investigators of being human scum.Corrupt politician Adam Schiffs lies are growing by the day, the US president tweeted on Thursday morning.

President Donald Trump's former Russia adviser Fiona Hill urged lawmakers in the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry on Thursday not to promote "politically driven falsehoods" that cast doubt on Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

President Donald Trump, facing lawsuits and political demands to release his U.S. tax returns and other financial information, said on Thursday he will release a statement on his finances before the presidential election, and asserted that it was his call on providing the information.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday evening falsely claimed that the president broke the law "again and again and again."

The House Intelligence Committee will wrap up a marathon week of impeachment hearings on Thursday with the testimony of Fiona Hill and David Holmes who could be the final witnesses to appear.

The indicted Giuliani associate helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for the Republican congressman in 2018.