Evening Edition: Dershowitz distances himself from White House response to impeachment charges
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The comments from Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard Law emeritus professor who recently joined President Trump's legal team, come as both sides preview their arguments for the impeachment trial, which begins in earnest this week.
A cascade of revelations by the former associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani overshadowed the opening of the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history, raising a host of new questions about the Ukraine pressure campaign.
The president's maximalist approach to diplomacy has become a hallmark of his administration's foreign policy, one that has scored him some short-term victories, been derided as extortion by his detractors.
Many attending the World Economic Forum — an annual gathering of billionaires and elites in a Swiss ski town — are alarmed by campaigns to "tax the rich," break up big companies and enact a Green New Deal.
Gun owners leaned on the city council to pass a resolution declaring support for the Second Amendment. Now they plan to head to Richmond for a massive gun rights rally.
The opposition leader's trip to Colombia and beyond is his first travel abroad in nearly a year. Senior opposition officials are hoping for a meeting with President Trump.
Leading food safety lawyer Bill Marler, who represented hundreds of Jack in the Box victims in the 1990s, wants the Department of Agriculture to ban some of the most virulent bacteria on meat.
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