Evening Edition: Trump’s team argues president did nothing wrong in dealings with Ukraine
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President Trump's defense began its presentation Saturday in an abbreviated session of a historic impeachment trial by arguing that Trump had done nothing wrong in his dealings with Ukraine and that Democrats had presented a selective record.
By Elise Viebeck, Karoun Demirjian and Mike DeBonis ●Read more »
President Trump's legal team in his impeachment trial began its defense with a slightly more lawyerly version of one of Trump's favorite tweets: read the transcript.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched into a profanity-laced rant against an NPR reporter after an interview, the news organization says, apparently frustrated by questions he had been asked about Ukraine and former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.
The West Virginian has sided with President Trump on tough votes before, but voting to acquit him would be an even more politically charged decision, one that could help him maintain his reputation as a moderate back home but that would likely make him a pariah within his own party.
China's leader Xi Jinping's warning adding to worries about the scope of a health crisis that has claimed dozens of lives and triggered emergency health measures in cities across China.
China failed to learn one of the most important lessons of the SARS outbreak eight years ago, that wild animal markets are a potent breeding ground for disease with the possibility of ailments jumping to humans, health experts say.
The crackdown occurred after a top cleric removed his support for the months-old movement and accused the protesters of being the "paid tools" of foreign powers.
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