Sunday's Headlines: Trump’s team argues president did nothing wrong in dealings with Ukraine
Assessing the Trump team's 6-point defense; Pompeo's accusations against reporter draw denial from NPR; Trump wants a Senate Democrat to vote for acquittal. White House eyes Joe Manchin.; Coronavirus cases surging across China as authorities mobilize medical resources; The new viral threat: What you need to know; Trump's lawyers are absolutely entitled to their own facts; Does a sport that gambles with the lives of horses really belong in our world?; Why red and blue America can't hear each other anymore; The loser of this year's election may not concede. Their voters won't, either.; Bernie Sanders isn't sexist. The whole system is.; Trump won't protect our elections, so private companies are doing it; Biden, Sanders breaking away from candidates among Democrats nationwide, Post-ABC News poll finds; In Syria, U.S. steps up Islamic State operation — but for how long, no one knows; Trump should apologize for minimizing troops' injuries, oldest major U.S. veterans group says; Ohio judge says he relies on a hunch to call ICE when he suspects defendants are undocumented; What reparations mean to one American family
In a two-hour presentation that reserved their most provocative attacks for Monday, members of President Trump's legal team echoed the president's justifications for his actions toward Ukraine and sought to plant doubts about both the prosecutors' case and its lead advocate, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.).
By Elise Viebeck, Mike DeBonis and Rachael Bade ●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's statement Saturday accused the NPR reporter of lying but did not address her explosive account of their conversation. Pompeo has grown increasingly testy as his own conduct relating to Ukraine and Iran has been questioned.
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.
The two men, pillars of competing ideologies, are locked in a more crowded knot of candidates in Iowa and New Hampshire, where results could alter the national findings.
Campaign 2020●By Dan Balz and Emily Guskin ●Read more »
U.S. troops in Syria, like those in neighboring Iraq, shifted their focus from anti-extremist operations to force protection after a Jan. 3 strike killed Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
Tracy Jan says reparations mean more than money for a family whose story includes slavery and Japanese American internment. Geoff Edgers explains the hidden history of Roberta Flack's hit song "Killing Me Softly."
Post Reports | Listen Now●By The Washington Post ●Read more »
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