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Impeachment inquiry update: What the past week revealed about the Ukraine affair
President Trump deputized lawyer Rudy Giuliani to run a shadow foreign policy for Ukraine outside the State Department, witnesses told Congress this past week.
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NASA’s first all-female spacewalk set for Friday
Only 15 women have participated in spacewalks, and all were accompanied by men.
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Powerful Democratic Congressman, Elijah Cummings has died
Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become the powerful chairman of the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, died early Thursday.
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6 takeaways from the 4th Democratic presidential primary debate
The fourth Democratic debate was a long one. You might not have made it through the whole thing, but there were some potentially consequential moments.
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New report stacks up ‘Medicare for All’ and the ‘public option’ by cost and coverage
A new Urban Institute report prices out popular reforms like “Medicare for All” and a so-called public option. Who will they cover? What will they cost?
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Listen 4:04MeToo leader launches new hashtag to mobilize voters
It reflects a frustration among activists that issues of sexual violence and harassment have largely been absent from the debate stage and campaign trail.
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7 questions ahead of the next Democratic primary debate
The last few weeks have been dominated by the congressional impeachment inquiry into President Trump. But Democratic presidential candidates take center stage again this week.
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How to know which impeachment polls to believe – and which to skip
Pollsters are trying their best to track public opinion about the House Democrats’ decision to initiate an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
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Democratic candidates divided on health care will soon be drowning in data
The Urban Institute will publish the first report of the 2020 election cycle to price out popular reforms like “Medicare for All” and a so-called public option.
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Listen 6:49Biden takes on Trump with a sweeping ethics plan, amid push back over Ukraine
Joe Biden unveiled an ethics plan on Monday that directly targets President Trump, accusing him of creating the "most corrupt administration in modern history."
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Impeachment dominates, but much other work awaits Congress
Impeachment may have leapfrogged to the top of the national agenda, however, members of Congress are returning to Washington this coming week with mixed hopes of success.
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Cory Booker on impeachment: ‘I swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution’
New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker supports Trump's impeachment inquiry regardless of polls showing that most Americans prefer to wait for the next election.
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Anatomy of the phone call now imperiling Trump’s presidency
There were dozens of ears listening to Trump's phone call with the leader of Ukraine that is at the center of a House impeachment inquiry, as many eyes that saw what he said.
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Heads up: A ruling on the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act is coming
A decision in the latest court case to threaten the future of the Affordable Care Act could come as soon as this month.
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Joe Biden calls for Trump impeachment ‘to preserve our constitution’
Up until now Biden had reserved judgment, saying he supported the House's impeachment inquiry and wanted to see what the facts showed.
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