The National Archives on Wednesday installed an original photograph of the 2017 Women’s March days after removing an altered one that censored signs referencing women’s anatomy and President Donald Trump’s name. The original photograph, taken by Getty Images’ Mario Tama, shows a sea of people marching down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, on January 21,…… MORE
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Thursday played a 1999 video of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham arguing that “high crimes” don’t “even need to be a crime,” a statement that runs counter to a central Republican talking point in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. “What’s a high crime? How about an important person hurt somebody…… MORE
A bill that would expand voting rights to some immigrants who are not US citizens was introduced Thursday in the New York City Council. City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, is sponsoring the legislation, which would give the right to vote in municipal elections to New York residents who are legal…… MORE
Senators and aides in each party say there is an effort in the works to hold a short, morning-only impeachment trial session on Saturday to hear the beginning of the opening arguments from President Donald Trump’s defense counsel and then allowing senators to leave town for the weekend. The plan is not finalized but seemed…… MORE
Television networks and cable channels have gone gavel-to-gavel this week on coverage of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, airing every word from every speaker into the middle of the night. But what viewers are seeing is not the full picture. The cameras and video feeds distributed to the public are controlled by…… MORE
One of the United Nations investigators involved in assessing the hack of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s telephone says other people in regular contact with the powerful Saudi Crown Prince — such as President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — should be careful and replace their phones. Agnes Callamard, one of two UN special rapporteurs who…… MORE
CNN has canceled the Democratic presidential town halls scheduled to take place next week ahead of the Iowa caucuses because of the ongoing impeachment trial, a CNN spokesperson said Thursday. The network is working on rescheduling the town halls, the spokesperson said. CNN was scheduled to host the leading contenders for the Democratic nomination at…… MORE
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders leads in New Hampshire, continuing to widen his top position, according to a new WBUR poll conducted by MassInc. out Thursday. Sanders runs well ahead of the rest of the group, with 29% support among likely Democratic voters in the first-in-the-nation primary, followed by 17% support for former South Bend, Indiana,…… MORE
President Donald Trump signaled this week that he’s open to cutting federal entitlements to reduce the federal deficit, despite previously campaigning on protecting Medicare and Social Security. Asked by CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, whether entitlements would ever be on his plate, Trump responded, “At some point they will be.” “We…… MORE
Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that Israel’s Prime Minister and opposition leader will visit the White House next week to discuss “regional issues as well as the prospect of peace.” The announcement comes as reports suggest a potential reveal of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan could be imminent. Pence, who was in…… MORE
