Trial opens with rancor over witnesses and new evidence on Trump’s Ukraine dealings
The partisan kickoff to the Senate proceedings that will determine the president’s fate came amid new allegations by a Trump associate who has tried to implicate the president more directly in an alleged plot to pressure Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election.
Parnas ties Pence’s snub of Ukraine to Giuliani’s pressure campaign
President Trump told the vice president not to attend the new Ukrainian leader’s inauguration a day after Lev Parnas said he failed to extract a promise that Kyiv would announce a Biden investigation.
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In 2017, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, right, had grown alarmed by gaping holes in President Trump’s knowledge of history. (Jabin Botsford/The Post)
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‘You’re a bunch of dopes and babies’: Inside Trump’s stunning tirade against generals
The new book “A Very Stable Genius” documents how President Trump lashed out at attempts by military leaders and diplomats to teach him about U.S. alliances and obligations around the globe.
Poll finds black Americans determined to limit Trump to one term
The Washington Post-Ipsos poll of African Americans reveals fears about whether their children will have a fair shot and a belief that whites don’t fully appreciate the discrimination they face.
Mormon twins teamed up on whistleblower complaint over the church’s billions. It tore them apart.
After a lifetime of shared aims, the decision by one Nielsen twin to go public with their confidential complaint has opened a rift so deep that they stopped speaking.
New evidence emerges as impeachment trial begins
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U.S. officials previously said the attack, which flung some troops from towers with powerful blasts, did not produce injuries.
House Democrats say the judge’s hesitation makes it more likely President Trump will be able to run out the clock and dodge a congressional subpoena for the records until well after the November election.
Some former officials said they worry the department might be dredging up old allegations of wrongdoing to help President Trump go after former FBI director James B. Comey.
At least 869 academic papers have been retracted for flaws that included plagiarism. More could come.
The Massachusetts congresswoman said her new normal is living with alopecia, a skin disease that she began to develop late last year.
Although Washington Wizards forward Davis Bertans grew up in the ice cream capital of Latvia and delighted in pork and potatoes as a puffy-cheeked child, he now credits his reformed diet for improved endurance and strength.
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As Notre Dame rises from the ashes, a tug of war is waged over its transformation
France must once again decide on architectural vision for an icon that has been made and remade for almost nine centuries.
