The party is bracing for a pitched battle with President Trump that will likely overshadow its policy agenda. But Democrats say they do not want impeachment to dominate the election.ImageHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressing New Jersey Democrats on Friday in Atlantic City. Ms. Pelosi insisted the impeachment inquiry “has nothing to do with the election.”CreditCreditMichelle…
Lindsey Graham stirred up a blast from the past on Saturday in a Twitter message intended to defend Donald Trump, saying he hopes a president can’t be impeached “based on hearsay testimony.” Within minutes, the long memory of Twitter users had the name “Linda Tripp” blowing up on social media as people recalled the former…
Starship is the new rocket system that SpaceX is developing to ferry dozens of people to Mars.Elon Musk, the company's founder and CEO, plans to unveil the latest design of the fully reusable launch system on Saturday around 8 p.m. ET.Musk is slated to speak at the company's launch site at southern tip of Texas.…
The sculpture, of an African-American man in streetwear and mounted on a horse, was unveiled Friday and will eventually move to Richmond, Va., home to a number of Confederate memorials.ImageThe sculpture, called “Rumors of War,” is Kehinde Wiley’s first work of public art and his first major piece since his portrait of President Obama.CreditCreditRachel Papo…
It’s a new dawn at Wells Fargo. On Tuesday, the San Francisco-based financial services giant announced that Charles Scharf, the CEO of Bank of New York Mellon, will take over as Wells Fargo’s CEO and president starting Oct. 21. The news caps off a months-long search for a permanent successor to Tim Sloan, who resigned…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new information on the ongoing investigation into illnesses and deaths tied to vaping.CDC collected information from people who experienced an illness linked to vaping. 77% reported using products containing THC, the principle psychoactive ingredient in cannabis."The latest findings from the investigation into lung injuries associated with…
Lawmakers said they could potentially draft articles of impeachment over Ukraine by the end of October.Image“We want to know what Ukraine understood was expected of them before they even had this July phone call with the president of the United States,” said Representative Adam B. Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee.CreditCreditAnna Moneymaker/The New York…
The whistleblower complaint at the heart of Congress' impeachment inquiry opened a window Thursday into government computer systems that White House and other government employees use to share and manage classified information on a day-to-day basis. The process is complicated. There are unclassified and classified systems that are not interconnected. Then there is still another…
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Wednesday. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The whistleblower complaint lodged by an intelligence official in August that is now at the center of an impeachment inquiry about US President Donald Trump was declassified on Thursday. Among…
ImagePrime Minister Boris Johnson back home in London on Wednesday after cutting short his trip to New York.CreditCreditNeil Hall/EPA, via ShutterstockSept. 25, 2019Updated 6:47 p.m. ETLONDON — A day after suffering a crushing rebuke from his country’s highest court, a notably unchastened Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared before a hastily reconvened Parliament and doubled down…
