Of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, 185 have said that they are for an impeachment inquiry or impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump as they accuse him, based on a whistleblower complaint in the U.S. intelligence community, allegedly conditioning around $450 million in U.S. assistance to Ukraine in exchange for investigating former U.S. Vice President and 2020 […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine’s new leader to work with lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, according to a rough transcript summarizing a July 25 call that was released Wednesday. A five-page summary of the call detailed a conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. […]

The White House released a memo of President Donald Trump’s July 25 telephone conversation with Ukraine’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The White House says a “memorandum of a telephone conversation” is not a verbatim transcript; it records the notes and recollections of Situation Room duty officers and National Security Council staff “assigned to listen and memorialize the conversation […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Sen. Mitt Romney says that he has read the rough transcript of the call between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president and finds it “deeply troubling.” Asked whether what he saw in the rough transcript amounted to direct quid pro quo, Romney said that “if the president of the United […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A week ago, impeachment was not the flavor of the season. The interest in Robert Mueller’s special counsel report into Russian election interference had waned, and the testimony by Mueller before Congress in July failed to advance the narrative much. President Donald Trump seemed to have come through the controversy politically unscathed. […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty-eight floors above Manhattan, President Donald Trump watched his legacy change and his political future grow more uncertain. The president, back in his hometown of New York for the U.N. General Assembly, was taking “executive time” at his Trump Tower penthouse late Tuesday afternoon when Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the […]

Washington – Congressional Democrats on Monday pressed their demands for full disclosure of a whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump and intensified their calls for impeachment. Trump insisted anew he did nothing wrong in a conversation with Ukraine’s leader that is at the center of the complaint. Republicans remained largely silent amid reports that the […]

United Nations – President Donald Trump was addressing a conference for world leaders at the United Nations, but he was talking to his political base Monday as he breezed by a major climate change summit and focused instead on religious persecution, an issue that resonates with evangelical supporters who want to see him reelected next […]

United Nations – U.S. President Donald Trump says another meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “could happen soon.” Trump didn’t elaborate Monday at the start of UN meetings in New York about a possible fourth meeting with Kim over the North’s expanding nuclear program. North Korean nuclear talks have been stalled despite past […]

Jerusalem – Israeli President Reuven Rivlin invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, to his residence on Monday in an effort to sway the leaders of the two largest Knesset factions to form a unity government and end the political gridlock that has emerged from the country’s Sept. 17 election. […]