Seven of the top Democratic presidential candidates took the stage for a debate in Los Angeles. The candidates were united on impeachment and immigration, but clashed on economic policies, differed on climate change, and argued over campaign fundraising.
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Almost from the moment he took office, President Donald Trump seized on a theory that troubled his senior aides: Ukraine, he told them on many occasions, had tried to stop him from winning the White House.
After meeting privately in July 2017 with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Trump grew more insistent that Ukraine worked to defeat him, according to multiple former officials familiar with his assertions.

More than 40 Israelis were detained on Wednesday at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow and their passports confiscated.
The passengers, including children, were brought to a pre-prepared area where Russian security personnel questioned them.
Following two hours of questioning and fingerprinting, all passengers were released.
The incident followed the arrest and imprisonment by Russian authorities of 26-year-old Israeli Naama Issachar, who was discovered with 9.5 grams of cannabis in her checked luggage on a connecting flight through Moscow on her way to Israel from India several months ago.

A gunman opened fire Thursday at the headquarters of Russia’s FSB state security service, touching off a shootout that left the attacker and at least one FSB official dead, authorities said.
The FSB, one of the successor agencies to the KGB, described the attack as a terrorist incident, local media reported. At least one FSB officer died in the gun battle in the heart of Moscow, the agency said. The Health Ministry confirmed that five people were wounded in the incident.
No immediate details were made public on the gunman or possible motives.
Russian media initially cited an FSB statement saying three attackers opened fire, and all were killed. Later, the FSB said there was only one gunman.

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies and staunchest defenders in Congress, announced Thursday that he would not seek reelection next year but would instead stay “in the fight” with Trump in an unspecified role.
“For everything there is a season,” Meadows said in a statement. “After prayerful consideration and discussion with family, today I’m announcing that my time serving Western North Carolina in Congress will come to a close at the end of this term.”
Meadows, a former chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus who has served in Congress since 2013, is the 25th House Republican to announce he will not seek reelection next year, according to a tally by the House Press Gallery.

President Trump speaks to press for the first time after the House of Representatives voted to impeach him.
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Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, who emerged in recent weeks as an anti-impeachment Democrat, switched parties Thursday to join the GOP, one day after he opposed both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump – and following weeks of courting by the president, allies of the president and administration officials.
“Very big announcement . . . Jeff will be joining the Republican Party,” Trump said Thursday, with Van Drew by his side in the Oval Office.
The announcement is one of the White House’s first acts of political combat following Wednesday’s impeachment vote, with the intent of casting the Democratic Party as consumed with investigating the president and inhospitable to moderates.

Ronna McDaniel, RNC chairwoman, explains how the Trump campaign has raised millions off the Democrats impeachment of the president.
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Per Snopes.com:

Claim:

The U.S. Constitution states that if a president is impeached by the House but not convicted by the Senate, that person’s first term is nullified and they are eligible to run for office two more times.

True or false?
FALSE.
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