Joni Ernst just said the quiet part out loud about the Senate impeachment trial

Ex-WH chief of staff Kelly says he believes Bolton's account
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly says he believes John Bolton's allegation that President Donald Trump told the former national security adviser that US security aid to Ukraine was conditioned ...

Biden: GOP senator Joni Ernst just proved our point about Trump
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says Sen. Joni Ernst's (R-IA) comments about the impeachment testimony impacting Biden's chances in the state prove the real motivation behind Trump's attack on the former vice ...

GOP senator: We've 'got to be able to see' Bolton manuscript before witness vote
Republican senators began Monday in a bad spot. They ended it feeling like they were in a better one, at least for now. What changed? A late-morning pep talk from Senate Majority ...

Analysis: The real reason Kelly Loeffler attacked Mitt Romney over impeachment
The attack came seemingly out of the blue.

Fox News does an about-face on Bolton
John Bolton used to be a paid contributor on Fox News before leaving to become President Donald Trump's national security adviser, but now Bolton is a target for criticism from some of ...

Analysis: Trump just praised Pompeo for berating an NPR reporter. Yup, really.
President Donald Trump took time -- in the midst of announcing his administration's long-awaited but likely-to-fail plan for Middle East peace -- to praise his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Key Republican on witnesses: 'I think that Bolton probably has something to offer us'

House manager Adam Schiff says it's GOP complaints that are making a strong case to allow depositions as the trial enters its next phase

GOP senator says the 'overwhelming consensus' is it's time to end the trial

Analysis: Trump lawyers invoke 'danger' of removing Trump, Democrats say it's 'dangerous' to keep him
Almost all the major players on Capitol Hill have lamented that these are dangerous times in Washington. But if you want to know why -- it depends who you ask.

Roll the tape: New comments echo McCarthy on Benghazi
Sen. Joni Ernst's recent comments about the impact of the impeachment inquiry on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are reminiscent of Rep. Kevin McCarthy's comments on the impact of the Hillary Clinton ...

Analysis: This change in voting patterns explains the trial standoff
The virtually lockstep Republican defense of President Donald Trump so far during his impeachment trial marks a new milestone in the Senate's long-term evolution into a more partisan and regimented institution that ...

Opinion: Trump's defense team failed at their most important job
On Monday, President Donald Trump's defense team failed at their most important job -- making a clear and compelling argument that there was no need to hear from former National Security Adviser ...

Analysis: Bolton bombshell takes a backseat
Donald Trump's impeachment trial defense is a perfect mirror for his presidency.

Dershowitz: Trump laywer says Elizabeth Warren 'doesn't understand the law' after she criticizes his presentation
President Donald Trump's attorney Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday shot back at Sen. Elizabeth Warren after the Massachusetts Democrat assailed his presentation in Trump's Senate impeachment trial as hard to follow and tweeted ...

Caribbean earthquake felt as far as Havana and Miami
A tsunami threat message has been issued by the US National Weather Service's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Tuesday near Jamaica.

Trump unveils controversial Middle East plan alongside Netanyahu
When President Donald Trump unveils his administration's long-anticipated proposal to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the White House on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be at his side.

Kushner: Palestinians have blown every chance so far
CNN's Christiane Amanpour talks to President Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner about the President's Middle East plan.

Democrats look to flip red Texas House seat in runoff election
Democrat Elizabeth Markowitz is facing off on Tuesday against Republican Gary Gates in a Texas House runoff election that could provide a glimpse of the political environment in the state's suburbs.

Lawmaker says he regrets comparing gender reassignment and Nazi experiments
A South Dakota state lawmaker said Tuesday that he regrets recently comparing doctors who assist in the gender reassignment process for transgender youth in the state to Nazi doctor experiments that occurred ...

Authorities believe estranged husband of missing CT mom attempted suicide

Washington Post criticized for suspending reporter over Kobe Bryant tweets
The Washington Post was criticized on Monday for placing one of its reporters on administrative leave after she generated controversy for a series of tweets posted in the wake of Kobe Bryant's ...

Harvard professor among three charged with lying about Chinese government ties
A Harvard University professor and two other Chinese nationals were federally indicted in three separate cases for allegedly lying to the US about their involvement with China's government, the US attorney for ...

Ex-Belgian king admits fathering child in affair
A DNA test led the former king of Belgium, Albert II, to concede that he is the father of Delphine Boel, who filed a paternity suit against him in 2013.