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The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday is taking a major step forward to impeaching President Donald Trump as it works to approve the articles of impeachment and send them to the House floor for a full chamber vote expected next week.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday endorsed Cenk Uygur, a controversial candidate in the competitive race to replace Katie Hill in California's 25th Congressional District.

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The House Judiciary Committee is now expected to vote Friday, likely on party lines, to send two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the House floor for consideration next week.

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Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin issued 428 pardons in his final days in office after his November defeat to Democrat Andy Beshear, the Louisville Courier Journal reported.

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Americans: Watch the next few hours in the UK closely.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump's top lawyer sketched out a plan Thursday to coordinate closely for an impeachment trial but haven't reached agreement on a final strategy to defend Trump against charges of high crimes and misdemeanors, according to two sources familiar with the conversation.

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Newly sworn-in Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear restored voting rights for over 140,000 former felons in the state through an executive order, his office announced Thursday.

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The House Judiciary Committee is in the midst of a marathon session that will, eventually, end with a final vote on the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. 

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House leaders reportedly expect to lose as many as a half-dozen votes from moderate Democrats representing swing districts or those that backed President Trump in 2016 when the full House votes on impeachment next week. 

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People born in the U.S. territory of American Samoa should be recognized as U.S. citizens, a federal judge in Utah ruled Thursday, in a hard-fought legal battle spanning decades.

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The son of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega faced financial sanctions from the White House on Thursday, after the Trump administration reprimanded him for alleged corruption and money laundering. 

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The Democratic Party can expect to face even more progressive pushback in the 2020 primaries as a prominent climate group on Thursday advanced "insurgent" candidates in order to garner future congressional support for the Green New Deal.

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House Judiciary Committee member Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, claimed Thursday that some Republicans are "enabling" President Trump to obstruct Congress' impeachment inquiry.

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed an executive order Thursday to restore voting rights to nearly 140,000 convicted felons, making good on an inaugural promise he made just days ago after being sworn in. 

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The Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution recognizing as genocide the Ottoman Empire’s mass killing of Armenians a century ago, a move which aggravated already-tense relations between Turkey and the U.S.

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The United States and China have agreed to the terms of a phase one trade deal with China, though the details are still being finalized, a source told FOX Business.

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Gobsmacked Republicans made known their unbridled fury and frustration late Thursday as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., abruptly wrapped up an all-day marathon hearing on the adoption of two articles of impeachment against President Trump by delaying a planned vote on the matter until Friday morning.

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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the oldest candidates in the 2020 presidential race, released a letter from his doctor Thursday that stated he is in "outstanding health."

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GOP lawmakers, who were caught completely off guard by the schedule change, accused Democrats of running a "kangaroo court."

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“The case is so darn weak coming from the House,” the Senate Majority Leader said on Thursday. “We know how it's going to end.”

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Boris Johnson seemed set to stay on as Prime Minister and win the biggest majority for a Conservative government since 1987, when Margaret Thatcher won her third and final election, according to exit polls. Today’s vote has been called the most important election in a generation.

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After a marathon session, the House Judiciary Committee is now poised to vote on two articles of impeachment against President Trump tonight, for abuse of power and obstructing Congress.

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House and Senate appropriators said that they had reached the tentative deal Thursday to keep the government open.

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The candidate also said the Yang Gang needs to avoid attacking his critics.

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"So ridiculous," Trump tweeted. "Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!"

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Three previous attempts to pass the measure were blocked by GOP senators at the request of the White House, the bill's GOP co-sponsor said.

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The former vice president's son came under attack for his work for a Ukrainian company and past substance abuse issues.

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In his confirmation hearing last month, Hahn repeatedly sidestepped questions about the fate of the flavor ban.

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The marathon debate lasted 14 hours and the votes were postponed until Friday morning.

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Former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin issued a pardon to a convicted killer whose brother raised money for his campaign. Bevin pardoned 400 individuals after losing his reelection bid on November 5.

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Three top Democratic presidential candidates are campaigning for the support of Nevada's largest labor union this week. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden attended town halls and faced tough questions about health care from union members. CBS News campaign reporter Alex Tin joined CBSN to wrap up the series for this edition of 2020 Daily Trail Markers.

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Votes are being counted in Great Britain in an election that could go a long way to determining if and how the country finalizes its divorce from Europe. Mark Phillips reports.

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The House Judiciary Committee plans to vote on the articles of impeachment Thursday afternoon.

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is spending tens of thousands to try to counter millions in digital ad spending by GOP interests

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GOP lawmakers continue to push for a swift resolution as the full House votes to impeach President Trump. The Senate would then hold a trial to determine if he should be removed from office.There is a growing divide between the White House and Republican leaders in the Senate on how to conduct the trial. Paula Reid reports.

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A recap of latest polls and data-driven studies from the CBS News Election & Survey Unit

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The House of Representatives is moving toward impeaching a president for only the third time in history. Thursday has seen passionate debate in the Judiciary Committee, and Democrats have been beaten back by repeated Republican attempts to throw out articles of impeachment. Nancy Cordes reports.

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The debate is one of four announced for 2020 by the Democratic National Committee in the early-voting states.

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The decision came after more than 14 hours of rancorous debate about the president’s alleged “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress.”

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Votes on articles alleging abuse of power and obstruction of Congress were expected to follow a highly partisan debate.

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After more than 14 hours of rancorous debate, Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) called a recess and announced the panel would hold votes on two articles of impeachment at 10 a.m.   This is a developing story. It will be updated.

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Republicans are still united, while some Democrats who aren't on this committee are wavering.

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Republicans are still united, while some Democrats who aren't on this committee are wavering.

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Executive order targeting harassment of Jewish college students is latest actions that pleases conservative Jews and evangelicals.

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No controversy even marginally related to the House impeachment proceeding was overlooked as Republicans and Democrats waged a battle over articles.

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No controversy even marginally related to the House impeachment proceeding was overlooked as Republicans and Democrats waged a battle over articles.

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Kentucky prosecutors were “shocked” by some of Matt Bevin’s decisions.

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In a morning tweet, the president said the Swedish climate activist needs to work on anger management and suggested she see a movie with a friend.

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The legal opinions were written during previous Democratic and Republican administrations by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

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The House Judiciary Committee abruptly postponed the expected party-line approval of two articles of impeachment, now set for Friday, which will send the charges to the full House for a vote.

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As the House moves toward what even he says is an inevitable vote to impeach him for high crimes and misdemeanors, President Trump toggles between self-pity and combativeness.

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Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee spent more than 14 hours trying to gut or water down the Democrats’ draft of the articles of impeachment. All their amendments failed.

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After more than a dozen hours of debate, the House Judiciary Committee delayed an expected vote on impeachment articles against President Trump.

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A union in Nevada, the third state to vote in the Democratic primary, told presidential candidates that health care, specifically keeping union health care, is what’s on their members’ minds.

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Jared Kushner, who is overseeing his father-in-law’s re-election campaign, said the Republican Party was being redefined with the “old guard cycling out” and the people coming in “inspired by the Trump revolution.”

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The education secretary said “many students” got “a valuable education” from for-profit colleges as officials planned a round of notifications to applicants for full relief, 95 percent denials.

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Jewish communities across the country viewed the order, which is aimed at college campuses, in competing and discordant ways.

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Ms. Warren, who has ramped up her criticism of her presidential opponents after months of avoiding conflict, issued another rebuke on Thursday in a speech about the economy and corruption.

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And Greta Thunberg gets an activist cameo.

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Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the committee would resume the session at 10 a.m. ET Friday.

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The victory makes Johnson the most electorally successful Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher.

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The president’s @realDonaldTrump account had tweeted and retweeted 115 times by late Thursday night.

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Four Republican women running for Congress in a so-called conservative squad were mocked by Rep. Ilhan Omar and some Twitter critics.

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The media figure announced last month that he's running to fill the seat in California's 25th Congressional District vacated by Democratic Rep. Katie Hill.

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A U.S. District judge in Utah said it was unconstitutional for people born in American Samoa to be considered U.S. “nationals” and not citizens with full rights.

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When the rule is finalized, people struggling with suicidal thoughts will be able to get help by dialing 988.

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The Senate's resolution for the first time condemns the Ottoman Empire's 1915 genocide that killed 1.5 million Armenians, striking a historic blow against Turkey.

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The conservative movement has used Trump’s scandals to advance a radical theory of power.

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On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” former ABC’s “World News” anchor Sam Donaldson said the Republican Party must be “reconstituted as it once was” to be a good party with good people once again. Donaldson said, “Do we

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) surprised his colleagues and the media by announcing late Thursday night that the votes on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump would be postponed until 10:00 a.m. Friday morning.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that if exit polls are correct and the Conservatives are returned to power with a strong majority, then the new government will have "the chance to respect the democratic will of the British people".

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The former Labour Party mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said that Boris Johnson's predicted landslide victory spells "the end" for Jeremy Corbyn, blaming the loss on the "Jewish vote".

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On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that he will coordinate with White House lawyers on how to handle the Senate impeachment trial and “there won’t be any difference between us

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On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that he wouldn’t be surprised if “one or two” Democrats voted against convicting President Trump in the Senate. McConnell said, “My hope is that

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About 72,000 United States-born children delivered every year to foreign tourists, foreign visa workers, and foreign students are rewarded birthright American citizenship, a new study reveals.

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More than 140,000 convicted felons will now be eligible to vote in the state of Kentucky thanks to an executive order by newly elected Democrat Governor Andy Beshear.

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Boris Johnson is projected to have won the largest majority since Thatcher, laying waste to anti-Brexit former Prime Minister John Major.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) campaign is angling to become the first in the Democrat presidential field to open offices and hire field staff in Pennsylvania, the AP reported on Thursday.

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