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Senate Republicans plan speedy Trump trial
Senate Republicans released their partisan impeachment trial resolution on Monday evening, a blueprint that could result in President Donald Trump’s swift acquittal.
Senate Majority Leader...
Trump’s Impeachment trial to get under way
The Senate trial of President Donald Trump is due to get underway in earnest at 1 pm (1800 GMT) on Tuesday, only the third...
Trump will be represented by former Bill Clinton special prosecutors
President Donald Trump will be represented by former Bill Clinton special prosecutors Kenneth Starr and Robert Ray, plus retired Harvard constitutional law professor Alan...
Trump: US Senators sworn in for historic trial
The 100 lawmakers of the US Senate were sworn in on Thursday as jurors for the impending impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
Chief Justice...
Speaker Pelosi appointed seven House Democrats
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has appointed a team of seven House Democrats to serve as prosecutors in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
She named Reps. Adam...
House to Vote Today on Limiting Trump’s Actions Against Iran –...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi set a House vote for Thursday on limiting President Donald Trump’s ability to take military action against Iran as Democratic criticism...
Iran: Reconsider travelling to Nigeria, US warns citizens
Following the Friday killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a drone airstrike, the United States has cautioned Americans to reconsider travelling to or...
Omoyele Sowore nominated for U.S Prisoner Of Conscience Honour
Mr Omoyele Sowore has been nominated and may be given the ‘Prisoner of Conscience honour award’ by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of...
New US ambassador pledges to leverage diplomacy to Nigeria
Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard, the new United States Ambassador to Nigeria has pledged to leverage US diplomacy, foreign assistance, and the private sector to...
US lawmakers to debate impeachment against Trump
The US lawmakers in the House of Representatives are due to start a debate on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on...
Texas Based Doctor Calls for Igbo Massacre, Goes into Hiding
Dr. Adeniran Abraham Ariyo MD called for the massacre of Igbos in Nigeria the way Nigerians are being killed in South Africa.
Dr. Abraham Ariyo...
US to exhume remains of Pearl Harbor dead for identification
The remains of nearly 400 US servicemen killed at Pearl Harbor are to be exhumed so they may be identified and given individual burials,...
Power failure hits American White House, other areas
A power outage swept the Washington area Tuesday, hitting the White House, the Capitol and the State Department and knocking out electricity for thousands...
How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House
Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the State Department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White...
Pope Francis to meet Obama at the White House
The White House on Thursday confirmed that Pope Francis would meet with President Barack Obama at the White House during his visit to U.S....
Real leaders don’t tear things up. GEORGE W. BUSH: This...
Former President George W. Bush has a simple explanation for why he almost never criticizes his successor: He feels it undermines the office of...
U.S. leads 12 air strikes against Islamic State
The United States and its coalition partners struck four units of Islamic State militants amid 11 air strikes in Iraq since early Monday, the...
