AUSTIN, Texas -- Two days before he goes on trial in the U.S. Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors, President Donald Trump came to Austin on Sunday to celebrate the administration's breakthrough trade deals at the annual convention of the politically consequential American Farm Bureau Federation. Its 6 million member families are the backbone...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's legal team will argue in his Senate trial that abuse of power is not an impeachable offense, while Democrats called that claim "absurdist" and a signal that the president has no defense against the case against him.

The third impeachment trial in U.S. history will start in earnest on Tuesday, after its ceremonial...Read more

NEW YORK -- Alan Dershowitz, the former Harvard Law School professor, says he sees no grounds for the impeachment of President Donald Trump ahead of the Senate trial that begins on Tuesday.

"If the allegations are not impeachable, then this trial should result in an acquittal, regardless of whether the conduct is regarded as OK by you or by me ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Congress is being stonewalled by intelligence agency officials who refuse to testify in public for fear of drawing President Donald Trump's ire, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said.

"Part of their job is to speak truth to power," Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, said Sunday on "This Week" on ABC. "The ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Joe Biden has been holding on as front-runner in the Democratic presidential race, but the former vice president lags most of his leading rivals in building a visible primary campaign in Minnesota, a potential battleground state in November.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, with campaign headquarters in Minneapolis and backing from most of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's legal team on Saturday accused the House of a "brazen and unlawful attempt" to overturn the 2016 election in a scathing response to the impeachment trial summons issued by the Senate ahead of its trial to decide whether to remove the president from office.

The House, in a separate 111-page brief filed ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's legal team is launching a full-throated counteroffensive, arguing that the impeachment process violates the Constitution and is an attempt to overturn the 2016 election and interfere with the vote later this year.

Sources close to the legal team argued Saturday, ahead of a deadline to respond to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. National Archives says it made a mistake by blurring images depicting protest signs critical of President Donald Trump in a promotional display for a new exhibit on women's suffrage.

"As the National Archives of the United States, we are and have always been completely committed to preserving our archival holdings, ...Read more

PALM BEACH, Fla. -- President Donald Trump gave a new justification for killing Qassem Soleimani, telling a gathering of Republican donors that the top Iranian general was "saying bad things about our country."

"How much are we going to listen to?" Trump said Friday, according to remarks from a fundraiser obtained by CNN. He also used a vulgar ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump will offer his first formal impeachment response Saturday, on the same day that House Democrats reveal their legal strategy to argue that he should be removed from office.

The case that House prosecutors send to the Senate will reference new evidence that wasn't part of the impeachment inquiry, including new...Read more

Jan. 22 marks the 47th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion nationwide. Those on both sides of the furious debate say this could be the year when everything changes.

In March, the Supreme Court will hear its first abortion case since Justice Brett Kavanaugh replaced Anthony Kennedy, who had been the swing vote ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Sometimes Rudy Giuliani says he's "private counsel" to private citizen Donald Trump. Other times the president says Giuliani is acting on the White House's behalf. And on occasion, he's a political surrogate hitting the trail for Trump's 2020 campaign.

Giuliani's overlapping efforts helped trigger Trump's impeachment by the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- As he heads into a fraught Senate impeachment trial, President Donald Trump boosted his defense team Friday by adding a bevy of high-wattage outside lawyers who carry considerable political baggage but are practiced in the arts of legal theatrics and comfortable in the glare of TV lights.

Chief among them were Alan Dershowitz, who...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who led the drive to impeach President Bill Clinton over a sex scandal a generation ago, will now argue for dismissing impeachment charges against President Donald Trump over his pressuring of Ukraine to investigate his leading presidential rival in the 2020 election.

Starr brings to the task...Read more