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President Trump talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, on July 16, 2019. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Ambassador Gordon Sondland testified that “everybody was in the loop.” “Everyone was in the loop,” US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland said to the House Intelligence Committee moreContinue reading “Trump’s desire for investigations morphed into US policy”

President Trump with Vice President Mike Pence at the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York City, New York, on September 23, 2019. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Pence firmly distanced himself from Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s testimony in a House impeachment hearing on Wednesday. Vice President Mike Pence firmly distanced himself from US Ambassador to theContinue reading “Sondland says he told Pence about Trump and Ukraine. Pence says that “never happened.””

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during The Iowa Democratic Party Liberty & Justice Celebration on November 1, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. | Joshua Lott/Getty Images Data suggests some of her supporters have migrated to candidates who were previously their second choice. After a blockbuster debate performance in June, Sen. Kamala Harris shot up inContinue reading “Kamala Harris’s decline in the polls, explained”

Honduran migrants heading to the United States travel aboard a pick-up van near Guatemala City on January 17, 2019. | JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images The administration has started sending migrants back to Guatemala. The Trump administration began to deport migrants seeking protection at the southern border back to Guatemala on Wednesday, the first migrants to beContinue reading “Trump’s agreements in Central America are dismantling the asylum system as we know it”

Javier Zarracina/Vox The plague is still a problem around the world — including in the US. If you thought it went the way of bloodletting and medicinal leeches, think again. Three people have just come down with the plague. Yes, the plague. In China, two patients were diagnosed with the infectious disease earlier this month. WhileContinue reading “We never really got rid of the plague. 3 people in China just caught it.”

Universal Pictures The new song Swift wrote with Andrew Lloyd Webber has a lot to teach us about cats, “Memory,” and fangirls. “Beautiful Ghosts,” the song that Taylor Swift put words to for Tom Hooper’s upcoming Cats movie, has arrived — and guess what? Swift might be Cats creator and famed Broadway composer Andrew LloydContinue reading “Taylor Swift’s “Beautiful Ghosts” might be the best part of the Cats movie”

Prince Andrew in Thailand in November 2019 for an ASEAN summit. | Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images The Duke of York hoped to clarify his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in the BBC interview. He only raised new questions. The United Kingdom’s Prince Andrew announced on Wednesday that he will be stepping down from public duties “for theContinue reading “Prince Andrew steps back from public duties after Jeffrey Epstein interview”

Mark Wilson/Getty Images The talking points were scrawled in all caps on an Air Force One notepad. While ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland presented damning testimony before the House Intelligence committee’s impeachment inquiry hearings on Wednesday morning, President Trump responded from the South Lawn of the White House. “In terms of testimony with AmbassadorContinue reading “Read Trump’s very large, very strange Sharpie notes on impeachment”

President Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, announced on October 23, 2019, that the US will lift sanctions on Turkey. | Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Sondland’s bombshell testimony demands answers from top officials. Rep. Devin Nunes is actually right about something: The key witnesses inContinue reading “America needs to hear — under oath — from Pompeo, Perry, Pence, and Bolton”

President Trump reads from his notes as he talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House on November 20, 2019. | Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images Sondland, who gave $1 million to Trump’s campaign, just got the “coffee boy” treatment. Last month, President Donald Trump described Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the EuropeanContinue reading “Trump before Sondland’s testimony: “He’s a great American.” Trump after: “This is not a man I know well.””