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Power Up: Democrats and Trumps lawyers just previewed their impeachment trial strategy. Heres a breakdown. Jacqueline Alemany Good Wednesday morning. Tips, comments, recipes? Reach out and stay warm. – thanks for waking up with us.  ��: "[T]he Biden administration plans to significantly raise the cap on refugees allowed into the United States every year, according to two people familiar with its plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private discussio...

Scholars suggest a Reconstruction-era remedy, instead of impeachment, after Trump incited mob.

The Daily 202: GOP looks to win back Senate in 2022, as new NRSC chairman defends vote to reject Pa. results James Hohmann with Mariana Alfaro Democrats taking control of the Senate after winning upsets in both Georgia runoffs would have been the biggest political story of any ordinary week, but the seismic news was quickly overshadowed when a pro-Trump mob took over the Capitol. House Democrats formally introduced an article of impeachment this morning against President Tr...

Fixing the vaccine distribution system in United States must be top priority, experts say Paulina Villegas, Brittany Shammas, Antonia Noori Farzan, Erin Cunningham, Adam Taylor, Kim Bellware, Hamza Shaban © Andrew Harnik/AP Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) stops to look at the damage to the Capitol building early Thursday morning. As new coronavirus cases in the United States rise precipitously after the holidays, health experts are urging states and the federal government to speed ...

What’s new? After years of political turmoil, elections for Venezuela’s National Assembly ended in a predictable victory for President Nicolás Maduro. Mainstream opposition parties boycotted the poll and, alongside the U.S. and Latin American and European countries, accuse the government of rigging the elections. Why does it matter? Elimination of the opposition majority in parliament will greatly complicate efforts to resolve the standoff with the government. The boycott split the opp...

What’s new? Crime and violence have simmered along the lengthy Colombian-Venezuelan frontier for decades. But the regional spillover of Venezuela’s political conflict and economic collapse has caused ties between the two states to fray as well, amid border closures, a migrant exodus and rival military exercises. Why does it matter? Numerous armed groups clash with one another and harm citizens along a border marked by abundant coca crops and informal crossings. High bilateral tensions c...