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Authorities are cracking down on the places correspondents may go, with whom they may talk and for how long. News outlets don't want to go along.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen asked a federal watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, to assess whether Trump's actions last year had broken a law on handling appropriated funds.

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While the seven Democratic presidential candidates agreed that the ultimate goal was to beat President Trump in 2020, tensions over fundraising and experience took the spotlight during the debate.

The top seven Democratic presidential candidates take the stage tonight at 8 p.m. in the sixth and smallest debate yet.  Get live analysis here. 

The bill includes some policy surprises and increases in funding for several key public health priorities. And it cuts the few remaining taxes that were paying for Obamacare.

Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., completed a rare impeachment report — like ones filed for former Presidents Nixon and Clinton — ahead of a House vote expected this week. It includes Republicans' views.

House Democrats have unveiled their allegations. After it finalizes the articles, the Judiciary Committee is expected to send them to the full House for a vote on whether to impeach.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been examining the way authorities used their surveillance powers in the Russia investigation. His final report was released on Monday.

GOP lawmakers have released their findings about the investigation. They maintain that the process was sham — and unfair to President Trump.

Ten candidates are on stage in Atlanta on Wednesday night — amid an impeachment inquiry into President Trump and a shifting field. NPR reporters have live analysis and fact checks of their remarks.

The diplomat testified Nov. 15 that he overheard President Trump telling Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the EU, that he was seeking political investigations from Ukraine's president.

At the time of her deposition on Nov. 7, her lawyer told NPR that Williams' testimony "will largely reflect what is already in the public record."

The remarks were part of an opening statement in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

The 16-minute call was conducted from Air Force One and came two months before the now-infamous July 25 conversation between the two men that prompted the impeachment inquiry into Trump.

Kent said Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's lawyer, and his associates led a smear campaign against Marie Yovanovitch, the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

In public testimony, the top diplomat for the U.S. in Ukraine described a conversation, heard by a member of his staff, between the president and Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the EU.

Croft worked on the National Security Council. Her transcript is among those released by House investigators ahead of the first open hearings of the inquiry.

Anderson served as special adviser for Ukraine negotiations under U.S. envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker from 2017 through July 12.