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The author, who has lived in a New York homeless shelter since May, reflects on ways to make life safer for those it serves.

18 Jan 2020 12:00pm GMT

Polling has shown a relatively tight four-way race at the top, and a new method of reporting results could give multiple campaigns the ability to claim a win.

17 Jan 2020 7:40pm GMT

The legal team representing President Trump in his Senate impeachment trial will include some familiar faces, especially for regular viewers of Fox News.

17 Jan 2020 4:24pm GMT

Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas said he was giving media interviews about his role in President Trump's attempts convince Ukrainian officials to announce an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden because he wanted to protect himself from Attorney General William Barr.

17 Jan 2020 3:08am GMT

Warren's shift from defense to offense has done little to quell tensions on the left - tensions that grew so acute by Thursday that a coalition of dozens of leading progressive groups felt compelled to call for a truce.

16 Jan 2020 11:13pm GMT

President Trump and one of his top allies in Congress have taken a curious interest in Bernie Sanders in recent days.

16 Jan 2020 10:17pm GMT

A recent push to eliminate cash bail for people suspected of crimes has received intense pushback by those who say the reforms let dangerous criminals go free. Is ending cash bail the right choice?

16 Jan 2020 10:06pm GMT

The final procedural requirements for the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump were met on Thursday afternoon when Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in by Senate President Pro Tem Chuck Grassley. Roberts, who will preside over the impeachment trial, then swore in all 100 sitting senators.

16 Jan 2020 8:48pm GMT

Among the many revelations in Lev Parnas's spate of recent interviews was his claim that Vice President Pence was "in the loop" regarding President Trump's plan to withhold U.S. military aid to Ukraine unless its government publicly announced an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.

16 Jan 2020 7:59pm GMT

President Trump had no authority to withhold some $250 million in military aid to Ukraine that had been appropriated by Congress, the Government Accountability Office found in a report released Thursday morning.

16 Jan 2020 6:38pm GMT

With preparations for the Senate impeachment trial underway, there are still several days before next week's opening arguments, leaving a vacuum Republicans and Democrats will fill with debate over whether witnesses will be allowed to testify.

16 Jan 2020 6:31pm GMT

President Trump's most effective path forward, not only to prevail in the impeachment proceedings but to end this ordeal and create a strong position from which to govern, is to follow the Clinton model rather than the Nixon path.

16 Jan 2020 5:23pm GMT

A number of progressive groups pushed to calm the tensions between the campaigns of the two presidential hopefuls.

16 Jan 2020 4:30pm GMT

For at least two decades, sitting presidents have challenged the idea that the three branches of government are coequal, and that while each branch has different powers, no branch is more powerful than any other.

16 Jan 2020 10:01am GMT

Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg says women who are debating whether or not to support him should "just look at the record."

16 Jan 2020 3:33am GMT

Lev Parnas, a key player in President Trump's efforts to obtain a Ukrainian investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, gave a bombshell interview to MSNBC Wednesday that undercut the president's defense just hours before the Senate was scheduled to begin his impeachment trial.

16 Jan 2020 2:56am GMT