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The Senate reconvened Wednesday afternoon to hear opening arguments from the House’s impeachment managers.  ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial began on Tuesday, with prosecutors from the House of Representatives and lawyers for the White House debating how the case should proceed. ...Read more

On Tuesday, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first U.S. case of the deadly new coronavirus. The CDC and Washington state officials said the man, in his 30s, was in good condition at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett. ...Read more

With new cases reported in China’s capital and other Asian countries, the number of people known to have been infected with the “coronavirus” jumped from 62 to over 200 on Monday.  Over the weekend, a third patient in the region died of the pneumonia-like virus, bringing the death toll to three. ...Read more

On Monday, thousands of Second Amendment supporters carrying long firearms and wearing stickers reading “Guns Save Lives” descended upon Virginia’s Capitol in Richmond for a widely publicized rally to protest a recent push by state Democrats for comprehensive gun control.  The activists who gathered in Richmond on Monday were heard in large groups reciting the Second Amendment in unison, while others broke out in chants of “we will not comply!” When one speaker asked the crowd if they were ready for gun control, the crowd yelled back, ”No!” ...Read more

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed ‘outrage’ in a meeting Sunday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the death of an American national imprisoned in Egypt since 2013. ...Read more

Authorities say that a gunman opened fire on police in Honolulu Sunday, killing at least two officers before a large, multi-house fire erupted in the neighborhood. Officers were responding to an assault call in a neighborhood at the base of Diamond Head on Sunday morning when they encountered a man with a firearm who opened fire, striking two officers. ...Read more

The Georgia parole board granted clemency to a death row inmate on Thursday, hours before he was to be executed for the murder of a convenience store clerk three decades ago. Georgia’s Board of Pardons and Paroles said in a statement they commuted the death sentence of 58-year-old Jimmy Fletcher Meders to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.  He had been scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EST. ...Read more

The Senate formally accepted the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump shortly after noon on Thursday,  House managers, who will act as prosecutors, arrived on the Senate floor after walking silently across the Capitol to present the articles, with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff taking the lead role. ...Read more

With the help of DNA technology, the mother of an unidentified baby was found dead in a Connecticut parking lot in 1988 has been identified.  The unidentified newborn boy was discovered in a parking lot in South Meriden, Connecticut, back on Jan. 2, 1988. According to the Meriden Police Department, he had died of exposure to the frigid temperatures. Police gave the little boy the name “David Paul.”  For years, the police department tried to identify the baby and his mother, but the case wasn’t solved until investigators used forensic genealogy, submitting the mystery baby’s DNA to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site. ...Read more