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A Recap Of What Happened This Week In The Impeachment Inquiry

4:33pm November 01, 2019

The impeachment inquiry entered an open phase as the House voted to formalize the probe this week. Committees heard from key witnesses about the president conditioning military aid on investigations.

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Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Head To Iowa For Liberty And Justice Celebration

4:33pm November 01, 2019

by Asma Khalid

Democratic presidential hopefuls are in Iowa for the Liberty and Justice celebration, a storied event where candidates show off their organization. It helped launch Barack Obama's 2008 victory.

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Trump Set To Pick His 5th Department Of Homeland Security Head

4:33pm November 01, 2019

by Franco Ordoñez

President Trump is set to pick his fifth head of the troubled Department of Homeland Security. Chad Wolf is currently serving in a lower level job at the agency.

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Week In Politics: House Votes To Formalize The Impeachment Inquiry

4:09pm November 01, 2019

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post, and Hugo Gurdon of the Washington Examiner, about the House vote to endorse the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

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The News Roundup - International

2:58pm November 01, 2019

ISIS leader al-Baghdadi was confirmed dead. Political protests force Chile to cancel two global summits.

House Votes To Formalize Impeachment Inquiry

The News Roundup - Domestic

2:58pm November 01, 2019

The Nationals win the World Series. The impeachment inquiry moves forward.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy enters a hall in Kyiv on March 6 to take part in the taping of the television series Servant of the People. His role on the show was as a fictional president of Ukraine.

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How Ukraine's President Wound Up In The Middle Of The Trump Impeachment Inquiry

2:30pm November 01, 2019

The infamous July 25 call between Volodymyr Zelenskiy and President Trump made what was already a delicate diplomatic situation for the new Ukrainian president even more complicated.

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi gavels the close of the vote by the U.S. House of Representatives on a resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

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At Long Last, Launch: Impeachment May Gain Momentum From First Big Moment

12:51pm November 01, 2019

by Ron Elving

Before this week's House vote, none of the steady drip-drip developments had quite become The Moment, the seminal event that moved the impeachment story into the category it is clearly in now.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has released her plan to fund single-payer health care, keeping with a pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class.

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READ: Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Pay For 'Medicare For All'

12:41pm November 01, 2019

by Danielle Kurtzleben

The Massachusetts senator has been under pressure to say whether she would raise taxes on the middle class to fund single-payer health care. Her plan opts for a variety of other revenue sources.

President Trump is no longer calling Trump Tower his permanent residence.

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President Trump Is A New Yorker No Longer

12:03pm November 01, 2019

by Brian Naylor

The president has changed his legal residence to Florida, a state with no income taxes. "I cherish New York," he tweeted, but Trump said he had been "treated very badly" by New York political leaders.