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Volker To Appear Before House Panels Conducting Impeachment Probes

7:58am October 03, 2019

NPR's Noel King talks to Democratic Rep. Val Demings of Florida about what Congress hopes to find out from former envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker. NRP's Mara Liasson weighs in on the issue.

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Then-U.S. special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker speaks during a news conference in Kyiv on July 27. Volker is being deposed on Thursday as part of the House impeachment inquiry.

Diplomat Kurt Volker Caught Up In Whirlwind Of Impeachment Inquiry

7:58am October 03, 2019

by Michele Kelemen

Volker, who was named in a whistleblower complaint about President Trump's contact with Ukraine, resigned as U.S. special envoy to the country last week and is being deposed on Thursday.

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How Does A President Handle Impeachment Inquiry Stress?

6:27am October 03, 2019

by David Folkenflik

President Nixon withdrew during his impeachment crisis. President Clinton turned to historians and berated aides. President Trump? He seeks solace on Twitter through conservative media.

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'Atlantic': Prominent Americans Shouldn't Leverage Their Names For Payoffs

6:15am October 03, 2019

NPR's David Greene talks to author Sarah Chayes about her article in The Atlantic about how prominent American politicians leverage their political status for material gain overseas.

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News Brief: Impeachment Inquiry, Kurt Volker, Dallas Shooting

6:10am October 03, 2019

White House-Congress battle intensifies over the impeachment inquiry. Diplomat Kurt Volker is the first to be deposed in the case. And, ex-officer is sentenced to 10 years for killing her neighbor.

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The Energy Company At The Center Of The Trump-Ukraine Controversy

5:05am October 03, 2019

by Lucian Kim

Despite advertising as one of Ukraine's biggest independent gas producers, the energy company where Joe Biden's son Hunter sat on the board, is registered in Cyprus and is invisible in Kyiv.

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Amid Legal Questions, Contract Extended For Acting Head Of Land Management

5:05am October 03, 2019

by Kirk Siegler

The Trump administration says the controversial acting head of the Bureau of Land Management is keeping his job through the end of the year, despite legal questions surrounding his appointment.

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Trump Keeps Using The Word 'Treason' But What's The Criminal Definition Of The Word?

12:54am October 03, 2019

President Trump has accused Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., of treason and whoever gave information to the whistleblower of being a spy. NPR looks at the criminal definitions of those words.

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U.S. Attorney General William Barr (center) speaks during a July press conference on citizenship data with President Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Latinx Voters Ask Court To Ensure All Residents Counted In Allotting Congress Seats

6:04pm October 02, 2019

by Hansi Lo Wang

The group is concerned the Trump administration won't follow more than 200 years of precedent in dividing up seats in Congress based on numbers that include unauthorized immigrants.

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House Intel Chair Adam Schiff Pushes Back On Trump's Attacks On Whistleblower

5:17pm October 02, 2019

by Susan Davis

The State Department inspector general is briefing bipartisan bicameral staff of key committees as part of the House impeachment inquiry. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the probe.

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