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President Trump and U.S. Attorney General William Barr announce the Trump administration's decision to back down from its push for a citizenship question in the White House Rose Garden in July.
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Mark Sandy, a senior career official at the Office of Management and Budget, outside the Capitol before his close-door deposition earlier this month.
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President Trump spoke before pardoning the National Thanksgiving Turkey during a ceremony in the Rose Garden on Tuesday. Trump has until 6 p.m. on Dec. 1 to notify the House Judiciary Committee of any plans to participate in the upcoming public hearing on impeachment.
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Presidential candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar; Sound Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg; Sen. Elizabeth Warren; former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden; and Sen. Bernie Sanders stand onstage for the Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday.
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Philip Reeker, acting assistant secretary of state for Europe, arrives Oct. 26 for a closed-door interview at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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Two male turkeys from North Carolina named Bread and Butter hang out in their hotel room at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C., ahead of Tuesday's pardoning.
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President Trump Pardons Pair Of Turkeys — The Strange Truth Behind The Tradition
Mark Sandy, a career employee in the White House Office of Management and Budget, testified in the House impeachment inquiry on Nov. 16.
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A voter casts a ballot in Louisville, Ky., this month. Long-serving election officials around the country are retiring ahead of the 2020 election, which could be among the most challenging to administer in the country's history.
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As 2020 Approaches, Some Experienced Election Officials Head To The Exits
On Monday, a federal judge ruled that former White House counsel Don McGahn must testify to House lawmakers who have subpoenaed him, in the face of White House orders that McGahn not comply. Above, McGahn arrives for an event at the Justice Department in May.
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Former President Barack Obama has been taking a more vocal role in the 2020 presidential primary recently, and there's a fierce debate over whether any candidate can reconstruct the multiracial coalition that he built in 2008.
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Obama May Not Be Up For Election, But His Legacy Is
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., are proposing to forgive student debt for most Americans. They greet each other at a Democratic primary debate in July.
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Forgiving Student Debt Would Boost Economy, Economists Say
Pins and bumper stickers of presidential contenders in the New Hampshire primary are displayed in the State House visitors center in Concord, N.H.
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President Trump, Vice President Pence and first lady Melania Trump present Conan, the military working dog injured in the successful operation targeting Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, before the media in the Rose Garden at the White House on Monday.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., leaves during a break in testimony of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is making a late entry into the Democratic presidential primary, less than three months before voters begin to cast ballots.
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Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer has been pushed out over his handling of the case of a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes. Spencer is seen here testifying during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in April.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital Sunday after being admitted for chills and fever two days earlier. Ginsberg is seen here in July.
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New documents show Secretary of State State Mike Pompeo had contact with President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani weeks before the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine was recalled.
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Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speak to reporters in Ankara, Turkey after a hastily-arranged meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Oct. 17, 2019 over Turkey's offensive in Syria.
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Fiona Hill, the National Security Council's former senior director for Europe and Russia, and David Holmes, an official from the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, testified in the House impeachment inquiry Thursday.
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Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham shared that White House officials are still holding out hope that the president may not get impeached by the House of Representatives.
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Republican Senators, White House Map Out Impeachment Trial
Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy shakes hands with Vice President Pence in Warsaw, Poland, on Sept. 1.
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For Pence, Impeachment Inquiry Will Test A Political Path Shaped By Faith
Former White House national security aide Fiona Hill and David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, return from a break to continue their testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
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