JULIE PACE
AP Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON (AP) — The articles of impeachment offered up Tuesday against President Donald Trump are narrow, but consequential. They are also likely to be approved by Democrats alone.
The impending vote will thrust Trump into a club no president wants to join: only the third American leader to be impeached by the House of Representatives....
MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, setting up a historic vote in the days before Christmas. The articles charge the president with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and argue that he is a "threat to national security and the Constitution."
After internal debate in...
JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — They're calling it a circus, a farce and even zany.
President Donald Trump and his Republican allies spent weeks trivializing the House impeachment inquiry ahead of Tuesday's historic unveiling of formal charges against the president.
Where Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton treated the prospect of impeachment as a serious threat to their...
LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, declaring he "betrayed the nation" with his actions toward Ukraine as they pushed toward historic proceedings that are certain to help define his presidency and shape the 2020 election.
The specific charges aimed at removing the 45th president of...
CLAIRE PARKER
Associated Press
ARGENTEUIL, France (AP) — Adrien Lachevre and Nailat Msoili live a few kilometers (miles) apart in Paris' northwest suburbs, but their paths had never crossed until Lachevre picked Msoili up in his gray Fiat on Tuesday morning.
An app had matched their schedules and morning commutes, and the two had arranged to meet at a nearly deserted...
JANIE HAR
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tired of San Francisco streets being used as a testing ground for the latest delivery technology and transportation apps, city leaders are considering requiring businesses to get permits before trying out new high-tech ideas in public.
Supporters of the legislation, which the Board of Supervisors will take up Tuesday, say it would be...
ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr leveled blistering criticism at how the Russia investigation was conducted, saying Tuesday that it was based on a "bogus narrative" that the Trump campaign might have conspired with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
Barr spoke to NBC News one day after the release of a Justice...
MATTHEW LEE and DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump met Tuesday with the Russian foreign minister at the White House just hours after articles of impeachment were unveiled against him and a day after a Justice Department watchdog report declared the FBI was justified in opening an investigation into ties between Moscow and Trump's 2016 campaign.
Sergey...
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday in support of a resolution asserting that utilities operating within Riverside County should have the freedom to select how best to achieve "balanced energy solutions" that cut greenhouse gas emissions – without the state dictating every aspect of powering the grid.In a 4-0 vote, with Supervisor Chuck Washington abstaining, the...
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — Another border tunnel from Mexico to the United States has been discovered in Arizona after the U.S. Border Patrol arrested four migrants.
Agents in Nogales, Arizona, found the tunnel on Sunday after a camera operator for the Border Patrol spotted the migrants.
The agents who made the arrest traced the migrants' trip and came across the tunnel...