Author: Byron Tau
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Impeachment probe examining whether Trump lied to Mueller
WASHINGTON • The top lawyer for the Democratic-led House said impeachment investigators were examining whether President Trump lied in statements to former special counsel Robert Mueller. The statement Monday to a federal court by Douglas Letter, the House general counsel, indicated that the impeachment case against the president over his interactions with Ukraine could fold…
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House to vote on a road map for its impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON • The House plans to vote on a resolution laying out Democrats’ next steps in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump and move to a public phase of the investigation, the first significant vote since the probe began. This isn’t a vote to authorize starting an impeachment inquiry, but it would affirm the one…
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2 Giuliani associates who helped him on Ukraine charged with campaign-finance violations
WASHINGTON • Two donors to a pro-Trump fundraising committee who helped Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to investigate Democrat Joe Biden were arrested late Wednesday on criminal charges stemming from their alleged efforts to funnel foreign money into U.S. elections and influence U.S. politics on behalf of at least one unnamed Ukrainian politician. In an indictment unsealed…