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What to expect as Trump’s second impeachment begins
Former President Donald Trump is making history as the first U.S. president to be impeached twice. A political scientist and two legal experts explained how this impeachment trial will be different from the first.
Trump trial gets go-ahead after emotional, graphic first day
On the emotional first day of Donald Trump's impeachment trial, the former president lost a key opening battle — the Senate voted that it has jurisdiction to try him even though he has left office. Trump is charged by the House with inciting the violent mob attack on the U.S. Capitol to overturn the election.
What to watch as Trump's 2nd impeachment trial kicks off
Former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial begins on Tuesday, a solemn proceeding that will force lawmakers to relive the violent events of Jan. 6 as House Democrats prosecute their case for "incitement of insurrection."
Timeline: What Trump told supporters for months before they attacked
The record shows at least eight months of incendiary statements from then-President Trump and others close to him leading up to the insurrection at the Capitol.
AP-NORC poll: Few in U.S. say democracy is working very well
Only a fragment of Americans believe democracy is thriving in the U.S., even as broad majorities agree that representative government is one of the country's bedrock principles, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Schumer faces pressure from the left to deliver as majority leader
Progressives are watching the new Senate majority leader to see if he can deliver on some of the party's most ambitious legislative goals. If not, they say he could face a primary challenge next year.
Trump lawyers blast impeachment trial as 'political theater'
Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday blasted the impeachment case against him as an act of "political theater" by Democrats, whom they accused of exploiting for their own party's gain the chaos and trauma of last month's riot at the U.S. Capitol.