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The resolution asks the president to go to Congress for explicit authorization to attack Iran, but makes an exception for defending against an “imminent” threat. read more

The acquittals protect President Trump from being removed from office, as sought by Democrats, but do not overturn his impeachment in the House of Representatives. read more

It was not immediately clear if these new revelations will have any impact on the Senate trial, which is now moving towards acquitting the President, a long known outcome, in a vote expected on Wednesday. read more

The White House had wanted an earlier vote so the president could have touted being vindicated in his annual state of the union address scheduled for Tuesday. Republican leaders couldn’t deliver, however, because their own senators wanted more time for... read more

The US Senate is almost certain to acquit President Trump of the charges in his impeachment trial, as a two-thirds Senate majority is required to remove Trump and none of the chamber’s 53 Republicans have indicated they will vote to convict. read more

Democrats have expressed concerns that Republicans, who hold 53 of the Senate’s 100 seats, are not keeping an open mind about the evidence they have gathered. read more

US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who will preside over the trial, administered the oath to the senators who will decide whether the 45th president should be removed from office. read more

The Republican-led US senate will now determine in a trial slated for sometime in January whether he should be removed from office. read more

The US senate will hold a trial subsequently, in January, to remove Trump from office or acquit him, and let him continue. Indian American lawmakers Pramila Jayapal and Raja Krishnamoorthi could be among “impeachment managers” appointed by House Democrats... read more

It’s a transcript of a speech he delivered at a prayer meeting on January 22, 1948, his first after breaking his famous fast to forge Hindu-Muslim unity in the aftermath of the partition and the riots that had followed on either side of the border. Gandhi... read more

Trump has watched the Democratic race closely, criticizing the candidates, giving them insulting pet-names. But he had not come up with one of those for Harris, and had even seemed impressed by her opening announcement in February. read more

Boeing Co Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg will testify for two days before Congress starting on Tuesday, which is the anniversary of the Lion Air 737 MAX crash in Indonesia. read more

Multiple people involved in the framing and movement of the legislative provision through US Congress attributed the collapse of these efforts, in background interviews, to opposition from the state department and some to the Congress for India’s planned... read more

Introduced by Senate India Caucus Co-Chair Senator John Cornyn with the support of Senate India Caucus Co-Chair Senator Mark Warner, the amendment provides for increased US-India defence cooperation in the Indian Ocean. read more

“We have deterred attacks based on our reposturing of assets, deterred attacks against American forces,” Shanahan said after the briefings. read more