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Who can topple Trump? Dems’ electability fight rages in Iowa

By STEVE PEOPLES | January 26, 2020

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The urgent fight for the Democratic presidential nomination raged across Iowa on Sunday as the party's leading candidates scrambled to deliver closing arguments centered on the defining question of the 2020 primary: Who can beat...

In divided America, some voters tuning out impeachment trial

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and JONATHAN J. COOPER | January 26, 2020

HAMBURG, Pa. (AP) — For all the gravity of a presidential impeachment trial, Americans don’t seem to be giving it much weight.As House impeachment managers make their case to remove President Donald Trump from office, voters in several states said...

Volatility defines Democratic race as candidates flood Iowa

By BILL BARROW | January 25, 2020

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates roared back into Iowa on Saturday touting fresh endorsements, critiquing their rivals and predicting victories in the caucuses that will soon launch the process of deciding who will challenge...

Trump lawyers argue Democrats just want to overturn election

By ERIC TUCKER, LISA MASCARO, and ZEKE MILLER | January 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's lawyers plunged into his impeachment trial defense Saturday by accusing Democrats of striving to overturn the 2016 election, arguing that investigations of Trump's dealings with Ukraine have not been a fact-finding...

Politics weigh heavily in Trump’s Mideast peace plan

By DEB RIECHMANN | January 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — A blueprint the White House is rolling out to resolve the decades-long conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is as much about politics as it is about peace.President Donald Trump said he would likely release his long-awaited...

Trump’s idea of executive power is also impeachment defense

By COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL WARREN | January 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has always been a man of absolutes.Something is the best or the worst, a person is a winner or a total loser, an event has never happened before, even when it has.Absolutism was the unwritten credo of his career in business...

Pompeo lashes out at journalist; NPR defends its reporter

By LYNN BERRY | January 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out in anger Saturday at an NPR reporter who accused him of shouting expletives at her after she asked him in an interview about Ukraine. In a direct and personal attack, America's chief diplomat...

In recording Trump asks how long Ukraine can resist Russians

By ZEKE MILLER, COLLEEN LONG, MIKE BALSAMO, and LYNN BERRY | January 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump inquired how long Ukraine would be able to resist Russian aggression without U.S. assistance during a 2018 meeting with donors that included the indicted associates of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.“How...

Trial highlights: Transcript talk, handshakes for defense

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO | January 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Saturday argued a robust version of one of his favorite phrases to tweet: “Read the transcript!”It was the first day of defense arguments in Trump’s impeachment trial as the Senate gathered...