Paul Handley

Trump announced on Twitter the termination "effective immediately" of Chris Krebs.

The US and India are also due to complete an accord on sharing sensitive data in a new sign of their strengthening strategic ties.

The president and his bodyguards wore masks, but they were all in one vehicle with the windows shut, at a time when experts say he was highly infectious.

Trump said that Microsoft was in talks to buy TikTok, which has as many as one billion worldwide users.

A special telethon backed by the WHO but snubbed by Washington pulled in 7.4 billion euros to support international efforts to develop a vaccine.

Trump drew on staunch Republican support to easily defeat a Democratic effort to expel him from office.

House impeachment prosecutors outraged over Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz's assertion that a president can do almost anything he wants in public interest.

Democrats detailed Trump's illicit scheme to pressure Ukraine to help his 2020 reelection campaign.

The prosecutors played old videos in which two of the president's closest defenders said that abuse of power is a clear impeachable offense.

House impeachment managers led by veteran prosecutor Adam Schiff used the opening debate over trial procedures.

Preparations will get underway for an impeachment trial that will open on Tuesday, January 21.

Once the House forwards the charges, the Senate has to begin trial proceedings within one day.

Trump is charged with abuse of office and obstruction of Congress.

The stage set for the third trial in history of a sitting US president, where the party of defendant Donald Trump gets to set the rules.

Democrats said at Monday's hearing there was abundant evidence that Trump had committed bribery, abused his power and obstructed the investigation.

Trump's attorney signaled on Sunday night that the White House won't send anyone to the hearings, at least not right away.

Democrats accuse Trump of demanding Ukraine's assistance in a July phone call and via a circle of accomplices, mainly senior figures in his administration.

The hearings include diplomats who have already testified privately that Trump and Sondland repeatedly pushed Kiev to open investigations into Biden.

Congress upped the pressure on Trump's key aides to appear behind closed doors.

In explosive prepared testimony, Vindman recounted listening to Trump pressure Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on the July 25 phone call.

An unnamed US military dog became a unlikely hero of the raid.

Trump accused Democrats of hiding the investigation behind closed doors.

Trump blasted his accusers as he sought to turn the tables on a probe that threatens to make him only the third US president ever impeached.