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Politics & Government

District Of Columbia Sues Inaugural Committee For 'Grossly Overpaying' At Trump Hotel

3:54pm January 22, 2020

by Merrit Kennedy

President Trump's inaugural committee spent more than a million dollars renting event space at the hotel in January 2017, a cost that D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine says is far above market rate.

A new section of the border wall is seen in November 2019 south of Donna, Texas. Trump's 576-mile border wall is expected to cost nearly $20 million per mile, which is more expensive than any other wall under construction in the world.

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$11 Billion And Counting: Trump's Border Wall Would Be The World's Most Costly

7:25am January 19, 2020

by John Burnett

The costs keep piling up for Trump's border wall which has a current pricetag of $11 billion — nearly $20 million per mile. It's more expensive than any other wall under construction in the world.

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A Very Stable Genius, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig

3 Years In, 'A Very Stable Genius' Authors Say Trump Decisions Are 'More Chaotic'

4:41pm January 18, 2020

by Mary Louise Kelly

Reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker tell NPR they wanted to make sense of the rapid churn of Trump-era news. In a new book, they emerge with a portrait of an "undisciplined, impulsive leader."

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Alan Dershowitz told NPR on Friday he would make constitutional arguments for President Trump at his Senate impeachment trial.

Politics & Government

Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Draws Line On His Role In Trump Impeachment Defense

7:51pm January 17, 2020

by Roberta Rampton

The Harvard law professor told NPR he will present constitutional arguments during the Senate trial — but will not be involved in other strategic decisions.

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Lev Parnas (left) says text messages last year between him and congressional candidate Robert Hyde about surveilling former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch were taken out of context. But Ukrainian police are investigating the allegations.

Ukraine Is Investigating Whether U.S. Ambassador Yovanovitch Was Surveilled

3:44pm January 16, 2020

by Bill Chappell

Ukraine's Internal Affairs Ministry says it's asking the FBI to help determine whether international laws were broken, or "whether it is just a bravado and a fake information" from a U.S. politician.

The White House has said that President Trump was acting within his legal authority when he froze military aid to Ukraine.

Politics & Government

Trump Broke The Law In Freezing Ukraine Funds, Watchdog Report Concludes

11:55am January 16, 2020

by Ayesha Rascoe

The Government Accountability Office opined on Thursday that the Trump administration's actions in the Ukraine affair went beyond the bounds of a law called the Impoundment Control Act.

Latest Trump Book, Once Again, Makes The Case That He's Incompetent, Narcissistic

8:59pm January 15, 2020

by Ron Elving

A Very Stable Genius gives pause to ponder: Is this moment simply about Trump — or are we also witnessing a sea change in journalism? Are we seeing new standards for the presentation of a presidency?

Russian hackers successfully infiltrated emails of employees at Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company, according to a U.S. security firm. Here, a building is seen in Kyiv that holds the offices of a Burisma subsidiary.

Russia Hacked Ukrainian Company Linked To Trump Impeachment, Security Firm Says

12:01pm January 14, 2020

by Bill Chappell

Days after the House formalized its impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Russian hackers reportedly started working to gain access to Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holding's email accounts.

A white-tailed deer emerges from the brush. The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge has some of the richest biological diversity in North America--with 1,200 plants, 300 butterflies, and 700 vertebrates, of which 520 are birds.

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Border Wall Threatens National Wildlife Refuge That's Been 40 Years In The Making

10:11am January 14, 2020

Construction of the Trump administration's border wall has been slowed by difficulties acquiring private land, so the government is prioritizing construction inside federal nature sanctuaries.

People attend the visitation service for Margie Reckard at La Paz Faith Center in El Paso, Texas, in August 2019. She was killed in white supremacist attack that targeted Latinos at a Walmart.

National

2019 Brought Stepped-Up Efforts To Counter White Supremacist Violence

7:00am December 29, 2019

by Hannah Allam

Extremism monitors say 2019 was the year the country started taking serious measures to address a growing far-right threat.

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