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Bill Clinton and James Patterson on Their New Thriller

Three years after writing a bestselling novel together, former President Bill Clinton and author James Patterson are back with their second: The President's Daughter, published jointly by Knopf and Little, Brown and Company on June...

By Tessa Berenson

An Impeachment Manager on Trump's Acquittal

It’s an icy Sunday morning in Washington, less than 24 hours after the Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump in the unprecedented impeachment trial of a former president, and Representative Joe Neguse is trying to...

By Tessa Berenson

Trump’s Lawyers Say He Didn’t Incite Capitol Riot

Donald Trump’s attorneys defended the former President against the charge that he incited an insurrection before the Senate on Friday, presenting their entire argument in less than three hours. House managers “chose to spend 14-plus...

By Tessa Berenson and Lissandra Villa

Republicans Remain Unmoved

The House impeachment managers finished their opening arguments after two days of wrenching presentations about the deadly riot at the Capitol

By Tessa Berenson and Lissandra Villa

Democrats Make an Emotional Case to America

House impeachment managers are creating a public record of the dramatic assault on American democracy

By Lissandra Villa and Tessa Berenson

Senate Votes Trump's Second Impeachment Trial Is Constitutional

The Senate affirmed the constitutionality of holding an impeachment trial for a former president on Tuesday, paving the way for the final showdown over Donald Trump’s extraordinary presidency. By a vote of 56 to 44,...

By Tessa Berenson

Trump's Impeachment Trial Begins

Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial is set to begin in the Senate this week, and while it will likely end in the former president’s acquittal, it will also be a revealing inflection point for the...

By Tessa Berenson

What We Know About Trump's Impeachment Defense Strategy

Donald Trump’s lawyers in his second impeachment trial plan to argue that the Senate trial is unconstitutional and that Trump's statements preceding the violence at the Capitol were protected by the First Amendment, a strategy...

By Tessa Berenson

Trump's Impeachment Trial Raises Constitutional Questions

Sen. Rand Paul forced a vote on the constitutionality of Donald Trump's second impeachment trial

By Tessa Berenson and Lissandra Villa

Donald Trump Impeached a Second Time

Democrats and a handful of Republicans voted to impeach President Trump for inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It's now in the hands of the Senate

By Tessa Berenson
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