This gives v.o.a. News I m David Berg the Us Senate has voted to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial Chief Justice John Roberts announced the verdicts the Senate having tried Donald Trump president of the United States upon 2 articles of impeachment exhibited against him by the House of Representatives and 2 thirds of the senators present not having found him guilty of the charges contained therein it is their forte ordered and it judged that the said Donald Trump being and he is here by acquitted of the charges in said articles the vote on the 1st count of the impeachment abuse of power fellow along party lines 52 to 48 former presidential candidate and Utah Republican Mitt Romney voted with the Democrats to convict trump the 2nd vote obstruction of Congress fellow along party lines but Romney voted with the Republicans for a final total of $53.00 to $47.00 Trump is only the 3rd president in u.s. History to be impeached no president has ever been removed from offic
Cooperate with the government prosecutors say that Gates provided extraordinary assistance he met with investigators more than 50 times he testified for the government in 3 criminal trials including against man a fort his former boss man of 4 was convicted in that bank in tax fraud trial and is currently serving a 7 and a half year prison sentence in his own case Gates has asked the court for no prison time just probation in light of his extensive cooperation the government does not oppose Gates request the decision on how much time if any expense behind bars rest in the hands of the court Brian Lucas n.p.r. News Washington the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says President Trump will soon be announcing a drawdown of u.s. Troops in Afghanistan as Jennifer glass reports Graham was in Kabul yesterday Senator Graham discussed the gradual and responsible reduction of u.s. Forces with Afghan prison Ashraf Ghani here in Kabul and said
Change for positive news coverage and expensive gifts like pink champagne and cigars correspondent Roxana Saberi is at the foreign desk and Yahoo is vowing to keep on leading that country and under Israeli law he can stay in office until a final verdict even if he s eventually convicted the appeals process could take years a teenager from Illinois is in trouble for allegedly posting an ad for a slave for sale on craigslist hate crime on disorderly conduct charges have been filed against a 14 year old Naperville Illinois student Prosecutors say the online posting that included a photo of his African-American classmate also included a racial slur the defense attorney says the students were friends that school authorities are handling the matter with an apology of a suspension it s unclear what kind of penalty the high school freshman might face if convicted going on c.b.s. News it s part 2 of the trickiest repair job ever attempted outside the International Space Station Ok Drew so I co
And he says the resolution confirms that House Democrats are engaging in what she called an illegitimate sham the u.s. House has voted overwhelmingly to recognize the killings of one and a half 1000000 Armenians in Turkey over a century ago as genocide the measure Plast following several failed attempts to conventional makers to even consider the bill because of concern over the u.s. Relationship with Turkey. Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it s now time as international observers wrote at the time it was a campaign of race extermination one that we as members of Congress and as freedom loving people have a moral obligation to never forget Meanwhile Turkey s foreign minister is slamming the u.s. House vote calling it a shameful decision to exploit history Wall Street stocks closed lower ahead of a Federal Reserve decision on interest rates the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 19 points the Nasdaq fell 49 this is n.p.r. News. Police in Indian controlled Kashmir say 5 laborers have been kill
Asked her at the Storm Prediction Center Sunday morning the Sunday afternoon is only expects sort of a peak in the wind speeds increasing to about 35 to 50 miles an hour with gusts to about 70 miles an hour those massive winds can make a combustible combination with dried out vegetation that acts as fuel a bit of good news the Santa Ana winds that helped spread a fire outside Los Angeles are subsiding but Graeme s cautions that by Monday that northern wind event could begin impacting the south Amy Held n.p.r. News Chicago s Teachers Union and the public schools are continuing negotiations today trying to end a teacher strike has been going on for more than a week now 300000 children in the city of now missed 7 days of school Sarah Karp of member station. Has more school district and union officials say they only have a few sticking points to resolve to land a deal the problem is that they re big ones they center on working conditions and include class size caps and staffing increases