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ANKENY, IOWA -- Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Saturday the Oval Office requires a wartime veteran, a niche he occupies exclusively among top-tier candidates in his party's race for the 2020 nomination. During an interview on Iowa PBS in suburban Des Moines, Buttigieg was asked if there's value in a president who had faced hostile fire. Source

The Democratic lawmakers leading the impeachment case against U.S President Donald Trump said on Saturday the Republican president must be removed from office to protect national security and preserve the country's system of government. In a brief, the lawmakers laid out their arguments supporting charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress against the president. Source

The Democratic lawmakers leading the impeachment case against U.S President Donald Trump said on Saturday the Republican president must be removed from office to protect national security and preserve the country's system of government. In a brief, the lawmakers laid out their arguments supporting charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress against the president. Source

RICHMOND, VA. -- Police are scouring the internet for clues about plans for mayhem, workers are putting up chain link holding pens around Virginia's picturesque Capitol Square, and one lawmaker even plans to hide in a safe house in advance of what's expected to be an unprecedented show of force by gun-rights activists. Source

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team is sending the Senate a fiery response to its impeachment summons, outlining the defences it expects to use in the upcoming trial. Trump's Saturday answer to the Senate's formal impeachment summons calls the two articles of impeachment passed by the House last month "a dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their president. Source

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- House Democrats say in a brief filed ahead of impeachment trial arguments that U.S. President Donald Trump "abandoned his oath to faithfully execute the laws and betrayed his public trust." They also called his conduct the "worst nightmare" of the country's founding fathers. Source

U.S. President Trump recounted minute-by-minute details of the strike that killed Iran's top military commander during remarks to high-dollar Republican donors at his South Florida estate, according to audio obtained by CNN. Trump, speaking at a GOP fundraising dinner Friday evening, offered new details about the strike that killed Gen. Source

WASHINGTON -- Thousands gathered in cities across the country Saturday as part of the nationwide Women's March rallies focused on issues such as climate change, pay equity, reproductive rights and immigration. Hundred showed up in New York City and thousands in Washington, D.C. Source

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats were preparing to outline their case for removing U.S. President Donald Trump from office in a legal brief due Saturday, as opposing sides in the impeachment case look ahead to the opening of the historic trial in the Senate. Source

Riot police fired tear gas and sprayed water cannons near parliament in Lebanon's capital Saturday to disperse thousands of protesters after riots broke out during a march against the ruling elite amid a severe economic crisis. Source