‘I’m so sorry,’ ex-Dallas cop weeps on witness stand at her murder trial
A former Dallas police officer charged with murdering an unarmed neighbor when she walked into his apartment thinking it was her own, wept as she testified in her own defense on Friday, saying she asks God daily for forgiveness.
Members of disbanded EPA air quality panel form independent group
Former members of an air quality scientific advisory committee that was disbanded by the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday they were forming an independent panel to continue their work.
Pelosi accuses U.S. Attorney General of going ‘rogue’ in Ukraine case
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday accused U.S. Attorney General William Barr of going “rogue” in the Justice Department’s handling of a whistleblower complaint that President Donald Trump solicited a political favor from Ukraine’s…
Democrats challenge ‘brazen’ gerrymandering of North Carolina voting maps
North Carolina Democrats filed a new legal challenge to partisan gerrymandering on Friday, asking a state court to order the redrawing before next year’s elections of congressional districts they say are designed to entrench Republican power.
Former diplomatic, security officials endorse U.S. impeachment inquiry of Trump
More than 300 former officials from U.S. security and foreign policy agencies, including a former director of the National Counterterrorism Center and a one-time deputy secretary of state, on Friday endorsed the congressional impeachment inquiry of Pre…
Environmental groups sue over Trump auto emissions move
Nine U.S. environmental groups sued the U.S. Transportation Department on Friday over its effort to bar California from setting tailpipe emissions and electric vehicle requirements.
U.S. House defeats Republican measure disapproving of impeachment inquiry
The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives killed a Republican resolution on Friday disapproving of the formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced this week.
U.S. House votes again to end Trump’s border emergency declaration
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday backed for a second time legislation that would terminate President Donald Trump’s February declaration of a national emergency on the southern border with Mexico, sending the measure to the White House for T…
Former Dallas cop in wrong-apartment slaying trial breaks down on stand
A former Dallas police officer testifying in her own defense on a murder charge wept in the courtroom on Friday as she began to reenact the incident in which she killed her unarmed neighbor in his own apartment after she entered by accident.
Republicans see impeachment backfiring. Democrats fear they may be right
By Gabriella Borter, Brendan O’Brien, Andrew Hay and Zachary Fagenson
