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Senate acquits Trump in impeachment trial; Romney breaks with GOP to vote for conviction

By Tribune News Service · Wednesday, Feb. 5,2020 7:15 p.m.

The 12-day trial is the shortest in presidential impeachment history.

Partisan passions overtake Trump's State of the Union speech

By Tribune News Service · Wednesday, Feb. 5,2020 7:12 p.m.

Democrats sat without clapping as the president recited a litany of economic and jobs numbers.

Joe Biden receives surge of support from donors of former 2020 rivals

By Tribune News Service · Sunday, Feb. 2,2020 6:39 p.m.

Biden received the biggest boost from former financial backers of Kamala Harris.

US offer to send experts unanswered by China, Trump aide says

By Tribune News Service · Sunday, Feb. 2,2020 6:31 p.m.

U.S. health officials have stressed the risk is low for Americans to become infected.

Klobuchar vows to fight on, says no deal with Biden's campaign

By Tribune News Service · Sunday, Feb. 2,2020 6:08 p.m.

Vice President Biden and Sanders still far outpace their competitors in national polls.

Facebook could be forced to remove videos of violent crime under California proposal

By Tribune News Service · Wednesday, Jan. 29,2020 9:10 p.m.

The senator proposing the bill cited a series of recent crimes that were livestreamed.

IU professor arrested in Washington, D.C. at climate change protest

By Ben Price · Thursday, Jan. 23,2020 9:36 p.m.

Professor Marc Lame wanted to educate his students on civil disobedience.

Emotional support animals would lose flying privileges under new proposed rules on service animals

By Tribune News Service · Wednesday, Jan. 22,2020 10:18 p.m.

The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to prevent false claims that pets are service animals.

California sends disaster specialists to help Puerto Rico recover from earthquakes

By Tribune News Service · Sunday, Jan. 12,2020 8:36 p.m.

A magnitude 5.9 quake struck Puerto Rico on Saturday morning.

Pelosi says McConnell looks for ‘cover-up’ of Trump impeachment

By Tribune News Service · Sunday, Jan. 12,2020 8:34 p.m.

She told House Democrats to prepare to send articles of impeachment to the Senate next week.

Trump aide ‘concerned’ Russia may be trying to undermine Biden

By Tribune News Service · Sunday, Jan. 12,2020 8:30 p.m.

The former vice president remains the front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

Punta Ventana, Puerto Rican natural wonder, collapses amid earthquake

By Tribune News Service · Thursday, Jan. 9,2020 8:49 p.m.

A soaring stone arch along the southern coast known as Punta Ventana collapsed early Monday.

House passes war powers resolution to restrain Trump's military actions in Iran

By Tribune News Service · Thursday, Jan. 9,2020 8:47 p.m.

Congress took its latest stab at reaffirming its constitutional authority to declare war Thursday.

With Iran, Congress will again be asked to exercise its war powers authority. Will it fail again?

By Tribune News Service · Thursday, Jan. 9,2020 5:14 p.m.

Congress has allowed a president to use military force four times since the War Powers Act passed.

Bloomington Methodist Church reacts to potential split

By Shelby Anderson · Thursday, Jan. 9,2020 4:45 p.m.

Nothing is officially decided until the General Conference meets in May.

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-NY, with ranking member Doug Collins, R-GA, delivers opening remarks during the committee's markup of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Dec. 11 at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

House Judiciary Committee prepares for historic vote on impeachment articles against Trump

By Tribune News Service · Thursday, Dec. 12,2019 6:01 p.m.

The panel is expected to approve two articles of impeachment.

An aerial view of Harvard University campus in 2013. A Harvard University spokesman confirmed to the Miami Herald that the school's president, Lawrence Bacow, recently reached out to Antigua and Barbuda's ambassador to the United States, Sir Ronald Sanders, to discuss how the university and the eastern Caribbean nation "might collaborate in ways consistent with" Harvard's academic mission.

Harvard benefited from slavery in Antigua; now the two are talking about reparations

By Tribune News Service · Thursday, Dec. 12,2019 5:58 p.m.

A man who helped found Harvard Law School owned a plantation in Antigua.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, speaking at the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Department of Justice Inspector General's report regarding the investigation into DOJ and FBI's work regarding the 2016 presidential election.

Justice Department inspector general testifies about report on FBI's Russia probe

By Tribune News Service · Wednesday, Dec. 11,2019 4:19 p.m.

The inspector general said he found no evidence that political bias influenced the decision to start the probe.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at the climate march during the COP25 U.N. Climate Conference 2019. Thunberg is the youngest ever Time Person of the Year.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg becomes youngest-ever Time Person of the Year

By Tribune News Service · Wednesday, Dec. 11,2019 4:18 p.m.

Some of the Person of the Year runners-up were the whistleblower in the Trump scandal and the Hong Kong protesters.

U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Michigan, speaks at a press conference June 27 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Betsy DeVos wants to change campus sexual assault policies. House bill aims to stop her.