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An editorial in the state-run China Daily said Beijing would not allow the U.S. to interfere in what it called its "internal affairs."

The two Republicans are looking to flip the 26th Congressional District seat, which is currently occupied by Democratic Representative Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.

The Democratic presidential candidate criticized the president after he said he was "waiting to hear" from Saudi Arabia before acting in regards to the weekend Aramco drone attack.

"This is reason enough not to vote for Trump, among the other 836,297 reasons not to vote for him," Chase wrote on Facebook.

The directive has sparked suspicion and outrage among the six Florida lawmakers, who say their staff has played a critical role in helping veterans receive the proper benefits they deserve.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee took what they viewed as a significant step forward Thursday in formally outlining the procedures for their future investigations into President Donald Trump, a move that Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said they will use to "determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment."

Democrats are creating a political stunt by holding a special meeting to pass new rules involving an impeachment inquiry, Republicans said, resulting in the usage of social media analogies to accuse members of denigrating the panel's role.

Those who've yet to support a ban showed pause due to concerns about the bill's details, believed it was a hopeless task — so long as the Senate is GOP controlled — or simply did not want to discuss the matter.

Here's the scorecard as we head for 2020: Trump and the Republicans - 2; Pelosi and the Democrats - 0.

"Mitch McConnell should not be contracting the Senate's decisions out to the White House," Senator Chris Van Hollen said.

The conflicting messages gives Democrats the opportunity to to play the party's stance on impeachment as they see fit.

House speaker blamed the Senate majority leader for not allowing a vote on a bill passed by Congress extending background checks.

A fighter pilot, Amy McGrath has already been to war three times and is now taking on, arguably, the most powerful man of Washington

GOP members indicated that, while they may support certain gun violence prevention measures, they're unwilling to take action without support from Trump because efforts would be futile to only be defeated by a presidential veto.

"It's hopeless. It makes no sense at all," the former Republican Speaker of the House said in an interview with Fox News.

Tens of thousands of protesters descended on the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong on Sunday, calling on the Trump administration to lend more support.

"So, let's save time. Let's just get it done — now," the speaker of the House said.

Representative Jamie Raskin explained that the emoluments clause forbids the president from receiving any additional money from the government beyond his personal salary.

The swing state's 9th Congressional District, typically a Republican stronghold, is up for Democrats to grab and widen their House majority in the do-over election that was scheduled after allegations of fraud in the 2018 election nullified the results.

The House will likely focus on legislation around gun policy and election security and the Senate, led by Republican Mitch McConnell, has a large group of judicial nominees waiting for approval.

The move will mark the first formal procedure taken by the Democratic-led committee to officially define its "impeachment investigation," as Chairman Jerrold Nadler has dubbed it, and will better explain how the probe will operate going forward.

Tens of thousands of activists descended on the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong on Sunday to call for more backing from the U.S. government.

"Hong Kongers are fighting for freedom, fighting for democracy, fighting for human rights," a pro-democracy activist said. "These are values that the United States stands for."

Democrats plan to investigate why HUD has missed a 90-day deadline to begin allowing Puerto Rico to apply for more than $8 billion in allocated mitigation funds for natural disasters.

"The Committee does not believe that U.S. taxpayer funds should be used to personally enrich President Trump, his family, and his companies," a Democratic committee chairman wrote in a series of letters requesting information and documents.

"We are less than five months away from the start of the next federal election, and there is no time for partisan games," members of the Blue Dog Coalition wrote in a letter.

The DOJ's internal watchdog concluded that the former FBI director "violated department and FBI policies" in leaking unclassified memos that detailed his conversations with the president to the press.

Trump has reportedly ordered his national security team to review some $250 million in military aid to Ukraine, which is fighting pro-Moscow separatists in the east of the country.

"This practice is unconstitutional, and we are writing in the hope of dissuading you from engaging in it," attorneys with Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute told the freshman Democrat.

Staffers of the House Oversight Committee were allegedly told troubling accounts by migrant detainees, including toddlers forced to eat burritos and kids told to drink spilled soup off the floor.