What a year this week has been
| | | | | Trump impeachment inquiry: Here’s what you missed this week — and what’s up next |
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| | Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry on Sept. 24 after a whistleblower came forward to report that President Donald Trump was using his office to coerce Ukraine into opening investigations to help his 2020 reelection campaign.
During the ensuing month, the House committees leading the impeachment probe — the Oversight, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence Committees — have questioned witnesses; Trump has both vigorously admitted to and denied committing the acts that he is being investigated for; and congressional Republicans have split between echoing the president’s excuses, maintaining strategic silence, and covering their eyes and plugging their ears.
Having trouble keeping up? Here’s a roundup of what you may have missed this week.
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| | | | | | | | | | Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the first Black lawmaker to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, returned home on Friday to his Baltimore district where family, friends and former presidents gathered to honor his legacy as a proponent of civil rights and government accountability.
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| | Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was held in contempt of court by a federal judge on Thursday and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine after wrongly trying to collect on student loans taken out to attend a chain of now-shuttered for-profit colleges.
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| | A majority of United Auto Workers members signed off on the tentative agreement between the union and General Motors, ending a massive strike that lasted more than five weeks and shut down GM production across the country. |
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