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“Armenia and Azerbaijan accused one another on Tuesday of firing directly into each other’s territory and rejected pressure to hold peace talks as their conflict over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh threatened to mushroom into all-out war… Further stoking tensions between the two former Soviet republics, Armenia said a Turkish F-16 fighter jet had shot down one of its warplanes over Armenian

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday rejected calls from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to allow witnesses at an expected Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

"We don't create impeachments," he said in remarks prepared for delivery on the Senate floor. "We judge them."

"The House chose this road. It is their duty to investigate. It is their duty

Now what? Nobody seems to have the faintest clue. Capitol Hill sources are uniformly astonished and bewildered by the whirlwind of disunity and dysfunction that has pushed Republicans' historically large House majority in to open chaos. A top leadership aide declined to even speculate on when the hastily-postponed Speaker election might take place. Of the two remaining candidates for the

President Trump expressed optimism Friday for a new trade deal with Japan, but said Japanese tariffs on U.S. farm products must be lifted—and suggested the U.S. could use levies on Japanese cars as leverage.

Seated in the Oval Office with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Mr. Trump said that Japan “puts very massive tariffs on our agriculture.” But he added, “We don’t tariff their