Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will allot each side a total of 24 hours to present their arguments in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, but the time must be confined to two working days, according to the text of his organizing resolution, which NBC News obtained Monday.

Many eyes are expected to be on the Senate’s impeachment trial when it starts Tuesday.  Robert Hyde said his won’t be among them. “It’s a hoax.  I mean it’s all hearsay right,” said Hyde. The Simsbury man’s name was included in a trove of messages related to the Ukraine scandal released by House Democrats last week.  In them, Hyde...

Connecticut congressional candidate Robert Hyde said he was passing information along to Lev Parnas in texts, but that the information was from an acquaintance and he did not know what those texts meant.

Among those joining White House counsel Pat Cipollone and longtime Trump attorney Jay Sekulow will be Ken Starr, the independent counsel who investigated President Bill Clinton. Former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz also will play a role.

Hundreds of Central American migrants were stranded in a sort of no-man’s land on the river border between Guatemala and Mexico after running up against lines of Mexican National Guard troops deployed to keep them from moving en masse into the country and on north toward the U.S.

In a legal brief filed Monday, President Donald Trump’s legal team urged Senate Republicans to dismiss the “flimsy” impeachment case against their client and decrying the process as rigged. The 110-page brief from the White House, filed before arguments expected this week in the Senate impeachment trial, offered the most detailed glimpse of the defense they intend to use...

President Donald Trump’s legal team is asserting that he did “absolutely nothing wrong” and calling the impeachment case “flimsy” and a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution.”

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing U.S. intelligence agencies of withholding documents from Congress on Ukraine that could be significant to President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. They appear to be succumbing to pressure from the administration,” Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Schiff was selected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as the lead...

To help keep you informed on the most shared and talked about stories, each Saturday and Sunday we’ll revisit five stories from the previous week, including the most recent updates. Two articles of impeachment were delivered to the Senate on Wednesday and on Thursday, Chief Justice John Roberts administered the jurors’ oath to senators, officially beginning the impeachment trial...

Seven House impeachment managers and two lawyers representing President Donald Trump make their initial case in filings ahead of the president’s trial in the Senate

The National Archives said Saturday it made a mistake when it blurred images of anti-Trump signs used in an exhibit on women’s suffrage. The independent agency is charged with preserving government and historical records and said it has always been committed to preserving its holdings “without alteration.” But the archives said in a statement Saturday “we made a mistake.” The archives’...

The Trump administration on Friday took another step toward dismantling Michelle Obama’s school nutrition guidelines, proposing a new rule that could lead to more pizza and fries and less fruit and a smaller variety of vegetables on school menus. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who announced the rule changes on Obama’s birthday, said they were needed to give schools more...

Eleven U.S. troops were flown out of Iraq for evaluation of concussion-like symptoms in the days following an Iranian missile strike that President Donald Trump had said caused no harm to American forces, officials said Friday. The Pentagon’s chief spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, said Defense Secretary Mark Esper did not know of the injuries until he was told Thursday afternoon...

The Supreme Court said Friday it will take up the fate of a Trump administration rule, now on hold, that would grant employers an exemption on religious or moral grounds from Obamacare’s requirement to provide health insurance coverage for birth control, NBC News reported. Pennsylvania and New Jersey successfully challenged the rule that would provide broad exemptions to the...

Former independent counsel Ken Starr and defense attorney Alan Dershowitz are slated to join President Donald Trump’s defense team when the Senate’s impeachment trial begins next week, according to NBC News. Also expected to join the team are former special counsel Robert Ray and Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general.

Former independent counsel Ken Starr and famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz are expected to join President Donald Trump’s legal defense team for the Senate impeachment trial, according to a source familiar with the matter, NBC News reports.

The impeachment of President Donald Trump is officially underway in the Senate. Chief Justice John Roberts swore in senators Thursday after House impeachment managers read the charges of obstruction of Congress and abuse of office aloud. NBC’s Alice Barr reports.

Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, claimed in an interview that aired Thursday that President Donald Trump fired, or believed he fired, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine several times before her recall was publicly announced in April.

In a bid to solidify his evangelical base, President Donald Trump took steps Thursday to give religious organizations easier access to federal programs and he reaffirmed students’ rights to pray in public schools. Under orders from Trump, nine Cabinet departments proposed rules intended to remove “regulatory burdens” on religious organizations participating in federal programs by eliminating a requirement that they…

A 6.4 magnitude quake that toppled or damaged hundreds of homes in southwestern Puerto Rico is raising concerns about where displaced families will live. It’s a big problem because the island is still struggling to rebuild from Hurricane Maria two years ago. Officials say the Jan. 7 quake and a subsequent 5.9 magnitude aftershock that hit Saturday damaged at least...