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Topic: The State Department

US President Donald Trump walks from the Residence to the West Wing of the White House (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Documents show when Ukraine aid withheld

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Donald Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

White House puzzled over Ukraine aid

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U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland is sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Sondland deals massive blow to Trump

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Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his confirmation hearing to be the new U.S. ambassador to Russia, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. President Donald Trump's nominee faced questions about Russian election interference and the ouster of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine at his Senate confirmation hearing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Russia ambassador breaks with Trump

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Former National security adviser John Bolton walks up to the podium to begin speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

John Bolton warned of Giuliani: reports

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Former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Lindsey Graham (AP Photos/Getty Images/Salon)

Graham invites Giuliani to testify

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Trump: "Case closed" on impeachment

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and Vice President Mike Pence (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/Seth Wenig)

Pence adviser on Ukraine call: report

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U.S. State Department Inspector General Steve Linick (L) and I. Charles McCullough III (R), inspector general of the intelligence community, testify during a hearing before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee July 7, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing "Oversight of the State Department," focusing on the FBI's recommendation not to prosecute Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for maintaining a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

IG to give lawmakers "urgent" briefing

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (Getty/Alex Wong)

Pompeo admits he was on Ukraine call

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President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani reacts to Democrats' impeachment inquiry on 'The Ingraham Angle.' (Fox News)

Giuliani: State Dept. asked me to do it!

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US President Donald Trump speaks during the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York, September 24, 2019. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump confirms he withheld military aid

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Rex Tillerson (Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

Tillerson: Kushner went behind my back

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Heather Nauert (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Trump picks former Fox host for UN post

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Trump's new gun policy: Export more

Amanda Marcotte
(AP/Carolyn Kaster/Getty/Pattanaphong Khuankaew/Salon)

Trump and presidential power: Not good

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Trump wants to make war great again

Matthew Sheffield
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump's final gambit: Lock 'em up!

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An US soldier walks in front of a tank type 'M1A2 SEP' (Getty/Christof Stache)

The power of America's imperial decline

Jacob Bacharach - Alternet