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Authorities are cracking down on the places correspondents may go, with whom they may talk and for how long. News outlets don't want to go along.

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The bill includes some policy surprises and increases in funding for several key public health priorities. And it cuts the few remaining taxes that were paying for Obamacare.

Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., completed a rare impeachment report — like ones filed for former Presidents Nixon and Clinton — ahead of a House vote expected this week. It includes Republicans' views.

House Democrats have unveiled their allegations. After it finalizes the articles, the Judiciary Committee is expected to send them to the full House for a vote on whether to impeach.

At the time of her deposition on Nov. 7, her lawyer told NPR that Williams' testimony "will largely reflect what is already in the public record."

The remarks were part of an opening statement in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

The 16-minute call was conducted from Air Force One and came two months before the now-infamous July 25 conversation between the two men that prompted the impeachment inquiry into Trump.

Kent said Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's lawyer, and his associates led a smear campaign against Marie Yovanovitch, the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.