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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee says he will oppose calling more witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, all but dashing Democratic efforts to hear more testimony and boosting odds the Senate will vote soon to acquit Trump. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said she would support a vote for witnesses, but that now appears to be too little and too late for the Democratic accusers. Both Republican votes probably would be needed if Democrats are to win the four GOP senators requied to win a vote Friday on summoning witnesses. Otherwise, the trial could end abruptly in acquittal.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump is lashing out at his top Democratic presidential rivals while taking his fight to the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa and the crucial battleground state of Michigan. With Democrats set to hold their nominating battle Monday, Trump slammed former Vice President Joe Biden for his small campaign crowds, mocked Bernie Sanders as “Crazy Bernie” and accused Pete Buttigieg of having an unpronounceable last name. He also rehashed old grievances and digs at 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton but said the current field of Democratic contenders offers him stiffer competition than the former secretary of state.
WAUKEE, Iowa (AP) — Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden are stepping up their criticisms of Bernie Sanders as moderates are under growing pressure to dull any momentum the progressive senator may gain heading into next week's Iowa caucuses. Biden is questioning Sanders' party loyalty, saying. “He’s not a registered Democrat, to the best of my knowledge." Sanders has long identified as a democratic socialist and was elected as an independent senator from Vermont. Buttigieg is bemoaning Sanders' demands for adherence to progressive ideals as “a kind of politics that says you've got to go all the way here and nothing else counts.”
BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. has advised against all travel to China after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of a new virus that has spread to more than a dozen countries a global emergency. The number of cases spiked more than tenfold in a week, including the highest death toll in a 24-hour period reported Friday. The State Department's travel advisory told Americans currently in China to consider departing using commercial means, and requested that all non-essential U.S. government personnel defer travel "in light of the novel coronavirus.” China counted 9,692 confirmed cases with a death toll of 213, including 43 new fatalities. Meanwhile, China's foreign ministry says it will send charter flights to bring home residents of worst-hit Hubei province from overseas.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — One of the Americans evacuated from a Chinese city at the center of a new virus outbreak says he holed up in his home there for more than a week before catching a flight to the U.S. Jarred Evans, a professional football player in a Chinese league, says news of the deadly coronavirus turned Wuhan, a city of 11 million, into a ghost town, with buses and trains barred and people staying home. Evans is among nearly 200 Americans who are at March Air Reserve Base east of Los Angeles until tests confirm they don't have the virus.
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