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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, acquiescing to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an election year clash between Congress and the commander in chief.The probe centers on whether Trump abused his presidential powers and sought help from a foreign gov stanley cup ernment for his reelection. Pelosi said such actions would mark a betrayal of his oath of office and declared: No one is above the law.Pelosi brief statement capped a frenetic stretch on Capitol Hill, as details of a classified whistleblower complaint about Trump burst into the open and momentum shifted swiftly toward an impeachment probe. The charge was led by several moderate Democratic lawmakers from political swing districts, many of them with national security backgr stanley cup ounds and serving in Congress for the first time.After more than two and one-half years of sharp Democratic criticism of Trump, the formal impeachment quest sets up the party most urgent and consequential confrontation with a president who thrives on combat 鈥?and injects deep uncertainty in the 2020 White House race. Trump has all but dared Democrats to take this step, confident that the specter of impeachment led by the opposition party would bolster his political s stanley cup upportTrump, who was meeting with world leaders at the United Nations, previewed his defense in an all-caps tweet: 82 Ikwi China accused of creating overseas police stations to target dissidents
GREENBELT, Md. AP 鈥?A man once described by an FBI agent as the world largest facilitator of child pornography websites pleaded guilty Thursday to operating a web hosting service that allowed users to anonymously access hundreds of thousands of images and videos depicting the rape and torture of infants and older children.Eric Eoin Marques, 34, faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 30 years after his guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to advertise child pornography. A plea agreement will ask U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland to sentence Marques to 15 to 21 years in prison, but the judge is not bound by the recommendation.Marques can withdraw his guilty plea if the judge departs from that recommended range. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang is scheduled to sentence Marques on May 11.Marques, who spent ye adidas campus ars fighting his extradition from Ireland to the U.S., operated a web hosting service on the darknet that allowed thousands of users to view and share child pornography, according to a court filing Thursday.Marques, a dual citizen of af1 the U.S. and Ireland, has remained in custody since his August 201 hoka 3 arrest in Dublin after an extradition request from the U.S. He was living in Ireland at the time of the alleged offenses. The server that he allegedly used was in France.Marques was extradited from Ireland to Maryland last year. The plea agreement doesn ;t give him credit for the nearly six years he spent i |
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