Republicans are closer to the 51 votes they need to head off witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial than it seemed earlier this week, with senators saying there are perhaps four who are still in play.

Two of the 53 Republicans — Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins ...

Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard emeritus professor assisting President Trump's impeachment defense, warned Wednesday that much of the country would refuse to accept a conviction in the trial.

He said he grew up in the era of McCarthyism, and the country is more divided today than it was then, and Mr. ...

Senate Democrats said Wednesday they would be willing to turn over key legal decisions in the impeachment trial to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. — but the president's team said it wouldn't agree, saying it's not how the Constitution envisioned things.

Chief Justice Roberts is presiding over the trial, ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that there are enough votes to force Hunter Biden to testify in the impeachment trial, should senators vote to have any witnesses.

He was responding to a challenge from the top Democrat, Sen. Charles E. Schumer, who seemed to doubt the GOP could muster the ...

Rep. Adam Schiff refused under direct questioning Wednesday to divulge any details about the whistleblower who spurred the impeachment of President Trump, irking Republicans who demanded he reveal what he knew.

Mr. Schiff would only say the whistleblower was found "credible" by the intelligence community's inspector general.

Yet Mr. Schiff ...

If the Senate calls former National Security Advisor John Bolton as a witness in the impeachment trial against President Trump it would open a Pandora's Box that would leave the Senate gridlocked for months, the president's lawyers told lawmakers on Wednesday.

Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin said if Mr. ...

Senators got their first crack at the impeachment managers Wednesday as they kicked off 16 hours of questions with one on whether a president can have mixed motives for taking official action — and when it becomes a high crime or misdemeanor.

Patrick Philbin, one of the president's lawyers, said ...

Sen. Ted Cruz says reports that the GOP can't block witnesses in the impeachment trial are not accurate, saying they're not actually certain what would happen.

"The votes are up in the air; it's not clear where the votes are," he said Tuesday on the latest version of

President Trump hit a new approval rating high in yet another poll Friday, with the Washington Post-ABC survey also showing Democrats' impeachment case is failing to dent him.

More Americans now say the president should be kept in office than ousted — a reversal from the Post-ABC's last ...

Rep. Adam B. Schiff's opening argument Wednesday at the Senate impeachment trial described President Trump as a serial election "cheat" who must be stopped before the November vote, while the president lobbed insults back at the proceedings from the other side of the Atlantic, calling Mr. Schiff's crew "major sleaze ...