Prospect of impeachment:
Top House Democrats have raised the prospect of impeachment or the real possibility of prison time for President Donald Trump if it’s proved that he directed illegal hush money
payments to women, adding to the legal pressure on the president over the Russia investigation and other scandals.
“There’s a very real prospect that on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him, that he may
be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time,” said Rep Adam Schiff, the incoming chairman of the House intelligence committee. “The bigger pardon question may come down the road as the next president has to determine whether to pardon Donald Trump.”
Rep Jerry Nadler, the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, described the details in prosecutors’ filings Friday in the case of Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, as evidence that Trump was “at the center of a massive fraud.” (AP)
House fire kills 5 children:
Five children, including 1-year-old twins, died in a late-night fire that swept through a house after neighbors were awakened by a loud boom, firefighters said.
The only survivor was the children’s mother, who jumped out of a secondfloor window Sunday night, according to Youngstown Fire Capt. Kurt Wright.
The other three children who died were ages 9, 3 and 2, he said.
State and local investigators were just beginning to search for a cause of the deadly blaze. Fire officials said so far, there’s nothing that indicates the fire was suspicious.
Most of the damage was on the home’s first floor, leading investigators to believe that’s where the fire started, Wright said. (AP)