Leading House Democrats announced articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump Tuesday morning.

A U.S. House of Representatives impeachment hearing quickly fell into partisan fighting as lawmakers formally received the investigative findings against President Donald Trump to lay out the case for the charges against him. The committee's Democratic chair Representative Jerrold Nadler said there is extensive proof of Trump's wrongdoing.  However, Representative Doug Collins, the top Republican on the panel argued that Democrats are on a politically driven mission to remove Trump from office without direct evidence that he had committed impeachable offenses.

At least five people have been reported dead after an unexpected eruption off the eastern coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Plus, Russia is banned from international competition while President Vladimir Putin meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris and North Korea calls President Trump a “heedless and erratic old man.' In addition, the House Judiciary Committee moves toward drafting articles of impeachment of US President Donald Trump and the latest from the Defense Department after the Washington Post published documents that US officials mislead the public the 18-year conflict in Afghanistan.

At least five people have been reported dead after an unexpected eruption off the eastern coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Plus, Russia is banned from international competition while President Vladimir Putin meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris and North Korea calls President Trump a “heedless and erratic old man.' In addition, the House Judiciary Committee moves toward drafting articles of impeachment of US President Donald Trump and the latest from the Defense Department after the Washington Post published documents that US officials mislead the public the 18-year conflict in Afghanistan.

North Korea carried out what its state media says is a "very important" test at its Sohae satellite launch site Sunday. That is the rocket testing ground that U.S. officials once said North Korea had promised to close.  The reported test comes as a year-end deadline North Korea has imposed nears, warning it could take a "new path" amid stalled denuclearization talks with the United States