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The topic of the day: US President in distress
Does the Ukraine affair Donald Trump cost the office? The phone call between the US president and his colleague Volodymyr Selenskyj puts Trump in distress. He encouraged the Ukrainian leader in investigations that could harm Trump's rival Joe Biden.
The opposition Democrats now want to initiate impeachment proceedings. With their majority in the House of Representatives, they could start an impeachment, but in the Senate, Trump's Republicans have the majority. There, at least 20 of them would have to vote against their president. An enormous risk for both sides. That's what the new SPIEGEL is all about in the cover story.
Why an impeachment procedure would still be correct, explains my colleague Christoph Scheuermann in his editorial.
A key role is played by Trump's confidant Rudy Giuliani. He is considered an important Strippenzieher in the affair. Trump himself acts nervously: The whistleblower, who got the affair rolling, he threatened: "Spies and betrayal, we used to do it differently."
News: What you need to know today
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Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer
- Scouring under pressure: The Minister of Transport defended secret meetings on the failed car toll. But he gets entangled in contradictions.
- Künast against Hate Speech: The Green politicians wants to defend themselves with a movement against verbal abuse and digital violence.
AFP / John MacDougall
Renate Künast and party colleagues hold a banner with the hashtag #NoHateSpeech
Opinion: Comments, interviews
"It has become more exhausting in the faction meetings": Ralph Brinkhaus hopes to compromise with the Greens and explains why he considers further billions of dollars necessary. Read the interview with the CDU politician here.
Sandwiches - without me! This problem is known to all parents: school breakfast, which rotten over the weekend in a knapsack. It is the day of the sandwich today. Click here for the video column of Harald Schmidt.
THE MIRROR
Stories: The most read texts at SPIEGEL +
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Alleged wreckage of Iranian weapons
"They clearly presented fake pictures": Who is responsible for the attack in Saudi Arabia? The researcher Fabian Hinz explains what's up with the drones and cruise missiles.
Finally free: Alvin Kennard
36 years in prison - for $ 50 and 75 cents: The petty criminal Alvin Kennard attacked a bakery. The booty was low, no one was injured. Nevertheless, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The number of the day: 23.5
Since the beginning of the year, an average of 23.5 percent of long-distance trains have arrived late, almost one in four. Your self-imposed punctuality goals reached the train anyway.
My evening: the recommendations for your end of workday
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See "Shaun the Sheep 2" in the movie theater: Get the whole family to the cinema - "UFO Alert" is about strange lights that the doodle animals see above their town.
Listen to the debut album by Shirin David: More pop than the 24-year-old singer and rapper from Hamburg is currently not working - that's how my colleague Andreas Borcholte judges "Supersize".
I wish you a nice finishing time.
warmly
Alwin Schröder from the Daily team
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