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January 19, 2020

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That's Reuters' Emer McCarthy reporting.

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U.S. lawmakers managing the impeachment case against President Donald Trump filed a brief on Saturday laying out their arguments supporting charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress against the president.

In the 111-page document, the lawmakers summarized arguments made during weeks of testimony late last year during the House impeachment investigation.

They also called for Trump's removal in order to safeguard the integrity of this year's general election, in which Trump is seeking a second term as well as the U.S. system of government.

The president's legal team issued a rejection of the House's impeachment, calling the charges against Trump a dangerous attack on Americans and their right to vote.

Trump's impeachment trail starts Tuesday in the U.S. Senate.

Iran is sending the black boxes of the Ukrainian passenger plane that its military accidentally shot down this month back to Ukraine. Lauren Anthony has more.

Iran is sending the black boxes of the Ukrainian passenger plane that its military accidentally shot down this month back to Ukraine.

According to Tasnim news agency, Iranian authorities are also prepared for experts from France, Canada and the U.S. to examine the data from the boxes.

All 176 people aboard the Ukraine International Airlines flight died when the plane was shot down on January 8 shortly after takeoff from Tehran en route to Kyiv.

The director in charge of accident investigations at Iran's Civil Aviation Organization told Tasnim that the flight data recorder will be sent to France if experts could not read it in Kyiv.

That's Reuters' Lauren Anthony reporting.

Police fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets in Lebanon's capital Saturday to disperse thousands of protesters amid some of the worst rioting since demonstrations against the country's ruling elite erupted three months ago. More than 150 people were injured.

Rough seas prompted SpaceX on Saturday to delay the emergency escape test of its new crew capsule by one day. AP's Julie Walker reports.

The capsule is supposed to catapult off the rocket and parachute into the ocean with mannequins on board.

The test is the last major hurdle for SpaceX before launching two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, possibly in March.

Meanwhile, Boeing is still investigating why its Starliner crew capsule ended up in the wrong orbit after its first unmanned test flight.

The last time NASA astronauts launched from the U.S. was in 2011. They've been riding Russian rockets in the interim for hefty prices.

I'm Julie Walker.

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