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US lawmakers to grill Trump Intel chief on whistleblower report
President Trump’s intelligence official will testify at the House of Representatives. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s top intelligence official will be grilled by US lawmakers on Thursday over the administration’s handling of a whistleblower report central to an impeachment inquiry into the president. The acting...
US expects about US$30 million in Ukraine military aid may be delayed: Sources
September 26, 2019 3:55 PMWASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The Trump administration expects that perhaps only US$30 million (S$41 million) of this year’s US$250 million in military aid to Ukraine will not be put in the spending pipeline by a Monday (Sept 30) deadline, when the government’s fiscal year ends, two US officials told Reuters....
How Trump’s Ukraine call could violate campaign finance laws
U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated prodding of the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden and his son could amount to an illegal request for a … …read more Source:: The Japan...
Washington plunges into Trump impeachment investigation
President Donald Trump repeatedly pushed Ukraine’s president to “look into” Democratic rival Joe Biden, according to a rough transcript of a summer phone call that … …read more Source:: The Japan...
Trump calls Democratic impeachment inquiry a ‘joke’
A downbeat Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed as a “joke” the grounds laid out for the impeachment inquiry into him, as Democrats stood firm in accusing the US president of a “mafia-style shakedown” of his Ukrainian counterpart. Trump denied claims he abused his office by repeatedly urging President Volodymyr Zelensky to...
Russian jailed for 3 years for stealing painting in plain sight
MOSCOW: A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a man who snatched a 19th-century painting off the wall in a busy Moscow gallery earlier this year to three years in a maximum security prison.The court in the Russian capital found Denis Chuprikov guilty of theft of valuable items.In January, Chuprikov took the painting off the wall in...
US military struggles to weed out soldiers with far-right ties
KANSAS: The arrest of a US soldier with far-right sympathies who is suspected of plotting an attack on American soil to spark “chaos” has highlighted a challenge for the Pentagon: purging its ranks of extremists. Jarrett Smith, a private in the US Army based at Fort Riley in Kansas, was arrested and charged in federal court with one count of...
Phone call showed only a slice of Trump’s obsession with Ukraine
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Trump calls Democratic impeachment inquiry a ‘joke’
Mr. Trump denied claims he abused his office by repeatedly urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to probe his rival Joe Biden — as confirmed in a call transcript released by the White House. …read more Source:: The...
Washington plunges into Trump impeachment investigation
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the InterContinental Barclay New York hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Washington (AP) — President Donald Trump pressed the leader of Ukraine to “look into” Joe Biden, Trump’s potential 2020 reelection...
