Section: National Newswatch (Canada)
Key impeachment witness Vindman fired from White House job
Lt. Col. Alex Vindman, the top Ukraine expert at the National Security Council, was pushed out of his role Friday months earlier than expected, according to a statement from his attorney. Vindman was not slated to leave until July, but had been telling colleagues in recent weeks he would likely leave soon. …read more Source:: National...
John Bolton, Susan Rice to speak at Vanderbilt on Feb. 19
NASHVILLE — Former national security adviser John Bolton will speak at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University later this month alongside another former national security adviser, Susan Rice, just two weeks after the U.S. Senate acquitted President Donald Trump without subpoenaing Bolton to testify at the impeachment trial. Bolton served as...
A defiant Trump takes grievance-filled victory lap at “celebration” of Senate acquittal
With little left to hold him back now, President Trump aired his profanity-laced grievances and declared victory over not just the impeachment saga that has forever marked his legacy, but over everyone and everything that has gotten in his way since he took office. The president declared a more than hour-long event in the East Room, surrounded by...
Trump wins acquittal, but Ukraine saga far from over
WASHINGTON — The impeachment of President Donald Trump is over, but it’s far from case closed on Ukraine. A full accounting of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, stemming in large part from the foreign policy entanglements pursued by personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, remains unfinished despite Trump’s acquittal Wednesday in the Senate....
Impeachment takeaways: Trump’s iron grip, McConnell delivers
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Senate acquitted President Donald Trump on two impeachment charges Wednesday amid Republican complaints about what they called a rushed process and Democratic claims that Trump is a threat to democracy. The historic, three-week trial proceeded largely along partisan lines, with just one senator — Republican...
Sen. Romney breaks with GOP, will vote to convict Trump
WASHINGTON — Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said Wednesday he will vote to convict President Donald Trump, becoming the first and likely only Republican to break ranks in the Senate’s impeachment trial and favour removing Trump from office. In a remarkable spectacle, Romney’s decision meant the GOP’s unsuccessful 2012 presidential...
Husband of Iran plane crash victim seeks answers, justice from investigation
OTTAWA — The husband of one of the victims who died when a Ukrainian jetliner was shot down by the Iranian military last month wants the people he says are responsible for his wife’s death to be charged and tried at the International Criminal Court. Hassan Shadkhoo has been barely able to sleep since his wife, Sheyda, was killed along with...
Vulnerable Democrat Doug Jones will vote to convict Trump
WASHINGTON — Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, the most endangered Democrat in this November’s elections, said Wednesday that he will vote to convict President Donald Trump when t he Senate impeachment trial reaches its climax. In remarks on the Senate floor, Jones said the sum of the evidence produced “a picture of a president who has abused the...
Democrat’s response to Trump turns to working-class worries
WASHINGTON — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used Democrats’ response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night to swivel from impeachment to working-class voters’ worries, saying her party is focusing on easing health care costs and other pocket-book concerns. Whitmer mentioned Trump’s...
The Latest: Parkland dad backing gun control shouts at Trump
WASHINGTON — The latest on the president’s State of the Union speech (all times local): 10:25 p.m. A protester has interrupted President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech by shouting at him to do something about gun violence. The protester appeared to be Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter, Jamie, was among 17 people...
