Section: National Newswatch (Canada)
Poland urged to end ‘damaging’ impasse at Jewish museum
WARSAW, Poland — Two co-founders of a prominent Jewish history museum in Warsaw urged their third partner — the Polish government — to comply with an agreement to re-appoint the museum’s former director, arguing Thursday that a failure to do so threatens the museum and is damaging to Polish-Jewish relations. A standoff over the leadership...
Trial highlights: Senators’ questions launch pointed debate
WASHINGTON — Finally playing an active role at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, senators posed written inquiries that led to pointed, back-and-forth debate Wednesday as Trump’s legal team and House Democratic prosecutors pressed their respective cases. Throughout, the urgent question of whether former national security...
Asked and answered? Senators have their say in Trump trial
WASHINGTON — At last during the impeachment trial, they got to do what comes naturally in their native habitat: speak on the Senate floor. But when senators engaged in a bit of their beloved talk, the result was something between a political debate and a low-budget reality show. That’s in part because they mostly asked for answers about the...
Biden under pressure to prove he can thwart new GOP attacks
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — With five days until the Iowa caucuses, Joe Biden is fending off a new onslaught of GOP attacks over his son’s business overseas and facing piling pressure to show Democratic voters he can handle the incoming. As Republicans amplified their allegations against the former vice-president, accusing him of nepotism and worse...
3 Senate Dems from red states waver on impeachment votes
WASHINGTON — As the Senate impeachment trial grinds toward a climax, it remains unclear how three Democrats will vote on whether to toss President Donald Trump from office. Sens. Doug Jones of Alabama, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are all question marks, though they’re widely regarded as likely to vote for at...
Biden under pressure to prove he can thwart new GOP attacks
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — With five days until the Iowa caucuses, Joe Biden is fending off a new onslaught of GOP attacks over his son’s business overseas and facing piling pressure to show Democratic voters he can handle the incoming. As Republicans amplified their allegations against the former vice-president, accusing him of nepotism and worse...
Asked and answered? Senators have their say in Trump trial
WASHINGTON — At last during the impeachment trial, they got to do what comes naturally in their native habitat: speak on the Senate floor. But when senators engaged in a bit of their beloved talk, the result was something between a political debate and a low-budget reality show. That’s in part because they mostly asked for answers about the...
Trial highlights: Senators’ questions launch pointed debate
WASHINGTON — Senators finally were allowed to speak at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, if only to announce written inquiries that led to pointed, back-and-forth debate Wednesday as Trump’s legal team and House Democratic prosecutors pressed their respective cases. Throughout, the urgent question of whether former national...
GOP squirms as Bolton prepares to dish on Trump White House
WASHINGTON — For much of the last 20 years, John Bolton was a conservative poster child, a Republican hawk whose worldview helped shape the GOP establishment’s approach to dicey foreign policy questions. Now, as President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser prepares to dish on his days in the White House, some old friends...
Lev Parnas wants to see Senate impeachment hearing Wednesday
NEW YORK — An associate of Rudy Giuliani who is awaiting trial on charges that he made illegal campaign contributions has a ticket to Wednesday’s U.S. Senate impeachment trial, but he still probably can’t go. Joseph Bondy, a lawyer for Lev Parnas, wrote to a New York judge Tuesday to ask if his bail conditions might be relaxed enough...
