Section: US & Canada
Trump’s Acquittal Confronts Dems With Election Year Choices
Donald Trump’s impeachment ended with a reminder of why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi resisted the idea for so long — an acquittal everyone saw coming, followed by a bombastic presidential victory lap and a bump in his poll numbers just as the 2020 campaign officially began.Now Democrats have to decide how to navigate the legislative and...
Reports: Trump Set To Boot Key Impeachment Witness Out Of White House
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is expected to pay a price for providing crucial testimony in the House’s impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump’s Ukraine pressure campaign, according to multiple reports late Thursday. According to Bloomberg News and the Washington Post, Trump is posed to have Vindman reassigned from his...
Shrinking country: Serbia struggles with population decline
BLAGOJEV KAMEN, Serbia (AP) — Uros Trainovic remembers when his small mining village in eastern Serbia was a vibrant home to 200 families, had a school of its own, a doctor and a shop. How times have changed. Now, 60-odd years later, it’s a ghost village with just eight residents. The transformation of Blagojev Kamen is not unique in a...
How History Will Judge the Trump Impeachment
The Senate has voted against impeaching President Donald Trump, defeating two articles of impeachment by votes of 52-48 and 53-47. Trump joins two former presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, in being impeached by the House of Representatives before being acquitted by the Senate. The House failed to produce credible evidence that the...
Will Trump’s Operatives Now Biden Bernie?
We’re in a pretty dramatically situation in the Democratic primaries than we were a week ago. Everything could change on Tuesday. But for now it looks much more likely that Bernie Sanders will be the nominee than it did a week ago or certainly a month or two ago. With that in mind, I wanted to flag a set of facts that tie back to what I...
Glenn Beck unveils money laundering scheme linked to Hunter Biden and Burisma
In a Thursday night special, BlazeTV host Glenn Beck laid out the evidence implicating a possible international money laundering scheme linked to Ukrainian gas firm Burisma and former Burisma board member Hunter Biden.The links provided by Beck show that $1.8 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars sent to Ukraine during the Obama administration are...
Democrats Torn About Whether to Demand That John Bolton Testify
Yuri Oreshkin/TASS via GettyHouse Democrats are torn about whether they should call in former National Security Adviser John Bolton to testify following the at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
Trump Promotes ‘Religious Freedom’ Initiative Amid Criticisms Over Travel Ban
President Donald Trump highlighted his efforts to promote religious freedom at home and abroad during an unusually raucous appearance before the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.“To protect faith communities, I have taken historic action to defend religious liberty, including the constitutional right to pray in public schools,” he told the...
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...
Fox News Internal Briefing Book Warns Against Top Commentators ‘Spreading Disinformation’
Fox News’ research unit advised colleagues against taking some claims made by the network’s top commentators regarding Ukraine at face value. According to a Daily Beast report Thursday, an internal Fox News research briefing book criticizes contributor John Solomon — who plays an “indispensable role” in a Ukrainian “disinformation...
