Section: US & Canada
DEA to open Ukraine office: Report
The Drug Enforcement Administration intends to open a representative office in Ukraine, a local news outlet reported Thursday. Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and U.S. diplomat Jorgan K. Andrews discussed the proposal, said 112.International, an English-language Ukrainian website. “The representative office of DEA Office on...
Pompeo enters heart of impeachment with Ukraine visit
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Fired Ukrainian prosecutor files criminal complaint against Joe Biden
by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2020 The Ukrainian prosecutor who Joe Biden boasted about getting fired has filed an official criminal complaint against the former vice president, a report said. Viktor Shokin on Tuesday filed the complaint with Ukraine’s interim director of the National Bureau of Investigation against Biden for...
Pompeo enters heart of impeachment with Ukraine visit
KYIV, Ukraine — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faced a delicate balancing act as he began a two-day visit to Ukraine on Thursday, trying to boost U.S. ties with a critical ally that is at the heart of the impeachment trial while not providing fodder for Democrats seeking to oust President Donald Trump. Pompeo’s visit comes as the...
Nancy Pelosi says President Trump can’t be legitimately acquitted if Senate doesn’t call impeachment witnesses
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Donald Trump “will not be acquitted” by the Senate in his impeachment trial unless the chamber goes along with Democrats’ demands to call more witnesses.During her weekly press briefing in the U.S. Capitol, Pelosi made the case that, even if the Senate does vote...
Russia fires back at ‘illegal’ and ‘futile’ Canadian sanctions
Russia’s embassy in Canada lashed out Wednesday at new Canadian sanctions against six Russian officials in Crimea over their involvement in the September 2019 local elections in the Russian-controlled Black Sea peninsula that was part of Ukraine before Moscow annexed it in 2014. Foreign Affairs Minister François-Phillippe Champagne said...
Key Questions Asked During Impeachment Trial
There were questions about quid pro quos and whisteblowers, the Constitution and an unpublished book.Senators in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial posed dozens of questions to White House lawyers and to House Democrats prosecuting the case. The questions, written on paper and read aloud by Chief Justice John Roberts, provided a...
LIVE VIDEO: Republicans get another stab at Adam Schiff and the impeachment managers, might try to force Justice Roberts to allow whistleblower to be named
The Senate will reconvene at 1 p.m. ET Thursday to wrap up the questioning phase of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. You can watch the live feed of the proceedings below once it begins. Following three days of opening statements from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and his crew of House impeachment managers and three days of...
Meghan McCain: Don’t Dismiss Dershowitz. He ‘Helped a Serial Killer Get Off.’
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Democrats Never Found Their Hero
As the final sliver of daylight faded over the Capitol dome last night, it was clear that Democrats’ long, frustrated quest for a deus to save them from Donald Trump would produce no machina after all. Instead, there was only Representative Adam Schiff, the party’s tireless point man in the impeachment trial, who stood in the well of...
