Section: US & Canada
‘You Did A Good Job On Her,’ Trump Tells Pompeo On Spat With NPR Reporter
President Donald Trump on Tuesday piled on the veteran NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly, who’s been the target of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after she grilled him on Ukraine in a recent interview. “I think you did a good job on her,” Trump told the secretary. Pompeo erupted at Kelly after a recent interview when she asked why he had not...
Pompeo Should Go—and I Don’t Mean to Ukraine
Washington is consumed with the Senate impeachment trial this week, but it should also find some time to reflect on a sorry episode from this past weekend: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s behavior with NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly. During an interview with Kelly in which he balked at discussing whether those State employees embroiled in...
Alan Dershowitz: John Bolton Allegations Are Not Impeachable, Nor Is Abuse of Power
Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer and retired Harvard law professor who is on President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team, argued during the Senate trial on Monday evening that recent allegations made in a book by former national security adviser John Bolton are not impeachable. “Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would...
LIVE VIDEO: Day 3 for President Trump’s defense team to take down impeachment charges as Bolton’s claims loom large
President Donald Trump’s defense team will wrap up its opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial Tuesday, beginning at 1 p.m. ET. You can watch a live feed of the proceedings below once it begins. So far, the president’s team has been seen as effectively countering the House impeachment managers’ case. On Day 1 of the...
Criminal Record of Crimean Journalist Mykola Semena Officially Cleared
An RFE/RL contributor in Ukraine’s Russia-controlled Crimea region has received court papers officially confirming the termination of his probation and the expunging of his criminal record.A court in Crimea’s capital, Simferopol, on January 14 ruled to prematurely terminate the probation period and expunge the criminal record of...
Republicans Crafting Way To Avoid Calling Bolton As A Witness
The Ukraine bombshell revealed in former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s unpublished manuscript has made it more difficult for Republican senators to insist that additional witness testimony is unnecessary. The previously unreported episode, where President Donald Trump allegedly told Bolton that the withheld military aid was linked...
EU Slaps Sanctions on 7 over Elections in East Ukraine
The European Union on Tuesday slapped sanctions on seven people accused of undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty for their role in organizing Russian local elections in the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014.The seven, who will see their assets frozen and face travel bans in Europe, include a top official in Crimea and senior...
Historians: Sobibor death camp photos may feature Demjanjuk
BERLIN (AP) — Historians have presented a collection of photos kept by the deputy commander of the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp that they say appears to include images of John Demjanjuk, the retired Ohio auto worker who was tried in Germany for his alleged time as a Sobibor guard. The collection unveiled Tuesday at Berlin’s Topography of...
Ukraine’s Tragic Disappearance in the Fog of Impeachment
Everyone in Washington is treating Kyiv as critical to domestic politics—but hardly anyone is respecting its importance to U.S. foreign policy. …read more Source:: Foreign...
EU slaps sanctions on 7 over elections in east Ukraine
The European Union on Tuesday slapped sanctions on seven people accused of undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty for their role in organizing Russian local elections in the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Moscow … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: The Bellingham...
