Section: US & Canada
‘Stop playing the nasty Washington game!’ — Ted Cruz slaps down reporter over question about his children
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) got into a heated interaction with a reporter after a pointed question that involved his two daughters. The exchange happened during a media briefing about the impeachment trial in the Senate on Monday. Cruz was criticizing Democrats for arguing that President Donald Trump had only sought to investigate corruption in...
Under Bolton Shadow, 6 Big Moments From Day 6 of Trump Impeachment Trial
President Donald Trump’s lawyers hit the Senate floor Monday for the second day of defense arguments in his impeachment trial, amid what Democrats called a bombshell from a forthcoming book by the president’s former national security adviser, John Bolton. The Bolton book wasn’t a direct topic during the arguments. But the...
John Bolton Has Run the Trump White House’s Greatest Scam
Anton Chekhov, the 19th century Russian author, did not believe in red herrings. The metaphorical gun that bears his name is a reminder to writers that everything matters, or at least that everything should matter, when crafting a novel. “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one, it should be fired,” he...
State Dept. boots NPR reporter from trip after Pompeo spat
A different NPR reporter said last week that Pompeo berated her after she asked him about Ukraine. …read more Source::...
Bulgarian Court Arrests Ukrainian Suspected Of Planning Attack On Activist
A court in Bulgaria on January 27 sent Ukrainian national Oleksiy Moskalenko (Levin) to jail for 40 days based on a red Interpol notice issued by Ukraine on suspicion of co-organizing an attack on a Ukrainian activist that led to her death. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Impeachment Trial Recap: Trump Lawyers Charge Ahead — But Eschew Bolton Issue
President Trump’s defense lawyers tore into Democrats in their first full day of arguments but they did not address new revelations about the Ukraine affair in John Bolton’s forthcoming book.(Image credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP) …read more Source::...
White House impeachment team questions Bolton’s Ukraine claims
Norah O’Donnell spoke to Representatives Meadows, Collins, Lesko and Stefanik. …read more Source::...
Auschwitz Reminds Us That the Fight Against Evil Is Never Over
KYIV, Ukraine—Monday marks the 75th anniversary of the day Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration and extermination camp. At Auschwitz, the Nazis murdered more than 1 million men, women, and children, mostly Jews, during the Holocaust. I have been to Auschwitz only once. It was a long time ago, in February...
The New Question Hanging Over the Impeachment Trial
In the clattering corridors of the Capitol today, the hunt for the startling fact that could change the arc of the impeachment story was on in earnest, but Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, wasn’t much help. A clutch of reporters surrounded him at around noon, asking whether he believed John Bolton’s assertion in a...
Ukraine’s Richest Billionaire Akhmetov Buys $221 Million French Riviera Estate
Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov has bought a lavish, 14-bedroom mansion for 200 million euros ($221 million) in the French Riviera town of Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat, the Financial Times (FT) reported on January 27. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
