Section: US & Canada
Ukraine’s Population Shrinks By Nearly A Quarter
A so-called electronic census found Ukraine’s population has dwindled by almost a quarter since 2001, driven by migration, death rates exceeding birth rates, but also because it was impossible to count residents in Russia-occupied Crimea and the territories in the country’s east that Kyiv doesn’t control. …read more...
GOPers Repeat Calls For Biden Testimony As Dems Debunk Conspiracy Theories
A focus by House impeachment managers on debunking the Ukraine conspiracy theories President Trump has pushed collided this week with a growing push by Senate Republicans to call witnesses like Joe Biden, ostensibly to litigate those very theories. A spotlight on the former vice president and 2020 contender is precisely what Trump wanted when he...
Joe Biden urges media to focus on his set of Ukraine facts
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2020 In a memo from his campaign this week, Joe Biden warned the media that reporting on the allegations against his son Hunter Biden, a central figure in the impeachment case against President Donald Trump, would make them “enablers of misinformation.” While he was vice president, and the Obama...
Bulgaria charges 3 Russians in attempt to poison arms dealer
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian authorities on Thursday charged three Russian nationals with the attempted murder of the owner of a Bulgarian arms factory and two other people. The three unnamed Russians are accused of having attempted to kill the victims “in a way endangering the lives of many,” the chief prosecutor’s office said in a...
Impeachment Managers Rush To Debunk Biden Conspiracy Theories
Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), one of House impeachment managers, took aim at GOP-backed conspiracy theories around Burisma during the second day of opening impeachment arguments on Thursday, dismantling a key allegation linking Joe Biden to the Ukrainian gas company on whose board Hunter Biden sat. Introducing the theory early on into arguments...
Nadler Uses Words Of Trump’s Allies Against Him At Impeachment Trial
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler’s argument Thursday against President Trump’s interpretation of what constitutes an impeachable offense used the words of Trump’s top supporters against him. At the Senate impeachment trial, Nadler played clips or showed writings of Attorney General Bill Barr, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and...
Debunked ‘by who’? Graham pushes back on Democrats’ talking points about Biden-Ukraine allegations in impeachment trial
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pushed back against Democrats’ claims that the concerns of corruption surrounding the Bidens and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma have somehow been debunked, despite a number of questions that still remain unanswered.”I don’t know how many times it was said by the managers that the Biden...
Attorneys General Warn Impeaching Trump Will Have Long-Term Consequences
The Constitution’s impeachment provisions are among the few that we would rather never be used. President Donald Trump is the 20th public official, and only the third president, to be impeached by the House of Representatives. Because the result of House impeachment, followed by conviction in a Senate trial, removes the president from...
Adam Schiff and the End of Implausible Deniability
From time to time in the Trump era, Republican members of Congress have found themselves stricken with blindness, deafness, illiteracy, or some combination thereof. Their affliction tends to manifest whenever President Donald Trump and his allies do something troubling. They claimed that they didn’t watch coverage of a rally where his...
British Police Remove Ukrainian National Emblem From Extremist Guide
Britain has removed Ukraine’s coat of arms from a police guide for identifying extremist symbols, after the presence of the “tryzub” (trident in Ukrainian) emblem in the document triggered a protest from Ukrainian officials. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
