Section: US & Canada
DC Sues Trump Inaugural Committee, Alleging Abuse of Funds
The District of Columbia is suing President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and two companies that control the Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital, accusing them of throwing parties for the Trump family with nonprofit funds, and overpaying for event space at the hotel.The district’s attorney general, Karl...
Biden Downplays Tensions with Sanders Over Social Security
Joe Biden sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders after the two candidates exchanged several volleys over Social Security and other matters. And the former vice president pledged in a wide-ranging interview with MSNBC that if he reaches the White House, he would not agree to any budget deal that...
Republican Lawmakers Questioned Trump’s Withholding of Ukraine Aid, Documents Show
Newly released emails and other documents show that some of those now sitting as jurors in Trump’s impeachment trial were also unhappy about his move to freeze aid last year. …read more Source:: Foreign...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to visit Ukraine next week, sources say
Ukrainian officials are preparing for the visit, scheduled for Jan. 30-31. …read more Source::...
US House Democrats to Argue Trump Abused Presidency
U.S. House Democrats are starting three days of arguments Wednesday to make the case that President Donald Trump abused the presidency to try to help himself politically and should be removed from office.During 13 hours of debate extending in to early Wednesday, the House managers prosecuting the case against the country’s 45th president...
Senators are reportedly considering a Biden-Bolton witness trade-off in impeachment trial
While the Senate continues to fight over which witnesses — if any — might be called to testify in its impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, some of its Democratic members are reportedly discussing a potential trade: Hunter Biden for former White House national security adviser John Bolton. According to a Tuesday night story at the...
House GOP’s Legal Expert Torches WH’s Defense Against Impeachment
Jonathan Turley, the constitutional scholar at George Washington University whom House Republicans had chosen to testify in the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings, smacked down the White House’s legal argument in the Senate trial on Tuesday. In an op-ed published in Washington Post, Turley took aim at White House Counsel...
White House documents show emails about withholding aid to Ukraine
The White House released a number of documents late Tuesday that show efforts by the Trump administration to withhold military aid to Ukraine last year — an issue that led to the president’s impeachment in the House. …read more Source:: United Press...
Trump staffers planned the Ukraine aid freeze the night before his call to Zelensky, further undermining defense
The new documents undermine a pillar of Trump’s impeachment defense — his claim that he didn’t withhold Ukraine aid to pressure Ukraine. …read more Source:: Business...
Trump: I’d ‘Love’ For Pompeo, Mulvaney, Perry To Testify But It’d Be A ‘National Security Problem’
President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that he would “love” for the top officials involved his Ukraine scheme to testify in the Senate impeachment trial, but doing so would pose a “national security problem.” During a press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump told reporters that he’d “rather” have former...
