Section: US & Canada
Iran has asked for technical help on black boxes in downed plane
Iran needs technical assistance from France and the United States to analyze data from the Ukrainian jetliner that was accidentally shot down, says a preliminary report released by the country’s National Aviation Authority on Monday. The flight recorders, commonly known as black boxes, sustained physical damage, although the memory is...
Iran has asked for technical help on black boxes in downed plane
Iran needs technical assistance from France and United States to analyze data from the Ukrainian jetliner that was accidentally shot down, says a preliminary report released by the country’s National Aviation Authority on Monday. The flight recorders, commonly known as black boxes, sustained physical damage, although the memory is intact...
Trump Impeachment Trial Ready to Begin
The impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump begins in full Tuesday in the U.S. Senate — only the third time in U.S. history a president faces removal from office for allegedly violating his oath.One of the first pieces of business for the Senate is a vote on Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s proposed timeline for the...
Ukrainians React to Iran’s Admission of Guilt in Shooting Down Airliner
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainians of all generations know what it’s like to have a war in their homeland. In World War II, Ukraine was the deadliest battlefield of the deadliest war in human history. And today, just 400 miles southeast of Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, Ukrainian soldiers remain hunkered down in trenches and improvised forts,...
Impeachment resolution shortens trial’s opening arguments to two days per side
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to give House impeachment managers and President Donald Trump’s legal team each 24 hours divided over two days for their opening arguments in the Senate’s impeachment trial, a move that indicates Senate Republicans are pushing to finish the trial as quickly as possible — ahead of the...
Justice Dept. memos back defiance of impeachment subpoenas
WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday released Justice Department legal opinions meant to bolster its case for defying subpoenas from Congress in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. One opinion, dated Sunday, says Trump administration officials were free to disregard subpoenas sent last fall before the House of Representatives had...
No impeachable offense: Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz says Dems have nothing criminal to allege or ‘they would have done it already’
On the “Glenn Beck Radio Program” Monday, Harvard Law professor and lawyer on President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team Alan Dershowitz explains the history of impeachment and its process, why the framers did not include abuse of power as criteria for a Constitutional impeachment, why the Democrats are framing their case...
Trump heading to Switzerland as impeachment trial reconvenes
WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump’s historic impeachment trial is called to order in the Senate this week, he won’t be watching from inside the chamber or on television from the White House. He’ll be thousands of miles away at the Davos economic forum in the Swiss Alps, trying to charm global CEOs over dinner....
‘He’s the whistleblower’: Judicial Watch president tells Eric Bolling the REAL reason for Democrats’ push to impeach
In this episode of “America with Eric Bolling,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton explains what he calls the real reason behind the Democrats’ never-ending impeachment drama.It was never about Russia or Ukraine, Fitton asserted. President Donald Trump was targeted to protect then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, former...
Trump Lawyers: President Did ‘Absolutely Nothing Wrong’ on Ukraine
U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday assailed the impeachment case against him as a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution,” asserting he did “absolutely nothing wrong” in pressing Ukraine to launch investigations to benefit himself politically.The lawyers for the U.S. leader said Democratic lawmakers...
