Section: US & Canada
Government Accountability Office Finds That Trump White House Illegally Held Up Ukraine Aid
SAUL LOEBPresident Donald Trump’s White House violated federal law by withholding military aid to Ukraine, a top government watchdog found on Thursday, dealing a blow to the administration’s case against impeachment as the Senate prepares to put Trump on trial.The Government Accountability Office dismantled the White House Office of...
White House pushes back on Parnas allegations
The White House on Thursday dismissed allegations from Lev Parnas that President Trump was aware of a scheme to get Ukraine to announce investigations into his political rivals as a media blitz from the indicted businessm… …read more Source:: The...
‘Impartial Justice’? What to watch in Trump’s Senate trial
WASHINGTON — The impeachment of President Donald Trump is the Senate’s challenge now. Directed by the Constitution, House officials and prosecutors somberly carried the articles through the dimly lit Capitol to the Senate on Wednesday evening, triggering a trial unlike any since President Bill Clinton’s in 1999. He was acquitted. Look...
RCMP creating DNA profiles to help identify Canadians killed in Iran plane crash
Canada’s national police force is taking part in the massive effort to identify dozens of Canadians killed in last week’s plane crash in Iran. While no RCMP officers are currently on the ground in Tehran, where the Ukrainian passenger jet was shot down by the Iranian military, a spokeswoman said the force is co-ordinating the crucial...
Nations of Iran crash victims press Tehran on investigation
LONDON (AP) – Representatives of five nations that lost citizens when Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner last week met Thursday in London to press Tehran to conduct a full and open investigation into the tragedy. The foreign ministers of Canada, the U.K., Afghanistan, Sweden and Ukraine lit candles at … …read more Source:: The...
Ukraine investigating possible surveillance of ex-U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry, which runs the police forces, said in a statement that Ukrainian police “are not interfering in the internal political affairs of the United States.” …read more Source:: Global...
Ukraine Opens Investigation Into Possible Surveillance of Former U.S. Ambassador
(KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukrainian police say they have opened an investigation into the possibility that the former U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance before she was recalled from her post. The announcement Thursday came two days after Democratic lawmakers in the United States released a trove of documents that showed Lev Parnas, an...
Ukraine Announces Probe Into Possible Surveillance of Ex-US Ambassador
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry has opened two criminal investigations into possible surveillance of former U.S. ambassador to Kyiv Marie Yovanovitch. Details are still coming in.The news comes as an associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s person lawyer said the president was aware of a campaign to pressure the Ukrainian government to...
Ukraine opens investigation into possible illegal surveillance of Marie Yovanovitch
Ukrainian officials said Thursday they have opened an investigation into the possible surveillance of former U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch while she worked in the country. …read more Source:: United Press...
Parnas Who? WH Still Insists Trump Doesn’t Know Giuliani Pal Despite Damning Interview, Photos
On Thursday morning, White House spokesperson Stephanie Grisham denied Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas’ allegation that President Donald Trump was fully aware of his efforts to pressure Ukraine into announcing an investigation into Joe Biden. “The President has said he did not know him,” Grisham said during an interview on “Fox &...
