Section: US & Canada
Iranian President Rouhani Appeals for ‘National Unity’ After Protests
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for “national unity” Wednesday after an eruption of protests over Iran’s downing of a Ukrainian International Airlines plane.Iran initially said mechanical problems caused the commercial jetliner to go down, before admitting days later that Iranian military personnel mistakenly shot down...
‘Today, the American Soldier is in Danger, Tomorrow the European Soldier Could Be,’ Warns Iran’s President Rouhani
(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran’s president warned Wednesday that European soldiers in the Mideast “could be in danger” after three nations challenged Tehran over breaking the limits of its nuclear deal. Tehran’s top diplomat meanwhile acknowledged that Iranians “were lied to” for days following the Islamic Republic’s accidental shoot...
Pelosi Names Schiff, Nadler as Prosecutors for Impeachment Trial
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday named two House chairmen who led President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry as prosecutors for Trump’s Senate trial. Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who led the probe, and Judiciary Chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler, whose committee approved the impeachment articles, as among the managers of...
Pelosi Names Impeachment Prosecutors, Triggering Senate Trial
REUTERSThe team of House Democratic lawmakers who will act as prosecutors in the impeachment trial of President Trump was formally introduced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an announcement on Wednesday morning.The speaker named seven so-called “impeachment managers” who will take up the case, outlined in the two articles of impeachment that the House...
Democrats Disclose New Documents Ahead of Impeachment Trial
House Democrats have released documents they obtained from a close associate of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, including a handwritten note that mentions asking Ukraine’s president to investigate “the Biden case. …read more Source:: U.S....
Giuliani Associates May Have Surveilled U.S. Ambassador, New Evidence Shows
The latest batch of House evidence before Trump’s impeachment trial begins includes explosive evidence linking the president’s lawyer and associates to the campaign to bully Ukraine to investigate Trump’s rivals. …read more Source:: Foreign...
New video shows that 2 missiles struck the Ukrainian plane that crashed in Iran
A new video shows that two missiles struck Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which crashed shortly after taking off from the airport in Tehran early last Wednesday. The video appears to be from a security camera on the roof of a building near where the plane was struck. The video, which was uploaded to YouTube by an Iranian user early on...
Delay over, House to send articles of impeachment to Senate
WASHINGTON — The House is set to vote Wednesday to send the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate for a landmark trial on whether the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress are grounds for his removal. Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans a morning announcement to name the House managers who will prosecute the...
Universities plan moment of silence and the growing deficit; In The News for Jan. 15
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 15 … What we are watching in Canada … Universities across Canada are coming together today to honour the victims of a plane crash in Iran that left no survivors a week...
The Crossing: What to watch as impeachment heads to Senate
WASHINGTON — The articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump don’t move to the Senate by themselves. They are escorted by specific political stars along a tightly choreographed path from the House through the Capitol rotunda to the Senate for trial. There waits more history, pageantry and tradition of a type that’s only...
