Section: US & Canada
Trump Wants America to Trust Him on Iran
More so than any president in the modern era, Donald Trump has made his administration a one-man spectacle. He hires and fires officials on impulse, demonstrating at every turn that the people under him are disposable and he’s the only figure who counts. Should the conflict with Iran escalate into a hot war, Trump will be the one who needs...
Senate Impeachment Trial in Flux Amid Mideast Crisis
Congress opened for the new year Friday with President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial deeply in flux and the crisis in the Middle East only adding to the uncertainty about how lawmakers will proceed.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is set to deliver remarks as the Senate gavels into session. But Trump’s Senate trial cannot...
Trump Judge Suggests DOJ Could Ignore Order OKing Release Of Mueller Grand Jury Docs
A Trump-appointed appeals court judge and the House’s top lawyer tangled for several minutes Friday over the idea that court could authorize the Justice Department to release special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury materials, but not compel it to. The lawyer, House General Counsel Douglas Letter, said the premise D.C. Circuit...
Manufactured Ignorance about the Ukrainian-Canadian Left
In recent years, a new academic field has emerged, called agnotology. The name comes from the old Greek agnōsis, meaning “ignorance,” and -logia, meaning “the study of.” Agnotology is the study of ignorance. More specifically, it is the study of how ignorance is often manufactured in order to obscure matters of fact. For example, in the last...
Judge Lets Giuliani Bud Parnas Give House Intel iPhone, Docs
A federal judge allowed Giuliani associate Lev Parnas to hand over the contents of an iPhone and other documents to the House Intelligence Committee in a Friday morning order. Manhattan federal district judge Paul Oetken granted an unopposed request from Parnas to share the contents of the iPhone that Parnas was carrying at the time of his...
Dem Rep: Trump Killed Soleimani to Distract From Impeachment
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) said President Donald Trump’s decision to kill Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani was made because he wanted to distract the public from recent developments in the impeachment inquiry. “What I think is going on here, frankly, is that this action was taken more in President Trump’s...
DOJ On McGahn: Courts Have No Role In Fights Between Congress, White House
Federal courts should not rule on separation-of-powers disputes between Congress and the White House, the Justice Department argued Friday. The oral arguments came in D.C. federal appeals court as the House Judiciary Committee seeks to enforce a subpoena it issued in April for testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn. “We have two...
Trump made the order to hold Ukraine’s aid, an OMB official reportedly told the Pentagon
…read more Source:: Pittsburgh...
News of the Day From Around the World, Jan. 2
1 Hillary Clinton: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a new role: chancellor at Queen’s University in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. The university said Thursday that Clinton was appointed to a five-year term in the largely ceremonial post. “It is a great privilege to become the chancellor of Queen’s...
Schumer says newly released emails justify witnesses at impeachment trial
Sen. Charles Schumer said that newly released emails about President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine warrant Democrats’ call for witnesses and documents at the impeachment trial. …read more Source:: United Press...
