Section: US & Canada
‘Quid pro quo’ has got to go: Here’s the latest batch of banned words
Author: 13 ON YOUR SIDE Staff GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A Michigan university has released its 45th annual list of words or phrases that should be retired and at the top: quid pro quo. The Latin phrase got new life during the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump. The president repeatedly declared there was no “quid pro quo” with...
Ukrainian Nationalists Honor Controversial WWII-Era Leader
Thousands joined an annual January 1 march in Kyiv organized by the right-wing Svoboda party marking the birthday of the controversial 20th-century nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, who is hailed by many in Ukraine as a freedom fighter. In neighboring Russia, however, he is seen as a traitor to the Soviet Union who collaborated with the Nazis....
Baghdad embassy attack prompts Pompeo to delay Ukraine visit
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo postpones trip to Ukraine, will focus on Iraq
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday postponed a trip to Ukraine so he could focus on the situation in Iraq after demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassy. …read more Source:: Global...
Pompeo Postpones Ukraine Trip After Attack on US Embassy in Iraq
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday postponed a trip to Ukraine, the country at the heart of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, after an attack on the American embassy in Iraq, the State Department announced.Pompeo had been due to travel at week’s end to Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and...
Pompeo postpones Ukraine trip due to situation in Iraq
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo postponed a planned trip to Ukraine to deal with the ongoing developments out of Baghdad, the State Department announced Wednesday. “Secretary Pompeo must postpone his visit to Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Cyprus due to the need for the Secretary to be in Washington, D.C., to continue monitoring the...
Trump Lawyer Giuliani Says He Would Testify at President’s Impeachment Trial
Rudy Giuliani, U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and a key figure in pressing Ukraine to launch investigations to benefit Trump politically, says he would testify at the president’s looming impeachment trial and do whatever he can to see him acquitted.”I would testify, I would, um, do demonstrations. I’d give...
The 2010s Were a Foreign-Policy Disaster
Every four years, after the U.S. presidential election, the National Intelligence Council publishes a report looking ahead to the next two decades in global affairs. We do not have a report to mark the beginning of the 2010s, but the council’s 2012 report, “Alternative Worlds,” described two scenarios—the best plausible case and the worst...
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Underlines National Unity In New Year’s Address
In his New Year greeting to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dispensed with lofty words, saying that he wouldn’t bore his fellow citizens with terms such as “GDP, dropping inflation, implementation, diversification, and other unintelligible words.” …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Giuliani Says He’s Prepared to ‘Do Demonstrations’ at Trump’s Impeachment Trial
JIM WATSON at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
