Section: US & Canada
USS Ross arrives in Ukraine after simulated Russian attack at sea
The USS Ross this week arrived in Odessa, Ukraine, for a scheduled port visit, a day after being targeted by Russian aircraft — and weeks after being trailed by a Russian warship — according to reports. …read more Source:: United Press...
Ukraine Announces Agreement To Buy More Javelins From The US
Ukraine and the US signed an agreement for the delivery of a second round of Javelin anti-tank missiles, Ukrainian Defense Minister Anatoly Petrenko said on Thursday. The agreement to deliver the advanced missile system comes months into a scandal generated by the Trump administration’s withholding of $391 million in military aid this...
Officials Who Spoke Out Against Trump Continue To Pay The Price
President Donald Trump and his loyal Republicans have turned against many of his own foreign policy apparatuses since the impeachment inquiry, leaving those officials who spoke out against him to pay the price in the workplace. According to the Washington Post, an uptick of angry tweets from Trump sends armed security officers to the...
GOP senator ‘disturbed’ by McConnell impeachment remark
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, remains undecided on how she will vote when the Senate trial takes place. Author: Associated Press, TEGNA U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, said she was disturbed to hear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell say there would be “total coordination” between the White House and...
Murkowski ‘Disturbed’ By McConnell Vow To Coordinate Impeachment Trial With WH
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), a key swing vote when it comes to the impeachment process set to begin in the Senate next month, voiced her concerns this week about Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) promise to work in “total coordination” with the White House. “When I heard that I was disturbed,” Murkowski told the local NBC News...
Trump Lashes Out Against Democratic Lawmakers over Impeachment
U.S. President Donald Trump continued to lash out at Democratic lawmakers over his impeachment Thursday as a legislative standoff continues over a Senate impeachment trial.”The Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats said they wanted to RUSH everything through to the Senate because ‘President Trump is a threat to National Security’...
The Words That Explained the World in 2019
A look at terms from India and El Salvador to South Korea and Ukraine. …read more Source:: Foreign...
Celebrations Greet Moscow-Simferopol Train After Opening Of Bridge To Crimea
Residents of the Crimean city of Simferopol cheered the arrival of a train from Moscow, the first to make that journey since transport links with mainland Ukraine were severed five years ago. As the train arrived early on December 26, local officials thanked Vladimir Putin for the construction of the bridge over the Kerch Strait, which the...
LONG Russian, Ukrainian State Gas Companies To Meet On Finalizing New Gas Contract
The state-owned gas companies of Russia and Ukraine are set to meet in Vienna on December 26 to finalize a new natural-gas transit contract. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Alaska Senator ‘Disturbed’ by McConnell Position on Impeachment Trial
Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski said she was “disturbed” by the Senate leader’s approach to working with White House counsel on the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, saying there should be distance between the two. The comments by the Alaska lawmaker came after Mitch McConnell, majority leader of the...
