Section: US & Canada
House Floats Possibility Of More Impeachment Articles If It Gets McGahn’s Testimony
The House Judiciary Committee, still fighting in court for former White House counsel Don McGahn’s testimony, suggested Monday that it was considering articles of impeachment in addition to those adopted by the House last Wednesday. The suggestion came in a court filing requested by the appeals court considering the McGahn lawsuit. The...
McConnell All But Declares There’ll Be No Movement On Impeachment Until After Holidays
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) signaled on Monday there would be no movement on impeachment until after Congress returns to session in January. Speaking to reporters in Kentucky, McConnell was tight-lipped about impeachment proceedings and how the Senate intends to handle the articles once they come over from the House, pointing...
Ukraine Emails Fuel Democrats’ Call For Impeachment Trial Witnesses
Democrats say heavily redacted emails published by the Center for Public Integrity show there is more to uncover about military aid that was withheld from Ukraine.(Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) …read more Source::...
Putin rides train connecting mainland Russia with annexed Crimea
The new rail route further cements Russia’s hold over the territory, linking it to St. Petersburg and Moscow. …read more Source:: The Washington...
US Senate Leader Not Ruling out Witnesses in Trump Impeachment Trial
U.S. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell says Republicans have not ruled out calling witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.”We haven’t ruled out witnesses,” McConnell told “Fox & Friends.” on Monday. “We’ve said, ‘Let’s handle this case just like we did with...
OSCE Says Ukraine-Russia Prisoner Swap Agreed ‘By End Of Year’
Special OSCE representative in Ukraine Martin Sajdik has announced that a trilateral forum on the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine has “reached an agreement on a mutual release and exchange of conflict-related detainees by the end of the year.” …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Schumer Details Doc Demand For Senate Impeachment Trial
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) detailed which documents he’d like to see the administration produce for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial in a Monday letter to his fellow senators, and pointed specifically to the recent release of redacted Ukraine-related emails from the Office of Management and Budget. The letter comes...
UN: Civilians Caught in Eastern Ukrainian Conflict
A report by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights finds civilians in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine remain at risk of human rights violations and death despite an easing of hostilities between the Ukrainian government and Russian-backed rebels in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.The U.N. report welcomes recent diplomatic...
How Trump’s Ukraine Pressure Campaign Grew Out Of Manafort’s Downfall
President Trump went down in history this month as the third president to be impeached, in part over an abuse of power allegation involving an attempt to extort Ukraine into attacking Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. But the story of the pressure campaign actually begins long before this year, with an individual who has gone without much...
The 2010s Were The Decade That Bent Democracy To The Breaking Point
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The decade that began in 2010 witnessed the gravest threats to the integrity of American democracy since the Civil War. It was the age of extreme polarization and political gerrymandering. It saw an unprecedent intervention in an American presidential election by a...
