Section: US & Canada
Impeachment Reflects Deep American Divide
The U.S. House of Representatives’ vote to impeach President Donald Trump broke along party lines Wednesday, reflecting the American public’s deep divide over the president. National polls showed public opinion remained evenly split on the president’s impeachment, moving little since the process began. According to a recent...
Democrats’ Move to Manipulate Senate Impeachment Trial Breaks Norms
President Donald Trump says White House counsel Pat Cipollone will lead his defense team in the Senate impeachment trial, but House Democrats’ tactics mean it still isn’t clear when that trial will begin. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced late Thursday afternoon that no more House votes will be taken until after Jan. 7. That...
Judicial Watch Statement on the Impeachment of President Donald Trump
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the House of Representatives’ impeachment of President Donald Trump: There has been nothing in American history that compares to the coup attack that targeted President Trump. It was an abuse of the Constitution. Frankly, the word impeachment...
GOP Embraces Trump as Never Before
One day after House Republicans stood in unanimous opposition to impeachment, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell positioned his GOP-controlled chamber to second the party’s unapologetic embrace of President Donald Trump, putting the president’s effective takeover of the party on stark display. McConnell signaled his confidence in...
Trump, impeached in Washington, is defended by Putin in Moscow
MOSCOW — Besieged in Washington, President Trump found an eager friend in Moscow on Thursday. At his annual end-of-year news conference, President Vladimir Putin of Russia parroted Trump’s talking points, mocking Wednesday’s impeachment vote as a partisan effort by Democrats to reverse their defeat in the 2016 presidential election....
Ukraine’s PrivatBank Files Additional Court Claims Against Former Oligarch Owners
Ukrainian state-owned PrivatBank on December 18 filed a $600 million lawsuit in Israel as part of its worldwide effort to recover assets it says the lender’s two previous majority shareholders had allegedly embezzled. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Passes Law That Fines Lawmakers For Multiple Voting
Ukraine’s national legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, on December 19 passed a law in its second and final reading that makes it a criminal offense for a member of parliament to vote for one or more lawmakers. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
EU: Russia, Ukraine agree ‘in principle’ on gas transit
A senior European Union official says Russia and Ukraine have reached an “agreement in principle” on the future of Russian gas transit through Ukraine …read more Source:: ABC...
Don’t Withhold the Articles of Impeachment
The House of Representatives took a historic step this week by approving two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Now the House’s leaders are mulling an unprecedented next step: withholding those articles from the Senate—and effectively blocking the president’s trial there—as leverage in negotiations over the rules...
DOJ Tries To Use House’s Impeachment Vote Against It In McGahn Case
A day after the House voted to impeach President Trump, the Justice Department used that vote against the House as the administration asks an appeals court to reverse a judge’s decision backing a House subpoena of former White House Counsel Don McGahn. The Trump administration referenced the impeachment proceedings in court briefs filed...
