Section: US & Canada
Swiss Court Orders Russia To Pay Ukraine Oil Firm $44 Million For Crimea Investments
The Supreme Court of Switzerland has ruled in favor of Ukraine’s state majority-owned Ukrnafta oil production company to recover $44 million in investments from Moscow that were lost as a result of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
UN Adopts Updated Resolution To Safeguard Rights In Crimea
The UN General Assembly on December 18 adopted a draft resolution seeking protection of human rights in Russian-occupied Crimea, according to Ukraine’s permanent mission to the international body in New York. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Samantha Bee Breaks Down Why Impeaching Trump Is Far From ‘Pointless’
TBSAfter a cold open parody of A Christmas Carol that found Samantha Bee as Ebenezer Scrooge waking up from her Trump nightmare to celebrate at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
Legacy Moment: Pelosi Leads ‘Somber’ Trump Impeachment
The House’s center of power took a seat toward the back of the chamber Wednesday. Her golden mace brooch, symbol of the House and the speaker’s authority, glinted.Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent much of the historic day within a few steps of the cloakroom door, away from better-lit seats where the managers and members were debating...
Connecticut Senators and Representatives react to House vote on articles of impeachment
HARTFORD — President Donald Trump became the third President in US history to be impeached by the House of Representatives Wednesday evening. The House voted to adopt two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Read below some of the statements from Connecticut’s Senator’s and Representatives. Senator...
3 Democrats Defect as House Votes to Impeach Trump
The Democrat-controlled House voted Wednesday night to approve two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump after about 10 hours of debate. In two historic votes largely along party lines, the House charged Trump with abusing his power by a vote of 229 to 197 and obstructing Congress by a vote of 228 to 198. Rep. Justin Amash of...
Defiant Trump rallies supporters as House impeaches him
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — Defiant in the face of a historic rebuke, President Donald Trump rallied supporters in Michigan on Wednesday night as the House voted to impeach him, declaring, “It doesn’t really feel like we’re being impeached.” Trump took the stage just minutes before he became the third president in U.S. history to be...
Donald Trump Just Became the Third President To Be Impeached
President Donald Trump has been impeached by the House of Representatives. Lawmakers on Wednesday approved articles of impeachment against Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress; the former passed 230 to 197, while the latter advanced 229 to 198. He is only the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. While the vote...
Trump’s Scarlet Letter
When the time came for the House of Representatives to give Donald Trump his ignominious place in presidential history, lawmakers flooded into the well of the chamber. They had endured six hours of fiery debate. Votes in the House have long occurred electronically, but on this historic day, members of both parties wanted a keepsake: the written...
I-M-P-E-A-C-H-E-D! House Passes Two Articles Of Impeachment Against Trump
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve two articles of impeachment against Donald J. Trump, making him just the third American president to be impeached. The floor vote was the culmination of a three-month impeachment inquiry into Trump’s and his allies’ efforts to force Ukraine into opening investigations into...
