Section: US & Canada
Center for Public Integrity Challenges Trump Administration Over Heavily Redacted Ukraine Emails
Jim Watson/GettyBy Rui Kaneya, Alexia Fernández Campbell and Jim Morris, Center for Public IntegrityThe at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Some Trump Defenders Seek Senate Testimony From Hunter Biden, Adam Schiff
House Republicans sought earlier this week to get a minority hearing to call their own witnesses, as was done in previous impeachment inquiries. House Democrats, in the majority, rejected the proposal. That’s among the reasons many in the GOP were disappointed when Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Fox News Channel that...
Illinois man charged with making threat against Congressman Rodney Davis
The defendant, Randall E. Tarr, made the threat over a widely debunked conspiracy theory about Ukraine’s role in the 2016 U.S. election, prosecutors said. …read more Source::...
In Round One of Ukraine Peace Talks, Zelenskyy Holds His Own With Putin
KYIV, Ukraine—These days, it gets dark around 4 p.m. here in Ukraine’s capital city. The leaves are all gone from the trees, and the skies are often gray. The Dnieper River hasn’t iced over yet. However, about 400 miles southeast of Kyiv in Ukraine’s embattled Donbas region, the front lines of Europe’s only ongoing land...
Playing Down Impeachment, Trump Campaign Voices Confidence
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign on Thursday shrugged off the president’s expected impeachment less than a year before Election Day, talking up the campaign’s data collection efforts and declaring that no one in the Democratic field can compete with the incumbent.With a House impeachment vote expected next week, the...
Visiting Ukrainian Official Says Relations With U.S. Remain ‘Unshattered’
The first Ukrainian administration official to visit Washington in months says bilateral relations remain strong despite the central role Ukraine has played in the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
White House limits number of officials allowed to listen to Trump calls with foreign leaders: report
Fewer administration officials are allowed to listen to President Trump’s phone calls with foreign leaders after the president’s July 25 call with the leader of Ukraine became a central part of the House impeachment inqui… …read more Source:: The...
From Xi Jinping to Nancy Pelosi, These 6 Leaders Shaped the World in 2019
Through policies and power, leaders from New Zealand, France, India, China and the U.S. influenced the world more than any others in 2019. Here’s why these six were so important this year. Xi Jinping, President of China Illustration by Nigel Buchanan for TIMEOn Oct. 1, a parade of tanks, troops and nuclear missiles rolled through Beijing to...
Democrat who feared Guam could ‘tip over and capsize’ says President Trump’s height caused ‘imbalance of power’ with Ukraine’s president
The gems that proceed from the mouth of Democratic U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson are priceless, indeed.Known far and wide for his outlandish statements — his doozy of all time coming in 2010 when he feared the island of Guam might “tip over and capsize” due to overpopulation — the Georgia congressman reloaded during Thursday’s...
Trump Warns of ‘Trivializing’ Impeachment as House Panel OKs Abuse and Obstruction Charges
The House Judiciary Committee voted Friday morning along party lines to impeach President Donald Trump, sending two charges to the House floor for what is expected to be another party-line vote next week to set up a Senate trial in January. Now attention turns to the 31 House Democrats who were elected last year in congressional districts Trump...
