Section: US & Canada
Biden Says He Doesn’t Actually Know What Hunter Did In Ukraine: ‘I Trust My Son’
Former Vice President Joe Biden grew defensive during an interview with Axios that aired Sunday evening, calling out reporter Mike Allen for asking about the allegations against his son and admitting he doesn’t actually know what Hunter Biden was doing to earn money on the board of an energy company in Ukraine. “I don’t know what he...
LIVEBLOG: House Lawyers Give Impeachment Presentation For Judiciary Committee
WASHINGTON – The impeachment hearing Monday is expected to feature counsel from the House Judiciary Committee and from the House Intelligence Committee presenting evidence related to the impeachment push. The hearing is the next big step the committee is taking as it prepares to draft articles of impeachment against President Trump, and it will...
With Few Cards to Play, Zelensky Meets Putin Face to Face
Presidents Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are meeting for the first time, seeking to end the war in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:: The New York...
Judiciary hearing sets stage for Trump impeachment charges
WASHINGTON — Pushing ahead with articles of impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee convenes Monday to formally receive the investigative findings against President Donald Trump as the White House and its allies launch an aggressive attack on Democrats and the proceedings. Chairman Jerrold Nadler expects the committee to vote soon, possibly...
Judiciary hearing sets stage for Trump impeachment charges
WASHINGTON — Pushing ahead with articles of impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee convenes Monday to formally receive the investigative findings against President Donald Trump as the White House mounts an aggressive attack on the proceedings. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler says he expects the committee to vote soon on...
Republicans are Defining Foreign Interference Down
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is not a fool, but he seems to think that Americans—or at least Meet the Press viewers—are fools themselves. Conservative outlets and pundits have long claimed that Ukrainian officials interfered in the 2016 presidential election to undermine then-candidate Donald Trump and aid Hillary Clinton. Over the past three months,...
Rudy Giuliani Knows What He’s Doing
It can sometimes seem as if Donald Trump has outsourced the defense of his presidency to an erratic buffoon. Rudy Giuliani is the self-styled security expert who can’t stop butt-dialing. He is the trusted attorney who journalists routinely bait into damning admissions. The man once hailed as America’s mayor is now widely viewed as a...
The Man Behind the Right Wing’s Favorite Conspiracy Theories
No one is sure where President Trump got the idea that the Democratic National Committee’s hacked server was hidden in Ukraine. As the impeachment saga unfolds, even the president’s most ardent defenders, from Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, would rather talk about quid pro quos or revive the...
EXCLUSIVE: Oligarch Kolomoisky Linked To Giuliani Campaign For Dirt
Hidden behind a retinue of fixers, intermediaries and opportunists lurks another figure in President Trump’s Ukraine scandal. You probably haven’t heard of him, but his involvement has been rumored for months among Ukrainians in the know. Still, it wasn’t until Rudy Giuliani’s trip to Kyiv last week that observers of...
Peace in sight? Paris summit seeks solution for Ukraine war
A long-awaited summit in Paris is aiming to find a way to end the war in eastern Ukraine …read more Source:: ABC...
