Section: US & Canada
Across Capitol Hill, impeachment saga shifts
WASHINGTON — A different chairman. A committee twice the size. A shift from evidence to law. Wednesday’s Judiciary Committee hearing was full of signs that the impeachment of President Donald Trump is advancing away from the drama of his Ukraine conduct toward the grave business of approving charges against him. That meant turning from...
Ukraine Detains Member Of United Russia Party Member From Crimea
Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) on December 4 detained a member of Russia’s governing United Russia party while he was crossing the administrative border with Crimea on suspicion of infringing on the territorial integrity of Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Joe Biden says he will refuse to testify in Senate impeachment trial if called
Presidential frontrunner Joe Biden told reporters that he would refuse to testify voluntarily if the Senate called him to do so in their impeachment hearings. Peter Doocy of Fox News asked the former vice president of the possibility of being called to testify. “If there’s a Senate impeachment trial, they might want to call you as a...
Vladimir Putin uses impeachment to exacerbate rifts in U.S.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is exploiting political divisions around the impeachment in Washington with the goal of driving a sharp new wedge between the U.S. and Ukraine, the energy-rich former Soviet republic that Moscow has long sought to control. U.S. intelligence officials are particularly wary that the longstanding bipartisan consensus...
6 Big Moments from Day 1 of the Second Round of Impeachment Hearings
The House Judiciary Committee, holding its first day of impeachment hearings Wednesday, heard from four legal scholars on the case for and against removing President Donald Trump from office less than a year before a presidential election. After five days of public hearings over two weeks, the House Intelligence Committee submitted its...
Amid Contentious Impeachment Hearing, Lawmakers Express Bilateral Support For Ukraine
As the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee began a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill in the Ukraine-centered impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, a bipartisan group of lawmakers gathered in the same building to express clear support for the beleaguered eastern European nation and its new leader. …read more Source::...
Here are the top takeaways from the House judiciary panel’s impeachment hearing
The Democrat-led panel heard four legal scholars interpret and debate the U.S. Constitution’s standards for impeachment, and whether or not Trump’s efforts toward Ukraine met that legal bar. …read more Source::...
President Donald Trump to seek $250M in additional military aid for Ukraine
Pentagon and congressional sources confirmed Wednesday that President Donald Trump will seek at least another $250 million in security aid for Ukraine in his 2020 budget request. …read more Source:: United Press...
Rudy Giuliani has been meeting with former Ukrainian officials in Europe to combat impeachment narrative
Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and a central figure in the impeachment inquiry, has been meeting with former Ukrainian officials in Europe as part of an effort to refute Democrats’ impeachment narrative, according to the New York Times.The former New York City mayor, who played a significant role in...
‘Yes, you have bribery here:’ Expert Day at Trump’s impeachment
Impeachment began in the 17th century with an Englishman’s insult of the King of Bohemia, which is why we have czechs and balances today. It was a British solicitor named William Floyd who, in 1621, was sentenced by the House of Commons to pay a fine of 1,000 pounds and ride facing backward on a horse with no saddle while holding the...
