Section: US & Canada
NATO chief says Canadian missions in Latvia, Iraq helping strengthen alliance
LONDON — NATO’s secretary-general has come out swinging in defence of the military alliance, and says Canada is playing a key role in the helping strengthen the 70-year-old organization thanks in part to its contributions to different missions. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Jens Stoltenberg listed Canada’s deployment of...
NATO chief says Canadian missions in Latvia, Iraq helping strengthen alliance
LONDON — NATO’s secretary-general has come out swinging in defence of the military alliance, and says Canada is playing a key role in the helping strengthen the 70-year-old organization thanks in part to its contributions to different missions. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Jens Stoltenberg listed Canada’s deployment of...
For America’s Closest Friends, the Abuse Keeps Coming
During a testy joint press conference at the NATO summit in London yesterday, President Donald Trump and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, argued openly over how the 70-year-old alliance should handle Russia, the Islamic State, and Turkey. When interacting with allied leaders, Trump’s predecessors have generally followed a golden...
Trump to join NATO leaders during impeachment hearing
LONDON — President Donald Trump will huddle with NATO leaders as House Democrats resume their impeachment inquiry probing whether he abused his presidential authority by urging a foreign leader to open an investigation of his political rival. Trump is set to meet Wednesday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe...
NATO’s Trump Whisperer
Donald Trump has said it is obsolete, Emmanuel Macron argues it is suffering a “brain death,” and fewer than a third of people in Germany, France, and Spain have a favorable view of it. Questions abound over its long-term relevance; its own members are placing tariffs on one another; and through it all, Russia looms as the ever-present adversary....
Nunes, Top Intelligence Panel Republican, had Frequent Contact with Giuliani, Call Records Show
U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, often spoke to Representative Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, as Giuliani peddled unproven allegations at the heart of the Trump impeachment inquiry, a congressional report said on Tuesday.Previously undisclosed telephone records appended to a...
House Democrats Lay Out Lengthy Case for Impeachment
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives laid out their strongest case for impeaching U.S. President Donald Trump in a highly anticipated report on Tuesday.The 300-page report accused Trump of “misconduct” in seeking Ukrainian political interference in the 2020 presidential election and then relentlessly trying to “obstruct” Congress as it...
Read the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report in full
The damning report found that President Trump engaged in a quid pro quo with Ukraine and that he obstructed Congress’ impeachment inquiry. …read more Source:: Business...
Continetti: ‘Lack of a Crime’ Makes It Difficult to Make the Case for Impeachment
Washington Free Beacon founding editor Matthew Continetti on Tuesday said it will be difficult for Democrats to make the case for impeaching President Donald Trump when there is a “lack of a crime.” Continetti appeared on Fox News’s Special Report panel, where he outlined some of the issues Democrats face during their push for...
Impeaching Trump Is About More Than Punishment
Impeachment is often understood as a punitive measure. When the president (or any other federal official) breaks their constitutional oath, Congress can step in and deprive the person of the office. But the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report, released on Tuesday, makes clear that it can be a preventative one as well.“Having...
