Section: US & Canada
House Dems Release Short Video To Capture Most Damning Inquiry Moments
In an attempt to make the sprawling impeachment inquiry and the cast of characters it orbits digestible, House Democrats have produced a two-minute movie-trailer-style video aimed at highlighting the most damning moments for President Donald Trump during last month’s hearings. Politico first obtained the video and attributed it to House...
Jews Angered by Activists’ Use of Holocaust Victims’ Remains
Jewish groups expressed outrage on Tuesday at an oversized urn placed in front of the German parliament that those behind it claim contains Holocaust victims’ remains and is meant to highlight the dangers of far-right extremism. The International Auschwitz Committee condemned the action by the Center for Political Beauty, which unveiled the...
The Betrayal of Volodymyr Zelensky
Last May, in the weeks leading up to his presidential inauguration, Volodymyr Zelensky learned that a man named Rudy Giuliani wanted to meet with him. The name was only distantly familiar. But the former mayor of New York City was the personal attorney of the president of the United States, and he apparently wanted to make the case that certain...
NATO and can a judge be a feminist?; In-The-News gets existential on Dec. 3
In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 3. What we are watching in Canada … Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will seek to deflect questions about Canadian defence spending when he meets with fellow NATO leaders starting...
US House Impeachment Inquiry Picks Up Steam
After two weeks of public hearings on U.S. President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are moving closer to formally impeaching the president on yet-to-be determined charges.While a vote to impeach by the full House is not expected until before Christmas, the pace of the impeachment inquiry...
Trump Says Congress Censure Over Ukraine Would Be Unacceptable
By Steve HollandLONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday angrily denounced talk among some U.S. lawmakers of censuring him as an… …read more Source:: U.S....
What Happened to Peter Daou?
In November, the liberal activist and Twitter personality Peter Daou got into a spat with an unlikely adversary: Neera Tanden, the head of the Center for American Progress and Daou’s erstwhile ally in the fight to elect Hillary Clinton president in 2016. After she called his criticism of Obamacare from the left “enraging and the most...
Ukraine Knew of Aid Freeze in July, Says Ex-Top Official in Kyiv
Ukraine’s government learned of the military aid freeze during the Trump administration’s pressure campaign — and tried to keep that knowledge from going public, says an ex-deputy foreign minister. …read more Source:: The New York...
House Intelligence Committee Plans Tuesday Release of Impeachment Report
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee is expected to publicly release Tuesday a report on its findings and recommendations in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.Committee Chairman Adam Schiff told MSNBC late Monday that the panel was “putting the finishing touches” on the report. He also said the committee would vote...
Rosenstein Said He was ‘Horrified’ at How Comey was Fired
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told the FBI he was “angry, ashamed, horrified and embarrassed” at the way James Comey was fired as FBI director, according to records released Monday.Rosenstein was interviewed by FBI agents several weeks after Comey’s firing as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s...
