Section: US & Canada
Trump Team Plotted Post-Hoc Justification for Withholding Ukraine Aid, Emails Suggest
Budget office says “procedures were followed.” After the talk of a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine started, President Donald Trump’s team may have sought to reverse-engineer some legitimate reasons for withholding military aid. A review by the White House Counsel’s Office found emails in which Acting Chief of Staff...
Ukraine Energy Official Told Prosecutors That Parnas, Fruman Tried To Rope Him Into Scheme
Andrew Favorov, a top Ukraine energy official, told prosecutors that Rudy Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman tried to recruit him to take over the state oil and gas company. According to the Wall Street Journal, he said that they smeared former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in the process, saying that she was part of the...
Yiddish Author Monument Vandalized With Swastikas in Ukraine
Unidentified vandals have painted swastikas on a monument to a prominent Yiddish author in the Ukrainian capital.Moshe Reuven Azman, the chief rabbi of Ukraine, posted pictures Monday of the monument to Sholem Aleichem outside Kyiv’s synagogue with big red swastikas spray-painted on it.Police have opened a probe.In a tweet, Foreign Minister...
Trump’s Defenders Are Flirting With Nihilism
The House Intelligence Committee brought impeachment onto the public stage over the last two weeks. But now Congress has scattered for Thanksgiving, cable news is picking over the remnants of the hearings in search of content, the president is fuming, and impeachment has moved into a murky new phase, the parameters of which are not entirely...
Why the Strongest Argument Against Impeachment Fails
Last week, National Review’s Jim Geraghty offered an argument against removing Donald Trump that even those of us who believe him to be guilty of bribery should ponder. If you see danger in Trumpism or think Trump is an authoritarian menace, he argued, then you have the most to lose if his presidency ends with impeachment and removal,...
Parnas Hands Over Video, Audio Recordings That Include Trump, Giuliani
The House Intelligence Committee now has access to several video and audio recordings as well as photographs that include President Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani, ABC News reported. The records were provided to the committee by Lev Parnas, the friend of Giuliani who was recently arrested over alleged campaign finance violations. Parnas is...
Yiddish author monument vandalized with swastikas in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Unidentified vandals have painted swastikas on a monument to a prominent Yiddish author in the Ukrainian capital. Moshe Reuven Azman, the chief rabbi of Ukraine, posted pictures Monday of the monument to Sholem Aleichem outside Kyiv’s synagogue with big red swastikas spray-painted on it. Police have …...
Yiddish author monument vandalized with swastikas in Ukraine
Unidentified vandals have painted swastikas on a monument to a prominent Yiddish author in the Ukrainian capital …read more Source:: ABC...
Surgery by candlelight: A small front-line hospital in Ukraine stares down Russia
On Ukraine’s front line, a provincial hospital treats civilians and soldiers. …read more Source:: Los Angeles...
Republicans Prepare to Give Hunter Biden the Benghazi Treatment
At the end of two weeks of impeachment hearings, President Donald Trump’s defenders find themselves at a crossroads. What the president stands accused of doing is, as The Atlantic’s David Frum notes, “simple and straightforward,” summarizable in “a few sentences of plain English.” The attempts of Republicans on the House Intelligence...
