Section: US & Canada
Seized Boats ‘Ruined’ By Russia Returned To Ukraine
Three Ukrainian naval vessels, seized by Russia almost a year ago, returned to the Ukrainian port of Ochakiv on November 20. The Ukrainian navy said the three ships, two small Ukrainian armored artillery vessels and a tug boat, were in very poor condition and needed to be tugged into port by other vessels. …read more Source:: Radio Free...
WH Goes On Offense Against Schiff During Sondland Hearing
The White House went on offense against House Intel Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) in the midst EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s public testimony Wednesday. On Wednesday morning, the White House railed against Schiff shortly after he called Sondland’s testimony “among the most significant evidence to date” in the ongoing...
Compost Kids: The Virtues Of Dirt In Ukraine
Two Ukrainian teenagers have turned their small environmental project into a nationwide campaign, showing kids and schools how to reduce waste and to get digging with compost. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Pence aide denies discussion of link in Ukraine aid holdup
A top aide to Vice President Mike Pence says a conversation described by EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland about a link between military aid for Ukraine and investigations ‘never happened’ …read more Source:: The Boston...
Pence aide denies discussion of link in Ukraine aid holdup
WASHINGTON (AP) – A top aide to Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that a conversation described by EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland about a link between military aid for Ukraine and investigations “never happened.” Sondland testified Wednesday that he spoke with Pence before a Sept. 1 meeting with Ukrainian officials … …read...
Nunes Shouts About Tired Conspiracies, Ignores Sondland’s Damning Testimony
Stating he wanted to “get back to the facts of the matter here,” House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) used the beginning of his questioning time Wednesday to quiz Gordon Sondland on various Republican conspiracy theories, remarkably ignoring the very damning testimony Sondland had given minutes earlier. Despite...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump distances himself from Sondland
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump sought to defend against accusations that he pushed Ukraine’s president for a political “favor” by making a dubious claim that he had little involvement with the U.S. ambassador testifying in House impeachment hearings. Trump distanced himself Wednesday from Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador...
Sondland: Trump Conditioned Ukraine Aid on Kyiv Opening Political Investigations
U.S. diplomat Gordon Sondland emphatically told the impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump on Wednesday that despite the president’s denial, there was a conditional deal with Ukraine in recent months, that Kyiv would not get the military aid it wanted unless it opened investigations to benefit Trump politically.Sondland, the...
Alleged whistleblower was friends with current Schiff staffer while both were in the Obama White House: report
CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella, alleged to be the whistleblower whose complaint launched an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine, was friends with a current member of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s staff while they were both working in the White House during the Obama...
Ukraine Wants To Probe the Company That Paid Hunter Biden. But It’s ‘Too Sensitive’
One of the troubling questions at the center of the impeachment inquiry, at least for Republicans, has been the work that Hunter Biden did for Burisma, one of Ukraine’s largest gas companies, while his father was serving as Vice President. But the intensity of interest in Washington is only making it more difficult to resolve the mystery....
