Section: US & Canada
Opposition Wins No Seats in Belarus Election; Lukashenko Vows to Stay Put
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko maintained his hold on power after results published Monday showed not a single opposition candidate had won a seat in a weekend parliamentary election.Lukashenko has governed the former Soviet republic with an iron fist for a quarter of a century and he announced on Sunday he would stand again in the 2020...
Joe Biden’s Former Ukraine Adviser at Center of House Impeachment Inquiry
A former State Department official who advised Joe Biden on Ukrainian affairs played a key role in raising concerns about President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate both the former VP and his son, Hunter. Amos Hochstein is a former State Department official who served as an adviser to Biden from 2011 to...
Campaign Struggling With Black Voters Touts Video of White Boomers Dancing to Panic! at the Disco
South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg is threatening to upend the 2020 Democratic primary after a recent CNN poll found him comfortably leading the field in Iowa at 25 percent. Buttigieg’s success has been driven in part by his popularity among rich white liberals with college degrees, as evidenced by his dominance in the “boat...
U.S. officials were aware of Ukraine’s Trump anxiety: sources
The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because of the diplomatic and political sensitivity of the issue. …read more Source:: Global...
Ron Johnson: Ukrainians Felt No Pressure From White House Over Withheld Aid
Republican senator Ron Johnson (Wis.) said Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made no mention during their September meeting in Kiev of feeling pressure from the White House to take action in return for military aid, contradicting his Democratic colleague Chris Murphy’s characterization of the meeting. In a Monday afternoon letter sent...
Nunes Protégé Now At White House Sues Politico Over Impeachment Stories
A White House official sued Politico and one of its reporters Monday, claiming its coverage putting him near the center of the impeachment drama was defamatory. Kash Patel, a former lawyer for the Republicans’ side of the House Intelligence Committee who early this year joined the White House National Security Council, filed the suit in...
These Are the 8 Witnesses Set to Testify at This Week’s Impeachment Hearings
The second week of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is moving out of the “heard it from a friend” stage to focus on witnesses who actually listened in on the phone call between President Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine, or who talked directly with Trump about administration policy toward the former Soviet republic....
Pelosi Pushes Back On GOP’s Talking Point On Delay Of Ukraine Aid
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sent a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Monday that addressed President Donald Trump and his allies’ argument that Trump did nothing wrong because Ukraine eventually received the aid that the administration had frozen. Pelosi argued against the “dangerous position” that the election ought to decide...
Top Trump Official Who Touted Bogus Credentials Resigns
A senior official at the State Department who came under fire after NBC News reported that she fabricated aspects of her professional and educational background, which included a fake TIME Magazine cover of herself, has reportedly resigned. According to a resignation letter obtained by Politico Monday afternoon, Mina Chang — who served as the...
White House official sues Politico for story about his role in Trump’s Ukraine dealings
An official on the White House’s National Security Council (NSC) sued Politico and one of its reporters on Monday over a story claiming the staffer had passed information on Ukraine to President Trump.Court filings… …read more Source:: The...
