Section: US & Canada
Battle for Public Opinion Shapes Trump Impeachment Effort
With public hearings now under way in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, both sides have a key focus in mind: winning over public opinion.Support for the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry climbed quickly in the weeks following the announcement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. At present, the country remains sharply split on...
Battle for Public Opinion Shapes Trump Impeachment Effort
The impeachment inquiry involving President Donald Trump moved into an important new phase this week — public hearings. Opposition Democrats believe Trump abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to investigate a political rival, Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden. They hope the hearings will sway public opinion to support their case...
Trump impeachment hearings move forward with testimony from Marie Yovanovitch
The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine says she was targeted by the president’s allies in a “smear” campaign now central to the inquiry. …read more Source:: Global...
Watch live: Former Ukraine diplomat Marie Yovanovitch to testify at 2nd public impechment hearing Friday
After new details and some surprising testimony from two witnesses on Wednesday, House impeachment investigators will question President Donald Trump’s former ambassador to Ukraine Friday in the second public hearing. …read more Source:: United Press...
Anne Applebaum Joins The Atlantic as Staff Writer
Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is joining The Atlantic as a staff writer. Applebaum will write on national politics and foreign policy, with a particular focus on Europe, for both The Atlantic’s site and the magazine. She begins with The Atlantic in January, and joins as the publication...
‘Unpredictability’ is NATO’s Greatest Challenge Stoltenberg Says
VOA Serbian service’s Jela de Franceschi spoke with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about the shifting global alliances in the current political environment.Q. Both sides of the Atlantic are undergoing political upheaval, unprecedented in a sense. We have impeachment proceedings in the U.S., the third time in modern American...
Ukraine’s Anti-Russia Azov Battalion: ‘Minutemen’ or Neo-Nazi Terrorists?
KYIV—When Deputy Secretary of State George Kent at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
LIVE BLOG: Trump impeachment inquiry to hear from former Ukraine ambassador
Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, will testify before the U.S. House of Representatives’ intelligence committee on Friday. …read more Source:: Global...
Live coverage: Ex-Ukraine ambassador testifies in public impeachment hearing
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is slated to appear Friday morning in Democrats’ second public impeachment hearing, where she is expected to testify that a shadowy smear campaign led by Rudy Giuliani and other associates… …read more Source:: The...
Stop Waiting for a Savior
August 21, 2018, was a low point in the Trump presidency: on the same day, indeed in the same hour, the president’s former campaign chairman was found guilty of federal crimes and his former lawyer pleaded guilty in another case. While the president may have weathered the storm of that summer day, this past Wednesday—November 13—presented a...
