Section: US & Canada
Unearthed Audio Ties Suspects in MH17 Shootdown Over Ukraine to Russian Officials: Investigators
Maxim Zmeyev/ReutersA Dutch-led team of independent prosecutors has released a at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Intercepted calls show deep Russian involvement with Ukraine rebels at time of airline shoot-down
Prosecutors released recordings showing close cooperation between rebels and Russia during time of MH-17 destruction. …read more Source:: The Washington...
That Bombshell Call Taylor Revealed Was Quite Possibly Monitored By Russians
Despite the fact that Russians have proven themselves adept at listening in on U.S. officials’ calls made from Ukraine, Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland spoke to President Donald Trump on his cellphone from a restaurant in the country’s capitol, as top Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor revealed Wednesday. In his testimony during the...
Newsletter: Building the case against Trump
Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES Building the Case Against Trump On Day 1 of the public impeachment inquiry hearings into President Trump, Democrats succeeded in more directly connecting Trump to alleged misconduct related to Ukraine while Republicans continued to cry foul. …read more Source:: Los Angeles...
Dutch-Led Investigators Probing MH17 Crash Release New Phone Intercepts With Links To Russia
The Dutch-led team investigating the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine has released new phone intercepts that it said includes recordings of Russian military commanders speaking with separatist fighters and a Kremlin official. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Top Ukrainian official: Sondland did not link aid to investigation of Bidens
Ukraine’s foreign minister told reporters on Thursday that U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland did not link investigations into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son with military assistance.”Ambassador… …read more Source:: The...
MH17 probe reveals close ties between Russia, Ukraine rebels
International investigators piecing together a criminal case in the July 2014 shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine says that evidence suggests links between Russia and rebels in the region were closer than previously believed …read more Source:: ABC...
Paul Manafort’s Lurid Shadow Hangs Over Impeachment
The commencement of public impeachment hearings has already yielded all manner of questions, details—and inane Republican theatrics—centered on the revelation that President Donald Trump tried to extort Ukraine into launching an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden. This is all unprecedented: It’s the first time that a sitting...
How Trump’s ‘Green Light’ Moment in Syria Shook the World
There was a time when the withdrawal of roughly 50 American Special Forces from a couple of outposts in a remote part of Syria wouldn’t have generated a wave of angst across the world about the United States unceremoniously dumping its allies and terminating the international system it has led for more than 70 years.That time is decidedly...
Next up in impeachment hearings: A parade of key witnesses
WASHINGTON (AP) – Several more witnesses scheduled to testify in the House impeachment hearings over the next week are expected to say they too worried about President Donald Trump’s push for Ukraine to investigate Democrats as the U.S. withheld military aid from the country. What’s ahead on the impeachment schedule: …...
