Section: US & Canada
Jury Selection Resumes in Trial of Longtime Trump Adviser Roger Stone
Jury selection resumed Wednesday in the trial of President Donald Trump’s adviser Roger Stone in a criminal case stemming from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe that detailed Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.Stone, who left the proceedings early on Tuesday’s opening day of jury selection looking ill and...
Putin: New Weapons Will Offer Russia Reliable Protection
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia’s new weapons have no foreign equivalents but he insists the country will not use them to threaten anyone.Speaking during a meeting with senior military officers, Putin said that “we plan to build up our defense capability, commissioning hypersonic, laser and other new weapons...
White House doubles down on ‘no quid pro quo’
The White House is doubling down on its insistence that there was no quid pro quo in President Trump’s interactions with Ukraine in the face of a growing body of evidence that military aid to Kiev was contingent on the fo… …read more Source:: The...
Taylor, Kent, Yovanovitch Will Be First Public Impeachment Testimonies Next Week
Several key witnesses in the House’s impeachment inquiry will be the fist to appear in public hearings next week. The move toward public hearings, rather than the behind-closed-doors testimonies that have so far taken place in sealed rooms, marks a new phase in the impeachment inquiry. The current acting ambassador to Ukraine, the former...
Lawyer For Ex-NSC Aide: Sondland ‘Fabricated Communications’ During House Testimony
Gordon Sondland — the ambassador who has already had to amend his impeachment testimony once — was accused of fabricating a separate episode in his testimony Wednesday by another witness in the Ukraine inquiry. A lawyer for former National Security Council aide Fiona Hill said on Twitter that Sondland had “fabricated” the details of an encounter...
Democrats will control Virginia government for the first time in more than two decades
Democrats will win majorities in Virginia’s House and Senate on Tuesday, CNN projects, giving the party full control of the state’s government for the first time in more than two decades. The victories put Gov. Ralph Northam and Democrats in the Legislature in position to pursue a progressive agenda — including gun control measures,...
WH Hangs Onto ‘No Quid Pro Quo’ Defense Even After Sondland Confirmed It
The White House is holding tight to its “no quid pro quo” defense, even after EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland confirmed it in a revision to his previous testimony in the House impeachment probe. During a segment on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday morning, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway argued that “no quid pro quo is proven” in...
What It’s Like to Deal With U.S. Foreign Policy in the Trump Era
The main revelation in the latest release of transcripts from the House impeachment inquiry is that Ambassador Gordon Sondland explicitly told a Ukrainian official that the U.S. would withhold military aid until his government pledged to pursue corruption investigations that Donald Trump had a political stake in—buttressing the case that the...
Republicans Are Going To Toss Gordon Sondland Under The Bus
After the House released the transcript of U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland’s testimony, in which he confirmed there was, in fact, quid pro quo associated with the Trump-Giuliani pressure campaign in Ukraine, Republicans aren’t happy. According to Politico Playbook’s interviews with a handful of Republicans...
Fox News host accuses fellow host Marie Harf of Ukraine cover-up on air, to her face
It’s not often that you see two co-hosts on the same news show getting into it, one accusing the other of covering up corruption, but that is exactly what happened Monday on Fox News channel’s “Outnumbered.”Steve Hilton, host of Fox News’ “The Next Revolution” and a regular guest on...
