Section: US & Canada
Ukraine’s leader vows more weapons pullbacks in the works
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says that government troops will begin the pullback in a second location in eastern Ukraine next week if a cease-fire there persists …read more Source:: ABC...
Top Russia official arrives for testimony in Trump impeachment inquiry
Tim Morrison, a top White House Russia expert, arrived Thursday to testify behind closed-doors about President Trump’s contacts with Ukraine, the latest in a growing string of witnesses to buck the president and appear as… …read more Source:: The...
Ukraine’s leader vows more weapons pullbacks in the works
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Anonymous Is a Coward
The Ukrainian scandal has been marked by profiles in both courage and cowardice.A succession of career officials from the State Department and the Department of Defense—beginning with Bill Taylor, the chargé d’affaires at the embassy in Ukraine—have defied the Trump White House, testifying under oath to Congress about presidential abuses of...
Former Trump adviser next in line to be asked about Ukraine
House investigators expect to hear from Tim Morrison, who until recently was President Donald Trump’s top adviser for Russian and European affairs …read more Source:: The Boston...
A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.
Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the...
US House Expected to Pass Resolution on Impeachment Process
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass a resolution Thursday formally setting out the process by which committees will continue carrying out the inquiry into whether President Donald Trump should face impeachment.The vote is likely to show the divide in the House between the majority Democrats whose leaders have argued there was no...
Facing Up to the Past, German-Style
A compulsion to find meaning in chaos has produced many Theories of Trumpism. Initially shocked by such an erratic candidate and a startlingly racist campaign immediately following the United States’ first black president, some observers have, with hindsight, deemed the anomaly not only explainable, but even predictable. Backlash to Obama,...
Trump’s Empty Claims About Fighting Corruption Are a Joke
In February of 2017, just a few weeks into President Donald Trump’s reign, GOP legislators employed powers granted to them under the 1996 Congressional Review Act (CRA)—a legislative tactic described, charitably, as “rarely used”—to repeal a number of rules and regulations established by federal agencies, with a laser focus on those enacted...
Ukraine’s plan to sell farmland raises fears of foreigners
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