Section: US & Canada
Near party-line vote expected on impeachment ground rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have set the stage for certain House approval of the ground rules lawmakers will use when they consider impeaching President Donald Trump as the chamber braced for its first showdown over the inquiry. There was no doubt that the Democratic-controlled body would approve the eight pages of procedures on Thursday, with...
Zelenskiy Meets In Kyiv With NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has held talks in Kyiv with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and a small group of other officials from NATO and Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
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...
Former Trump adviser next in line to be asked about Ukraine
U.S. President Donald Trump’s top adviser for Russian and European affairs is leaving his job at the White House, a day before he’s scheduled to testify before the House impeachment investigators, a senior administration official said. …read more Source:: CTV...
Meet the Spiritual Leader of the Hong Kong Protests
HONG KONG—When reports of a possible law banning face masks at protests first surfaced this month, chat groups and online messaging boards popular with demonstrators lit up in fury over what seemed to be yet another (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to quell unrest here.Attention quickly turned to a snippet of a by-election debate from 2016,...
Hungary Vetoes NATO Statement On Ukraine Over Kyiv’s Education, Language Laws
Hungarian officials on October 30 have vetoed a joint NATO statement about Ukraine because it didn’t contain language criticizing Kyiv for its education and language laws that Budapest says deprive the rights of the Hungarian minority in the neighboring country. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Former Trump adviser next in line to be asked about Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s top adviser for Russian and European affairs is leaving his job at the White House, a day before he’s scheduled to testify before the House impeachment investigators, a senior administration official said. Tim Morrison owes his job at the National Security Council to Trump, …...
Donald Trump Jr: I Wish I Was Like Hunter Biden So I Could ‘Make Millions Off of My Father’s Presidency’
at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Vindman says White House lawyer moved Ukraine call to classified server: report
The testimony of White House official Alexander Vindman linked White House lawyer John Eisenberg to the decision to move the July 25 call at the center of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Trump to a cla… …read more Source:: The...
