Section: US & Canada
House Dems Subpoena White House In Impeachment Inquiry
The three chairs of the House’s Intelligence, Oversight, and Foreign Affairs committee subpoenaed the White House on Friday in their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign against Ukraine. Intelligence chair Adam Schiff (D-CA), Oversight chair Elijah Cummings (D-MD), and Foreign Affairs chair Eliot Engel...
Global Fund Gives Kids in Crisis-Plagued Sahel Chance at Education
A global education fund is providing tens of thousands of Sahelian children in crisis with a quality education, bringing hope to boys and girls who have known nothing but violence and sorrow in their young lives. Education Cannot Wait, a funding mechanism set up at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, globally is helping more than 1.4 million...
Opinion: Did Secretary Pompeo Forget His West Point Pledge?
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a West Point graduate, should remember the academy’s honor code as the Ukraine story unfolds: “A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”(Image credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) …read more Source::...
News Analysis: Trump’s defense on Ukraine goes beyond Nixon’s in Watergate
Like Nixon after Watergate, Trump claims he did nothing wrong because he was president — and that it was his duty to demand a foreign government investigate his political rival in exchange for a White House meeting. …read more Source:: Los Angeles...
The U.S. Gives Military Aid to Corrupt Countries All the Time
If you take Donald Trump at face value about his infamous phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, which occurred shortly after he mysteriously stopped military aid meant for Ukraine, he was only concerned about sending millions to a country known for corruption. It was just incidentally that he named his political rival’s...
The Week In Russia: Formats, Formulas, And A Kremlin Growl At Greta’s Girl Power
Will the “Steinmeier Formula” bring a breakthrough in efforts to end the war in eastern Ukraine, or run up against disputes over the timing of retuning the state border to Kyiv’s control? Also, Putin takes aim at Greta Thunberg, sending a signal to Russian protesters in the process, and an anti-Putin shaman is declared unfit to...
Why the Ukraine scandal presents danger and opportunity for Joe Biden’s White House bid
U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Joe Biden, while largely untrue, could hurt the former vice-president’s run for the Democratic presidential nomination. But they could also bolster Biden’s candidacy by suggesting Trump fears Biden so much that he’d risk impeachment to dig up dirt on him. …read more Source::...
Trump’s Ukraine Call Might Violate Election Laws, But No One’s Enforcing Them
Campaign finance lawyers believe Trump’s request to Ukraine’s president that he investigate Joe Biden and his family broke the law. But the FEC lacks a quorum and the Justice Department sees no crime.(Image credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images) …read more Source::...
The Only Time Trump Wants International Cooperation
Love your nation. Celebrate its sovereignty. Never buy into the misguided idea that someone else’s country should tell you how to run yours. President Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week was an ode to chest-thumping nationalism. But in one specialized field of human endeavor, Trump seems to believe...
House Democrats subpoena the White House and Mike Pence as part of impeachment inquiry
They asked the White House and Vice President to produce documents relating to President Donald Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president. …read more Source:: Business...
