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    MSNBC’s Joy Reid wants a ‘Trump Crimes Commission’ installed after the election
    Aug19

    MSNBC’s Joy Reid wants a ‘Trump Crimes Commission’ installed after the election

    MSNBC host Joy Reid floated the idea of a potential future Biden administration establishing a “Trump Crimes Commission” to investigate President Donald Trump’s actions while in office — and perhaps even during his campaign, Mediaite reported.Such a move would be unprecedented in American politics, as it is a longstanding norm...

    Russiagate Was Not a Hoax
    Aug19

    Russiagate Was Not a Hoax

    Rereading the Mueller report more than a year after its publication is an exercise in disappointment. One gets the feeling that Robert Mueller didn’t press his inquiry to its end. Instead of settling the questions that haunt the 2016 campaign, he left them dangling, publishing a stilted document riddled with insinuation and lacunae. He...

    How Two U.S. Religious Aid Workers May Have Helped A Ukrainian Tycoon Launder Millions
    Aug19

    How Two U.S. Religious Aid Workers May Have Helped A Ukrainian Tycoon Launder Millions

    Mordechai Korf traveled on a religious mission to his family’s ancestral home in Ukraine just as the Soviet Union was collapsing. Years later, he and a close friend became very wealthy men. U.S. authorities say the men played a key role in helping Ukrainian tycoon Ihor Kolomoyskiy launder hundreds of millions of dollars in the United...

    EU leaders seek to ramp up pressure on Belarus president
    Aug19

    EU leaders seek to ramp up pressure on Belarus president

    BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are putting on a show of support Wednesday for people protesting in Belarus. Emergency talks will aim to highlight their concern about the contested presidential election and ratchet up pressure on officials linked to the security crackdown that followed. The EU believes that the results of the Aug. 9 polls,...

    Another Arson Attack Appears To Target RFE/RL Journalists In Ukraine
    Aug19

    Another Arson Attack Appears To Target RFE/RL Journalists In Ukraine

    An arson attack on a car used by an RFE/RL investigative team has been captured on surveillance cameras. The attack came days after a journalist belonging to the same team claimed to have found possible evidence of surveillance equipment in his apartment. In January, the car of an RFE/RL journalist was also targeted. …read more Source::...

    Trump Denies Collusion After Senate Report Finds Evidence Of Russia’s 2016 Election Interference
    Aug19

    Trump Denies Collusion After Senate Report Finds Evidence Of Russia’s 2016 Election Interference

    U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s final report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election showed he had not colluded with Russia or Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Marie Yovanovitch appears in Dem convention video ripping Trump
    Aug19

    Marie Yovanovitch appears in Dem convention video ripping Trump

    Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and a key witness in President Trump’s impeachment proceedings last year, appeared in a montage of former … …read more Source:: The...

    Senate Intel Panel Finds ‘Absolutely No Evidence’ of Collusion, Faced Roadblocks
    Aug19

    Senate Intel Panel Finds ‘Absolutely No Evidence’ of Collusion, Faced Roadblocks

    The Senate Intelligence Committee said in a long-awaited report released Tuesday that there is no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election, affirming the findings of other investigations into an alleged Trump-Kremlin conspiracy. The Intelligence Committee’s report, which clocks in...

    Four Ways In Which Senate Intel’s Bipartisan Russia Report Went Further Than Mueller’s
    Aug19

    Four Ways In Which Senate Intel’s Bipartisan Russia Report Went Further Than Mueller’s

    The nearly 1,000 page report released by the Senate Thursday morning reveals new details about Russian interference in the 2016 election, going beyond — and at times openly contradicting — the findings of the Mueller report. The Senate Intelligence Committee released the report into Russian meddling and allegations of ties between the Trump...

    FAQ: Who is Konstantin Kilimnik and why does his name appear 800 times in a Senate report?
    Aug19

    FAQ: Who is Konstantin Kilimnik and why does his name appear 800 times in a Senate report?

    In Ukraine, he was dubbed “Manafort’s Manafort.” …read more Source:: The Washington...