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    Reports: U.S. Prosecutors Subpoena Records From Trump’s Inauguration Committee
    Feb05

    Reports: U.S. Prosecutors Subpoena Records From Trump’s Inauguration Committee

    The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times both reported that the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan issued a subpoena seeking information on the committee’s donors and event attendees, ticket details, federal disclosure filings, and other details. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Manhattan Feds Subpoena Trump Inaugural Committee
    Feb05

    Manhattan Feds Subpoena Trump Inaugural Committee

    Federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York sent a wide-ranging subpoena to Trump’s presidential inaugural committee today. An inaugural committee spokesman confirmed the receipt of the subpoena in a statement to TPM. “We have just received a subpoena for documents,” the statement read. “While we are still reviewing the...

    Germany Vows to Keep Troops in Lithuania, Invest More in Barracks
    Feb04

    Germany Vows to Keep Troops in Lithuania, Invest More in Barracks

    Germany will invest a total of 110 million euros until 2021 in improving military bases in Lithuania, its defense minister said on Monday, underlining Berlin’s continued commitment to the defense of its NATO allies in the Baltic region. Germany leads a NATO force of 1,200 troops from 10 countries sent to Lithuania two years ago as part of...

    Ukraine Ex-PM Accuses President of Corruption
    Feb04

    Ukraine Ex-PM Accuses President of Corruption

    Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is running for president in next month’s election, accused the incumbent of corruption — charges his office rejected as a lie as the race was heating up. Tymoshenko told The Associated Press in an interview Monday that President Petro Poroshenko has used his position to enrich himself....

    The Unquiet American
    Feb04

    The Unquiet American

    From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s RussiaMichael McFaulHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, 528 pp., $30 During a press conference at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport on September 19, 1952, the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, George Kennan, remarked that his isolation in Moscow was worse than what he had endured...

    AP Interview: Ukraine ex-PM accuses president of corruption
    Feb04

    AP Interview: Ukraine ex-PM accuses president of corruption

    AP Interview: Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is running for president in next month’s election, has accused the incumbent of corruption …read more Source: ABC...

    AP Interview: Ukraine ex-PM accuses president of corruption
    Feb04

    AP Interview: Ukraine ex-PM accuses president of corruption

    Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is running for president in next month’s election, accused the incumbent of corruption as the race was heating up. Tymoshenko told The Associated … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...

    Trump Org Sought Deutsche Bank Loan During 2016 Campaign
    Feb04

    Trump Org Sought Deutsche Bank Loan During 2016 Campaign

    The Trump Organization sought a loan from Deutsche Bank during the 2016 campaign, before being rejected in part because the bank was unsure where the money would go, the New York Times reported this weekend. The Trump Org asked Deutsche Bank to increase a preexisting loan it had out to a Florida golf resort in March 2016 in order to finance work...

    Ukraine Election Commission Receives 83 Filings For Presidential Candidates
    Feb04

    Ukraine Election Commission Receives 83 Filings For Presidential Candidates

    Ukraine’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has completed acceptance of registration documents for the March 31 presidential election, saying 83 candidates have put forth their names. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Head of Ukraine’s New Orthodox Church Assumes Office
    Feb03

    Head of Ukraine’s New Orthodox Church Assumes Office

    The newly elected head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church has officially assumed office in the capital of Kiev, a month after the church severed its centuries-long ties with the Russian Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Epiphanius I, 40, was enthroned during a lavish service at St. Sophia Cathedral in central Kiev on Sunday, a month after...