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    AZ Man Allegedly Threatened To ‘Blow Schiff’s Brains Out’ After Watching Fox Segment
    Feb04

    AZ Man Allegedly Threatened To ‘Blow Schiff’s Brains Out’ After Watching Fox Segment

    Tuesday, February 4 , 2020 - 22:01 (EEST) Section: TPM (USA)

    Federal prosecutors charged an Arizona man in October over alleged threats to murder House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA), a court document filed last week reveals. The document, first spotted by the eagle-eyed Nick Martin of The Informant, stems from the prosecution of Jan Peter Meister. Arizona federal prosecutors charged...

    Senators Give Speeches Ahead of Expected Vote to Acquit Trump in Impeachment Trial
    Feb04

    Senators Give Speeches Ahead of Expected Vote to Acquit Trump in Impeachment Trial

    Tuesday, February 4 , 2020 - 22:01 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    U.S. Senators were delivering speeches Tuesday on whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office, as he himself prepared to deliver his annual State of the Union address later in the day before members of Congress.The speeches by the senators, who are serving as the jurors in Trump’s impeachment trial, are not officially part...

    Tracking The Main Excuses GOP Senators Are Offering Trump Ahead Of Acquittal
    Feb04

    Tracking The Main Excuses GOP Senators Are Offering Trump Ahead Of Acquittal

    Tuesday, February 4 , 2020 - 21:01 (EEST) Section: TPM (USA)

    After months of using an inevitable impeachment trial as a pass to dodge questions about President Trump’s Ukraine behavior, the pending acquittal vote has GOP senators laying out their reasons for clearing Trump for the conduct. It’s not expected that any Republicans will join Democrats in voting to remove the President, which...

    Arch Puddington on Democracy’s Long and Winding Road
    Feb04

    Arch Puddington on Democracy’s Long and Winding Road

    Tuesday, February 4 , 2020 - 21:01 (EEST) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    Arch Puddington is a senior scholar at Freedom House, where he has worked for more than two decades. Before that, he worked as a journalist at Radio Free Europe during the final years of the Cold War. As Freedom House readies its annual “Freedom in the World” report for publication next month, TAI editor-in-chief Jeffrey Gedmin and associate...

    Why the Iowa Caucus Birthed a Thousand Conspiracy Theories
    Feb04

    Why the Iowa Caucus Birthed a Thousand Conspiracy Theories

    Tuesday, February 4 , 2020 - 21:01 (EEST) Section: The Atlantic (USA)

    Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum, and in the absence of results from the Iowa caucus, a range of conspiracy theories have sprouted.As of this morning, results from last night’s caucus are still outstanding. The Iowa Democratic Party blames that on the failures of a new application it rolled out to gather results from across the state....

    McConnell Blasts Impeachment, Will Vote to Acquit Trump
    Feb04

    McConnell Blasts Impeachment, Will Vote to Acquit Trump

    Tuesday, February 4 , 2020 - 21:01 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday slammed House Democrats’ drive to impeach President Donald Trump as “the most rushed, least fair and least thorough” in history and confirmed that he will vote to acquit him.McConnell said the two impeachment charges against Trump — that he abused his power and obstructed Congress’...

    Charlatans, Conspiracists And The Trump Boys Seize On Iowa Debacle
    Feb04

    Charlatans, Conspiracists And The Trump Boys Seize On Iowa Debacle

    Tuesday, February 4 , 2020 - 21:01 (EEST) Section: TPM (USA)

    The debacle over delayed results in the Iowa Democratic caucus Monday night has created an opening for conspiracy theorists and Trumpworld bigwigs alike to foment discord. And it’s not that the failure in Iowa itself didn’t tend towards accomplishing that, or that it’s somehow beyond the pale for political adversaries to seize...

    France’s Macron: Distancing of Russia a ‘major error’ for EU
    Feb04

    France’s Macron: Distancing of Russia a ‘major error’ for EU

    Tuesday, February 4 , 2020 - 19:01 (EEST) Section: KXAN (USA)

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia of engaging in historical revisionism on World War II but said during a visit to Poland on Tuesday that a strong Europe needs to remain open to honest dialogue with Moscow. Macron addressed students and faculty members at Jagiellonian University in Krakow on the second day of...

    The Checks and Balances That Trump Has Swept Away
    Feb04

    The Checks and Balances That Trump Has Swept Away

    Tuesday, February 4 , 2020 - 19:01 (EEST) Section: The Atlantic (USA)

    If the nation’s Founders didn’t want to constrain the president’s power, they wouldn’t have put impeachment in the Constitution. “They gave us the tools to do the job,” Representative Adam Schiff declared yesterday in his closing argument in Donald Trump’s trial. The president’s camp, meanwhile, insists that...

    Mike Pompeo Implies That a Reporter Who Pressed Him Can’t Locate Ukraine on the Map
    Feb04

    Mike Pompeo Implies That a Reporter Who Pressed Him Can’t Locate Ukraine on the Map

    Tuesday, February 4 , 2020 - 18:01 (EEST) Section: The Nation (USA)

    Calvin Trillin The post Mike Pompeo Implies That a Reporter Who Pressed Him Can’t Locate Ukraine on the Map appeared first on The Nation. …read more Source:: The...