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    US State Department Bars NPR Reporter from Pompeo Trip After Testy Interview
    Jan28

    US State Department Bars NPR Reporter from Pompeo Trip After Testy Interview

    The U.S. State Department removed a National Public Radio reporter from the press pool for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s upcoming foreign trip, a press association and NPR said on Monday, days after Pompeo angrily responded to another NPR journalist’s interview with him. The removal of NPR reporter Michele Kelemen, who was part of...

    EU Expands Russia Sanctions List Linked To Aggression Toward Ukraine
    Jan28

    EU Expands Russia Sanctions List Linked To Aggression Toward Ukraine

    The European Union has added seven names to its list of people facing sanctions for undermining Ukraine’s territorial integrity and independence. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Trump defense team questions Hunter Biden’s role in Ukraine amid intensifying push for witnesses
    Jan28

    Trump defense team questions Hunter Biden’s role in Ukraine amid intensifying push for witnesses

    The White House defense team sought to show Mr. Trump’s demand Ukraine investigate the Bidens was rooted in legitimate concerns. …read more Source:: Pittsburgh...

    Bolton Testimony Could Change Trump Impeachment Trial
    Jan28

    Bolton Testimony Could Change Trump Impeachment Trial

    The impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump resumed Monday amid reports of new evidence that could change Republican senators’ vote for witness testimony later this week. A New York Times report revealed former National Security Advisor John Bolton alleges Trump personally told him he conditioned aid to Ukraine on an investigation...

    Trump’s Defense Against Subpoenas Makes No Legal Sense
    Jan28

    Trump’s Defense Against Subpoenas Makes No Legal Sense

    Perhaps nothing can convince Republican senators to convict President Donald Trump, but on Friday, as Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren deftly explained why Trump’s blanket defiance of every House subpoena and request for witnesses was an impeachable obstruction of Congress, the mood in the room noticeably shifted. I had the good fortune to be...

    Trump’s Lawyers to Wrap Up Defense in Impeachment Trial
    Jan28

    Trump’s Lawyers to Wrap Up Defense in Impeachment Trial

    Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump wrap up their presentation in his Senate impeachment trial Tuesday while the question of whether witnesses will be allowed during the proceedings looms.The president’s defense team spent Monday accusing Democrats of improperly using impeachment as a weapon to get rid of a president they simply...

    Pompeo’s Ukraine Trip Hasn’t Begun, But It’s Already Ugly
    Jan28

    Pompeo’s Ukraine Trip Hasn’t Begun, But It’s Already Ugly

    SAUL LOEBKYIV—When U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives here in Ukraine on Friday, he should feel right at home. Never mind his feud with National Public Radio in Washington, verbally abusing one of its correspondents and asking her, among several expletives, “Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?”—meaning they do not.The U.S....

    Criminal Record Of Crimean Journalist Mykola Semena Officially Cleared
    Jan28

    Criminal Record Of Crimean Journalist Mykola Semena Officially Cleared

    An RFE/RL contributor in Ukraine’s Russia-controlled Crimea region has received court papers officially confirming the termination of his probation and the expunging of his criminal record. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine Detains Three Suspects Who Fought With Russian-Backed Separatists
    Jan28

    Ukraine Detains Three Suspects Who Fought With Russian-Backed Separatists

    Ukrainian authorities on January 27 said they detained three men suspected of fighting with Moscow-backed armed formations in the eastern Donetsk region. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Watch: CNN’s Don Lemon laughs until he cries as pundits portray Trump supporters as stupid hicks
    Jan28

    Watch: CNN’s Don Lemon laughs until he cries as pundits portray Trump supporters as stupid hicks

    Anti-Trump Republican Rick Wilson and New York Times op-ed writer Wajahat Ali had CNN host Don Lemon in stitches Saturday night, while doing impressions on air depicting supporters of President Donald Trump as uneducated rednecks. What are the details? The Daily Wire reported on the segment from over the weekend and provided a script of the...