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    Suspected Nazi Commander Living in US Dies at 100
    Jan22

    Suspected Nazi Commander Living in US Dies at 100

    A Minneapolis carpenter whom the Associated Press exposed as a former Nazi commander — a charge his family fiercely denied — has died.According to a Hennepin County, Minnesota, death certificate, Michael Karkoc died last month in a nursing home at age 100.The Ukrainian-born Karkoc came to the United States after World War II in 1949 and led a...

    The Solemn Absurdity of Trump’s Impeachment Trial
    Jan22

    The Solemn Absurdity of Trump’s Impeachment Trial

    The impeachment trial of the century had barely begun when word came down that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had softened his initial plan to make the House managers and President Donald Trump’s lawyers present their cases in marathon 12-hour sessions over four days. He’ll allow each team a more civilized eight hours over six...

    Ukrainian TV Channel To Take Dispute With Ultraright ‘Hate’ Group to European Human Rights Court
    Jan22

    Ukrainian TV Channel To Take Dispute With Ultraright ‘Hate’ Group to European Human Rights Court

    Ukraine’s only nonprofit and independent television channel intends to seek recourse with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) regarding a Supreme Court decision on January 21 that ruled a right-wing nationalist group’s reputation had been blighted. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Senate rejects Democrats’ attempt to subpoena White House for documents on Ukraine
    Jan22

    Senate rejects Democrats’ attempt to subpoena White House for documents on Ukraine

    Democrats were hit with a denial in their first attempt to amend the rules dictating the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Tuesday, when the GOP-led Senate rejected an effort by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to demand the White House hand over documents and other records related to Ukraine.What are the details?Sen....

    NSC Russia Official’s Removal Could Signal ‘Egregious’ Security Violation
    Jan22

    NSC Russia Official’s Removal Could Signal ‘Egregious’ Security Violation

    It’s still not clear why President Trump’s third National Security Council director for Russia and Eurasia was escorted out of the White House by security last week. But what is clear is that it’s a really big deal. NSC director for Russia and Eurasia Andrew Peek was put on administrative leave last week amid an unspecified...

    Team Biden’s Been Prepping for Impeachment Smears for Months
    Jan22

    Team Biden’s Been Prepping for Impeachment Smears for Months

    Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesAs former Vice President Joe Biden prepares for his and his family’s reputation to be dragged across the floor of the Senate, the chamber where he spent the bulk of his career, his campaign has made only minor tweaks to the plan to defend him. While the stage is bigger given the smears from the White House will be...

    House’s Prosecutors Supported Impeachment Well Before Trump’s Ukraine Call
    Jan22

    House’s Prosecutors Supported Impeachment Well Before Trump’s Ukraine Call

    Three of the House Democrats prosecuting President Donald Trump in the Senate’s impeachment trial—Jerry Nadler of New York, Zoe Lofgren of California, and Sylvia Garcia of Texas—are among lawmakers who voted last year to advance the president’s removal. Eight days after that vote, Trump talked by phone with Ukrainian President...

    Obama Wanted To ‘Look Forward’ From Bush Scandals. Warren Is Making No Such Promises
    Jan22

    Obama Wanted To ‘Look Forward’ From Bush Scandals. Warren Is Making No Such Promises

    Before a backdrop of an impeachment trial that’ll probably lack witnesses and any evidentiary documents thanks to Senate Republicans, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is promising to hold President Trump and his administration accountable — even if the justice is retroactive. One of her campaign proposals, published Tuesday, would establish a...

    Adam Schiff says calling Hunter Biden would be ‘an illegitimate abuse’ of the Senate’s impeachment trial
    Jan22

    Adam Schiff says calling Hunter Biden would be ‘an illegitimate abuse’ of the Senate’s impeachment trial

    The House’s top impeachment prosecutor said this week that calling in Hunter Biden to testify as a witness during the Senate’s impeachment trial would constitute “an illegitimate abuse” of the process.In an interview with “CBS Evening News” that was posted Tuesday morning, House Intelligence Committee Chairman...

    Trump’s Myth About Adam Schiff
    Jan22

    Trump’s Myth About Adam Schiff

    Never in the field of political conflict has so much been made by so many out of so little.Because the topic here is caricatured speeches, I hasten to add: Winston Churchill didn’t say that. As the Senate’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins, one of the more curious, and less enlightening, elements has been the focus by the...