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    The Never-Ending Impeachment
    Jan17

    The Never-Ending Impeachment

    Maybe Nancy Pelosi waited to send impeachment to the Senate because she was waiting for her pens to arrive. The fancy commemorative ballpoints, featuring the speaker’s name engraved in gold, that Pelosi gave to colleagues at Wednesday’s engrossment ceremony quickly became the subject of mockery. Republicans saw them as emblematic of...

    Alyona Alyona breathes new life into Ukrainian rap scene
    Jan17

    Alyona Alyona breathes new life into Ukrainian rap scene

    When Alyona Savranenko turned 12, hip-hop found her in a small rural village. Now Savranenko, a former kindergarten teacher, is the biggest rapper in Ukraine. …read more Source:: Public Radio...

    Giuliani aide links Devin Nunes to Trump’s Ukraine effort: ‘He knows who I am’
    Jan17

    Giuliani aide links Devin Nunes to Trump’s Ukraine effort: ‘He knows who I am’

    Rep. Devin Nunes on Wednesday publicly acknowledged for the first time that he spoke with Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani who allegedly helped carry out President Donald … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: Miami...

    Iran’s Clerics, Elected Politicians Maneuver Ahead of Parliamentary Polls
    Jan17

    Iran’s Clerics, Elected Politicians Maneuver Ahead of Parliamentary Polls

    The shooting down last week of a Ukrainian passenger over Tehran is at the center of rising tensions between Iran’s clerics and the country’s elected politicians.Amid public fury with the belated admission by authorities that a missile battery operator “mistakenly” shot down the aircraft, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has...

    Key things we learned from Lev Parnas’ revealing MSNBC interview
    Jan17

    Key things we learned from Lev Parnas’ revealing MSNBC interview

    Trump “knew exactly what was going on” in Ukraine, Parnas told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. …read more Source::...

    ‘It Was Never About Corruption’: Giuliani Associate Says Trump Was Involved in Ukraine Scandal
    Jan16

    ‘It Was Never About Corruption’: Giuliani Associate Says Trump Was Involved in Ukraine Scandal

    An associate of Rudy Giuliani said this week that “President Trump knew exactly what was going on” in reference to a secret campaign to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to announce investigations into Trump’s political rivals. In a Wednesday evening interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Lev Parnas, who was...

    Parnas Alleges White House Deal To Free Ukrainian Mobster In Exchange For Trump Legal Help
    Jan16

    Parnas Alleges White House Deal To Free Ukrainian Mobster In Exchange For Trump Legal Help

    Former Rudy Giuliani amigo Lev Parnas may have revealed a staggering scandal on Wednesday, with Ukrainian gas billionaire Dmytro Firtash at the center. The allegation is this: Trump and his legal team offered to have federal foreign bribery charges against Firtash dropped if the oligarch, described by federal prosecutors as an “upper-echelon”...

    State Dept Chided for Silence Over Alleged Threats to Envoy
    Jan16

    State Dept Chided for Silence Over Alleged Threats to Envoy

    Ukraine’s announcement of an investigation into alleged surveillance of the U.S. ambassador has come as welcome relief to many in America’s diplomatic corps. …read more Source:: U.S....

    Trump Allies Drag Watchdog for Pointing Out Trump Broke Law
    Jan16

    Trump Allies Drag Watchdog for Pointing Out Trump Broke Law

    Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesA federal at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...

    We Can’t Afford to Ignore Lev Parnas’s Explosive Claims
    Jan16

    We Can’t Afford to Ignore Lev Parnas’s Explosive Claims

    Irony is thriving in the Trump administration. Consider this: The president spent months, and ultimately was impeached for, badgering the Ukrainian government to announce a probe into the natural-gas company Burisma. Yet all it took was the release of some text messages by Lev Parnas, an accused criminal with a checkered past, for Ukraine to...