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    William Taylor, Top Diplomat in Ukraine and Key Impeachment Witness, Is Stepping Down
    Dec17

    William Taylor, Top Diplomat in Ukraine and Key Impeachment Witness, Is Stepping Down

    A Vietnam veteran with decades of State Department experience, William B. Taylor Jr. sharply objected to what he saw as the Trump administration’s shadow foreign policy in Ukraine. …read more Source:: The New York...

    Associate Of Rudy Giuliani Received $1-Million Payment From Ukraine Oligarch, Says U.S. Prosecutor
    Dec17

    Associate Of Rudy Giuliani Received $1-Million Payment From Ukraine Oligarch, Says U.S. Prosecutor

    U.S. prosecutors said in court on December 17 that Lev Parnas, an associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, received a $1-million payment from a lawyer for Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Despite $1 Million From Oligarch Firtash, Judge Allows Parnas To Stay Free
    Dec17

    Despite $1 Million From Oligarch Firtash, Judge Allows Parnas To Stay Free

    NEW YORK — A Swiss lawyer for Ukrainian billionaire gas middleman Dmytro Firtash wired $1 million to Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas’s wife in September 2019, prosecutors and an attorney for Parnas said on Tuesday. The revelation came in a hearing where a Manhattan federal judge denied a request from the government to revoke...

    Senator Concerned Over Reports Top U.S. Envoy To Ukraine To Be Recalled Early
    Dec17

    Senator Concerned Over Reports Top U.S. Envoy To Ukraine To Be Recalled Early

    A top U.S. senator said he is concerned over reports that the Trump administration plans to recall its top diplomat from Ukraine after he gave critical testimony during the impeachment hearing. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    McConnell Rejects Schumer’s Bid for More Testimony at Trump Impeachment Trial
    Dec17

    McConnell Rejects Schumer’s Bid for More Testimony at Trump Impeachment Trial

    U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday rejected Democratic leader Chuck Schumer’s bid to have key aides to President Donald Trump testify at a Trump impeachment trial in January.McConnell called the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives’ effort to impeach Trump, likely culminating in a Wednesday vote against the...

    Report: Bill Taylor To Step Down As Acting Ukraine Ambassador At The End Of The Year
    Dec17

    Report: Bill Taylor To Step Down As Acting Ukraine Ambassador At The End Of The Year

    Acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor will reportedly soon leave his post at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev. Unnamed current and former officials told NBC News on Tuesday that Taylor is expected to do so on Jan. 2, roughly six months after he began filling in for Marie Yovanovitch, who was ousted in May. Politico reported on Monday that the Trump...

    Father of Hunter Biden Says No One Wants Their Kids to Grow Up to Be Like President Trump
    Dec17

    Father of Hunter Biden Says No One Wants Their Kids to Grow Up to Be Like President Trump

    Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Monday said nobody wants their children to grow up like President Donald Trump. As his son Hunter Biden faces allegations of drug abuse, soliciting prostitutes, and participating in an influence peddling scheme at a Ukrainian gas company, the former vice president assailed Trump’s character...

    Giuliani boasts, then backtracks on some details of engineering Ukrainian ambassador’s ouster
    Dec17

    Giuliani boasts, then backtracks on some details of engineering Ukrainian ambassador’s ouster

    “She was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody,” Giuliani told The New Yorker of the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. …read more Source::...

    Rick Gates Sentenced To 45 Days In Jail, Three Years Probation
    Dec17

    Rick Gates Sentenced To 45 Days In Jail, Three Years Probation

    Paul Manafort associate Rick Gates was sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation and 45 days in jail, which he will be allowed to serve on weekends. He was also ordered to pay a $20,000 fine. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson noted that, in weighing the sentence, she also had to consider the signal it would send to others who committed...

    GOP lawmaker: ‘No Intel people on our side’ have corroborated claims of Ukrainian 2016 interference
    Dec17

    GOP lawmaker: ‘No Intel people on our side’ have corroborated claims of Ukrainian 2016 interference

    Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) countered the Republican argument that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election Tuesday, saying “no Intel people on our side” have corroborated that narrative.Rooney told CNN that … …read more Source:: The...