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    Trump Bearhugs Rudy After Latest Ukraine Trip: He’s Doing This ‘Out Of Love’
    Dec17

    Trump Bearhugs Rudy After Latest Ukraine Trip: He’s Doing This ‘Out Of Love’

    President Trump heaped praise on his attorney Monday when asked how much Rudy Giuliani has shared with him about the conspiracies he’s peddling in Ukraine. The President also admitted that he’s at least seen some of the information that Giuliani has been gathering in Ukraine as part of his ongoing scheme to pressure the country to...

    What Would John Bolton Say About Trump’s Ukraine Policy?
    Dec17

    What Would John Bolton Say About Trump’s Ukraine Policy?

    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) wants four current and former administration officials to testify during Donald Trump’s impeachment trial next month. One of them is John Bolton, the former national security adviser, whose name is mentioned 129 times in the House Judiciary Committee’s report charging the president with...

    Quinnipiac Poll: Trump approval rating hits high of 43%; More than half say he was pursuing his own personal interests in Ukraine
    Dec17

    Quinnipiac Poll: Trump approval rating hits high of 43%; More than half say he was pursuing his own personal interests in Ukraine

    HAMDEN — President Trump scored the highest approval rating of his presidency in a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, Pollsters said President Donald Trump matched his best job approval rating ever, as 43 percent of registered voters say they approve of the job he is doing, while 52 percent disapprove. In a statement, officials said,...

    Under Trump, the U.S. Has Become a Leading Source of Global Instability
    Dec16

    Under Trump, the U.S. Has Become a Leading Source of Global Instability

    The end of the year brings myriad rankings: the best books, movies, and so on. In Washington, D.C., the lists tend to be of a more … sobering variety.For years, the Council on Foreign Relations has asked hundreds of U.S. government officials and foreign-policy experts to rate the potential security crises that could most threaten the United...

    Former FBI, CIA Director Takes Aim At ‘Longtime Friends’ Barr And Giuliani
    Dec16

    Former FBI, CIA Director Takes Aim At ‘Longtime Friends’ Barr And Giuliani

    The former FBI and CIA director took aim on Monday at President Donald Trump and two old friends — Attorney General Bill Barr and Rudy Giuliani. William Webster led the FBI for nine years and the CIA for four, serving under presidents Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. He’s the only person to hold both jobs. Since 2005, he’s...

    Giuliani Pal Parnas Asks Judge To Loosen Bail Conditions
    Dec16

    Giuliani Pal Parnas Asks Judge To Loosen Bail Conditions

    Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas wants a federal judge to ignore prosecutors’ claims that he lied to a pretrial services officer and concealed his finances and to instead loosen his conditions of release, according to a Monday bail memo. Parnas argued in the filing that a misunderstanding lead Manhattan federal prosecutors to demand his...

    Trump Spars with Democrats as Impeachment Votes Nears
    Dec16

    Trump Spars with Democrats as Impeachment Votes Nears

    U.S. President Donald Trump, facing impeachment this week, sparred Monday with House Democrats who accused him of “multiple federal crimes” in the abuse of the presidency.”The Impeachment Hoax is the greatest con job in the history of American politics!” Trump contended on Twitter. “The Fake News Media, and their...

    Trump Spars with Democrats as His Impeachment Nears
    Dec16

    Trump Spars with Democrats as His Impeachment Nears

    U.S. President Donald Trump, facing impeachment this week, sparred Monday with House Democrats who accused him of “multiple federal crimes” in the abuse of the presidency.”The Impeachment Hoax is the greatest con job in the history of American politics!” Trump contended on Twitter. “The Fake News Media, and their...

    Impeachment Is Incredibly Popular
    Dec16

    Impeachment Is Incredibly Popular

    The cynical read on the impeachment of President Trump is that it hasn’t changed anything: Here we are, weeks into the process and on the eve of a House floor vote, and there’s scant movement in public and elite opinion to show for it. Notwithstanding the mountain of new evidence uncovered by the House Intelligence Committee, the...

    The Dead End of the Normandy Format
    Dec16

    The Dead End of the Normandy Format

    On December 9, Ukraine’s new President Volodomyr Zelensky met face to face in Paris with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He retained his dignity and ceded nothing—quite an accomplishment, given the pressures and competing interests bearing down on him and his hapless and struggling nation. After long meetings, the perpetrator and the...