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    Fox Host Rails Against Giuliani For Being An ‘Unethical Disaster’
    Dec02

    Fox Host Rails Against Giuliani For Being An ‘Unethical Disaster’

    Fox News host Steve Hilton urged President Trump to fire Rudy Giuliani in light of a New York Times report last week that reported that Giuliani came close to securing a lucrative deal to represent Ukraine while searching for dirt on the President’s political rivals. “It turns out that the former mayor’s own personal business...

    Putin and Xi Oversee Launch of Landmark Russian Gas Pipeline to China
    Dec02

    Putin and Xi Oversee Launch of Landmark Russian Gas Pipeline to China

    Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday oversaw the launch of a landmark pipeline that will transport natural gas from Siberia to northeast China, an economic and political boost to ties between Moscow and Beijing.The start of gas flows via the Power of Siberia pipeline reflects Moscow’s attempts to...

    Ukraine's Zelensky: I never talked to Trump about 'position of a quid pro quo'
    Dec02

    Ukraine's Zelensky: I never talked to Trump about 'position of a quid pro quo'

    Ukraine’s president says in a new interview that he never discussed a “quid pro quo” with President Trump, but criticized any blocking of U.S. security aid for his country at a time when it is at war with Russia.”I never talked to the president from… …read more Source:: The...

    Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, says U.S. shouldn’t block aid for a ‘strategic partner’
    Dec02

    Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, says U.S. shouldn’t block aid for a ‘strategic partner’

    The president of Ukraine is saying that the U.S. shouldn’t block its aid as an ally, but he never spoke with President Trump about a “quid pro quo” deal to conduct investigations. “We’re at war. If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us,” Ukrainian President …...

    Ukraine Officials Linked To Giuliani Pressure Campaign Are Getting The Boot Over Corruption
    Dec02

    Ukraine Officials Linked To Giuliani Pressure Campaign Are Getting The Boot Over Corruption

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is taking his anti-corruption, pro-reform agenda seriously, with plans to boot more than 500 Ukrainian prosecutors from the governmental payroll by the end of the month. And some of those prosecutors are directly tied to to President Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and his pressure campaign to get Ukraine to...

    Ukraine to fire hundreds of prosecutors by year's end, including Giuliani-linked official: report
    Dec02

    Ukraine to fire hundreds of prosecutors by year's end, including Giuliani-linked official: report

    More than 500 federal prosecutors will reportedly be fired before the end of the month after a government review that ensnared a key ally of President Trump’s person attorney, Rudy Giuliani.The Washington Post reported Monday that … …read more Source:: The...

    House Democrats Need a Better Subpoena Strategy
    Dec02

    House Democrats Need a Better Subpoena Strategy

    Last week marked a low point in Donald Trump’s quest for presidential superpowers. On Monday, a federal judge in the District of Columbia ruled that former White House counsel Don McGahn does not have absolute immunity from having to testify before the House Judiciary Committee regarding misconduct by Trump and associates in the lead-up to...

    Will John Roberts Constrain Trump?
    Dec02

    Will John Roberts Constrain Trump?

    The final weeks of November may be remembered as the moment when Donald Trump crushed the last vestiges of resistance to him in the Republican Party. The sole remaining question is whether that conquest extends to the Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court—especially the chief justice, John Roberts.A stark confluence of events these...

    ‘I Don’t Trust Anyone At All.’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Speaks Out on Trump, Putin and a Divided Europe
    Dec02

    ‘I Don’t Trust Anyone At All.’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Speaks Out on Trump, Putin and a Divided Europe

    Hardly six months into his tenure as the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has already learned to temper his expectations. He does not expect his first round of peace talks with Russia, which are scheduled to take place in Paris on Dec. 9, to end the war that has been raging along their border for the past five years. Nor does he expect...

    Sen. John Kennedy says both Ukraine and Russia interfered in the 2016 election
    Dec02

    Sen. John Kennedy says both Ukraine and Russia interfered in the 2016 election

    …read more Source:: Pittsburgh...