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    Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine to testify in Day 2 of public hearings
    Nov15

    Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine to testify in Day 2 of public hearings

    Day 2 of the public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry begin Friday with the testimony of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. President Trump removed her in May and two months later, speaking to Ukraine’s president, he described her as “bad news” and warned she was “going to go through some...

    Key Moments From Yovanovitch’s Testimony On Smear Campaign That Forced Her Out
    Nov15

    Key Moments From Yovanovitch’s Testimony On Smear Campaign That Forced Her Out

    Former Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch took the stand Friday to tell the House Intelligence Committee about being shoved out of her posting after Rudy Giuliani and his cronies concocted a successful smear campaign against her. In a compelling and personal account, she expressed how it felt to lose her job and the confidence of the...

    Yovanovitch Details How She Learned Of Giuliani’s Indicted Buds
    Nov15

    Yovanovitch Details How She Learned Of Giuliani’s Indicted Buds

    The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv first began to hear of the campaign against Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in November 2018, the ousted diplomat said on Friday. Yovanovitch told the House Intelligence Committee that she learned of “rumors from Ukrainians” about Rudy Giuliani’s campaign to have her removed around November and December, but that “it...

    Ukraine feels abandoned amid US impeachment drama
    Nov15

    Ukraine feels abandoned amid US impeachment drama

    Ukraine sees US support as vital but feels increasingly alone and vulnerable amid US impeachment drama …read more Source:: ABC...

    Rough transcript of first Trump-Zelenskiy call released
    Nov15

    Rough transcript of first Trump-Zelenskiy call released

    WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Friday released the summary transcript of his April congratulatory call with Ukraine’s president-elect, the latest salvo in the White House effort to blunt Democratic allegations that Trump abused his power by pressuring a foreign leader to get involved in U.S. politics. The new …...

    Fired Ukraine ambassador calls out ‘crisis’ in US diplomacy
    Nov15

    Fired Ukraine ambassador calls out ‘crisis’ in US diplomacy

    WASHINGTON (AP) – The fired U.S. ambassador to Ukraine sounded an alarm Friday about the denigration of American diplomacy and the hollowing out of the State Department under President Donald Trump as she recounted how she became an early casualty of the behind-the-scenes negotiations that led to the impeachment inquiry. … …read...

    Impeachment: Ex-diplomat Marie Yovanovitch ‘shocked’ at Trump’s Ukraine call
    Nov15

    Impeachment: Ex-diplomat Marie Yovanovitch ‘shocked’ at Trump’s Ukraine call

    A dramatic moment occurred during the first part of Friday’s public impeachment hearing, when House investigators read a new tweet from President Donald Trump and posed it to his former ambassador to Ukraine. …read more Source:: United Press...

    Trump Impeachment Not Justified by Evidence and Testimony Made Public So Far
    Nov15

    Trump Impeachment Not Justified by Evidence and Testimony Made Public So Far

    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., hasn’t yet produced most of his witnesses in the public impeachment hearings regarding President Donald Trump. But if the State Department’s George Kent and acting Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor are representative of the testimony Democrats are relying on, future...

    Ukraine Detains Top Islamic State Commander
    Nov15

    Ukraine Detains Top Islamic State Commander

    Ukraine’s main security agency says it has arrested a key figure in the Islamic State (IS) extremist group. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Trump himself is clearly not satisfied with only one article of impeachment’
    Nov15

    Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Trump himself is clearly not satisfied with only one article of impeachment’

    Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) didn’t hold back on Friday, taking a swipe at President Trump on Twitter after he tweeted about former U.S Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and her career’s work as a diplomati… …read more Source:: The...