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    Kyiv Plans To Boost Defense Spending To $9 Billion As Peace Talks Remain Elusive
    Nov06

    Kyiv Plans To Boost Defense Spending To $9 Billion As Peace Talks Remain Elusive

    Ukraine plans to increase annual spending on defense and security next year by 16 percent to more than $9 billion even as Kyiv gradually moves forward to securing talks to end the Donbas conflict in the eastern part of the country. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    What You Need to Know: Top diplomat revises his testimony
    Nov06

    What You Need to Know: Top diplomat revises his testimony

    WASHINGTON (AP) – For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has started a presidential impeachment inquiry. House committees are trying to determine whether President Donald Trump violated his oath of office by asking Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden and his family and to … …read more...

    Five things to know about the Sondland, Volker transcripts
    Nov06

    Five things to know about the Sondland, Volker transcripts

    House Democrats released transcripts from depositions with two key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker…. …read more Source:: The...

    New testimony, transcripts, paint fuller picture of quid pro quo
    Nov06

    New testimony, transcripts, paint fuller picture of quid pro quo

    Transcripts of more than 350 pages each from House interviews with US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland and the Trump Administration’s special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker were made public, as was new testimony from Sondland included “refreshed” recollections. …read more Source:: Public Radio...

    Giuliani met Ukraine presidential candidate in 2018 to get Biden dirt, says ex-prosecutor
    Nov06

    Giuliani met Ukraine presidential candidate in 2018 to get Biden dirt, says ex-prosecutor

    A claim by an ex-Ukrainian prosecutor also deepens questions about the role of ex-Rep. Bob Livingston in the Trump camp’s push to find dirt on the Bidens. …read more Source::...

    Ukraine Envoy’s Texts Show Drama Behind Trump’s Pressure Campaign
    Nov06

    Ukraine Envoy’s Texts Show Drama Behind Trump’s Pressure Campaign

    Lordy, there are texts. On Tuesday, the impeachment inquiry released the “full production of text messages” provided by Kurt Volker, the former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine and a key player in Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine into providing political dirt. House Democrats released a few crucial snippets of these text messages last month,...

    Graham Says He Won’t Read Transcripts Because It’s All ‘A Bunch Of B.S.’
    Nov06

    Graham Says He Won’t Read Transcripts Because It’s All ‘A Bunch Of B.S.’

    Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters Tuesday that he doesn’t plan on reading the deposition transcripts of the ongoing impeachment inquiry. According to CBS News, Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill that he’s “written the whole process off” and that he thinks “this is a bunch of B.S.” Graham’s latest...

    Sondland updates impeachment testimony, describing Ukraine quid pro quo
    Nov06

    Sondland updates impeachment testimony, describing Ukraine quid pro quo

    …read more Source:: Pittsburgh...

    Report: Newly released memos reveal Ukrainian gas firm pressured Obama admin to end corruption investigation linked to Bidens
    Nov06

    Report: Newly released memos reveal Ukrainian gas firm pressured Obama admin to end corruption investigation linked to Bidens

    Newly released memos reveal that Burisma Holdings — the Ukrainian natural gas firm that employed Hunter Biden as a board member — contacted the Obama State Department on multiple occasions during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, seeking to put an end to an investigation into the gas firm’s alleged corruption. On Tuesday’s radio...

    GOP chairman: Hearing on delayed Ukraine aid should wait until after House inquiry wraps
    Nov06

    GOP chairman: Hearing on delayed Ukraine aid should wait until after House inquiry wraps

    Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho) told the top Democrat on his panel that any hearings into the delayed Ukraine aid at the center of the impeachment inquiry against President Trump should wai… …read more Source:: The...