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    Separatists’ Prison Sentence For Ukrainian Journalist Aseyev Sparks Outrage
    Oct23

    Separatists’ Prison Sentence For Ukrainian Journalist Aseyev Sparks Outrage

    Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have sentenced journalist Stanislav Aseyev, an RFE/RL contributor, to 15 years in prison on charges of espionage. Aseyev has already been held since 2017, when he was captured while reporting on the separatist conflict. Rights defenders and press freedom groups are calling his imprisonment...

    Impeachment Just Became Inevitable
    Oct23

    Impeachment Just Became Inevitable

    Ambassador William Taylor’s testimony to House investigators on Tuesday didn’t answer every question about the Ukraine scandal, but it answered the big one: Will President Donald Trump be impeached?Impeachment is now effectively inevitable. Taylor’s testimony fleshed out the biggest open questions, including whether there was a...

    Pentagon official overseeing Ukraine testifies in impeachment inquiry
    Oct23

    Pentagon official overseeing Ukraine testifies in impeachment inquiry

    Cooper is expected to face questions about the Trump administration’s decision to temporarily withhold military assistance to Ukraine over the summer. …read more Source::...

    Quinnipiac Poll: Support for impeachment inquiety reaches 55 percent
    Oct23

    Quinnipiac Poll: Support for impeachment inquiety reaches 55 percent

    HAMDEN — Support for the impeachment inquiry charges against President Trump has reached its highest level, according to a new Quinnipiac Poll. The poll determined 55 percent of American voters support the inquiry, while 43 percent disapprove. Last week, 51 percent of voters approved of the inquiry, while 45 percent disapproved. In today’s...

    Watch Fox News Personalities Attempt To Explain Away Bill Taylor’s Testimony
    Oct23

    Watch Fox News Personalities Attempt To Explain Away Bill Taylor’s Testimony

    It seems Bill O’Reilly took the “No Spin Zone” with him when he departed Fox News. After the bombshell news that emerged from U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor’s testimony, the network’s hosts and personalities took their spin to a new level, peddling absurd conspiracies about the diplomat and declaring reports on his...

    Ukrainegate and Political Decay
    Oct23

    Ukrainegate and Political Decay

    Watching the Ukraine scandal unfold from Singapore, I feel like the hapless dental patient in an early George Carlin routine who, muzzled in the chair by his busily probing and poking dentist standing over him armed with sharp metal implements and wads of cotton, strains but fails to respond to the dentist’s insistent defense of Richard...

    A Symphony of Whistle-Blowers
    Oct23

    A Symphony of Whistle-Blowers

    “Where’s the Whistleblower?” President Donald Trump asked in a tweet this morning. The answer that Trump just as surely doesn’t want to hear, however, is this: It’s not just one whistle-blower anymore.The president now finds himself virtually surrounded by them, as one official after another treks to Capitol Hill to accuse Trump...

    Russian Forces Deploy at Syrian Border, Threaten Kurdish Fighters With Being ‘Streamrolled’ by Turkey
    Oct23

    Russian Forces Deploy at Syrian Border, Threaten Kurdish Fighters With Being ‘Streamrolled’ by Turkey

    (AKCAKALE, Turkey) — Russian military police began patrols on part of the Syrian border Wednesday, quickly moving to implement an accord with Turkey that divvies up control of northeastern Syria. The Kremlin told Kurdish fighters to pull back from the entire frontier or else face being “steamrolled” by Turkish forces. Turkish President Recep...

    When We Investigated Benghazi, We Longed for Evidence This Clear
    Oct23

    When We Investigated Benghazi, We Longed for Evidence This Clear

    For eight years, House Republicans searched for a “smoking gun” that could unravel the presidency of Barack Obama. They presided over hundreds of oversight hearings, issued more than 100 subpoenas, held the attorney general in contempt of Congress, and even formed a special select committee devoted exclusively to one investigation, on Benghazi....

    Defense official arrives for testimony in Trump impeachment inquiry
    Oct23

    Defense official arrives for testimony in Trump impeachment inquiry

    A top Pentagon official arrived at the Capitol Wednesday to provide closed-door testimony related to President Trump’s contacts with the Ukraine, the latest witness deposition as Democrats charge forward with their impeac… …read more Source:: The...