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    Foreign Minister: Ukraine Shuns US Political Battles
    Oct07

    Foreign Minister: Ukraine Shuns US Political Battles

    Ukraine doesn’t want to be dragged into U.S. political battles, the nation’s foreign minister said Monday.A July 25 phone call in which U.S. President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic candidate hoping to challenge Trump next year, has...

    New Whistleblower May Give House Democrats Fresh Information
    Oct07

    New Whistleblower May Give House Democrats Fresh Information

    House Democrats leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine may have fresh information to work with after a new whistleblower stepped forward with what the person’s lawyer said was firsthand knowledge of key events.With Congress out for another week and many Republicans reticent to speak out, a...

    Profit, not politics: What some Trump allies did in Ukraine
    Oct07

    Profit, not politics: What some Trump allies did in Ukraine

    People with ties to Trump and his administration were pursuing business deals in Ukraine, an AP investigation found. …read more Source::...

    GOP Can’t Seem To Get On Same Page On Trump’s Call For China To Probe Biden
    Oct07

    GOP Can’t Seem To Get On Same Page On Trump’s Call For China To Probe Biden

    Republicans are struggling to find a unified way to spin the fact that President Trump publicly called on China to probe former Vice President Joe Biden. The latest to contribute to the hodgepodge messaging: National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow. During a pool spray with reporters on Monday morning, Kudlow was asked if President Trump...

    Energy Secretary Rick Perry Says He’s Not Resigning
    Oct07

    Energy Secretary Rick Perry Says He’s Not Resigning

    Energy Secretary Rick Perry denied reports of his impending resignation on Monday. “I’m here, I’m serving,” Perry said, according to Reuters. “They’ve been writing the story for at least nine months now,” he continued. “One of these days they will probably get it right, but it’s not today, it’s not tomorrow,...

    How Trump’s Brazenness Allows Him to Get Away With It
    Oct07

    How Trump’s Brazenness Allows Him to Get Away With It

    Last Thursday, Donald Trump said something that, on its face, seemed inexplicably self-defeating. Already under attack for having asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, he publicly asked China to do the same. This time there was no whistleblower forcing Trump’s hand. Having already transgressed the once sacrosanct principle that foreign...

    What Authoritarians Mean by ‘Corruption’
    Oct07

    What Authoritarians Mean by ‘Corruption’

    What if the People’s Republic of China fulfilled Donald Trump’s wish and investigated the Bidens? Chinese President Xi Jinping certainly has the machinery to do the job. Upon assuming control of the Communist Party in 2012, he built a vast apparatus to root out corruption. His regime has investigated more than 1 million officials for...

    Ukraine shuns US political battles, FM says
    Oct07

    Ukraine shuns US political battles, FM says

    Ukraine doesn’t want to be dragged into U.S. political battles, the nation’s foreign minister said Monday. A July 25 phone call in which U.S. President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: The Bellingham...

    Ukraine shuns US political battles, FM says
    Oct07

    Ukraine shuns US political battles, FM says

    Ukraine’s foreign minister says the country doesn’t want to be dragged into the U.S. political battles …read more Source:: ABC...

    90 former national security officials praise whistleblower
    Oct07

    90 former national security officials praise whistleblower

    Ninety former US national security officials wrote a letter Sunday praising the anonymous whistleblower whose recent complaint about President Donald Trump’s communications with Ukraine touched off a firestorm, leading House Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry into Trump. “While the identity of the whistleblower is not publicly...