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Section: USA

    No Trust In Self, No Money For Defense
    Oct04

    No Trust In Self, No Money For Defense

    In the world of security and defense, Germany presents an enigma. How can a country that has been re-unified and fully sovereign for almost 30 years, a country possessing a fully globalized economy (the fourth-largest in the world), a country with a few heavy history lessons under its belt, be so completely absent strategically? Why is it that...

    Trump Says He Has Constitutional Obligation to Investigate Biden on Corruption
    Oct04

    Trump Says He Has Constitutional Obligation to Investigate Biden on Corruption

    Wayne Lee contributed to this report.WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump, in his latest remarks explaining his requests to foreign governments to investigate his political opponents, is asserting he has a constitutional duty to fight corruption.“This is not about politics. This is about corruption. If you look and you read our Constitution...

    GOP Sen.: US Official Told Me In August That Ukraine Aide Was Tied To Push For 2016 Probe
    Oct04

    GOP Sen.: US Official Told Me In August That Ukraine Aide Was Tied To Push For 2016 Probe

    Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Friday that in August, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union told the senator that military aide for Ukraine was linked To Trump’s push for Ukraine to investigate the origins of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, the Wall Street Journal reported. Johnson spoke to the ambassador, Gordon Sondland,...

    Ex-British Spy’s Obama State Department Contacts  Avoid Scrutiny
    Oct04

    Ex-British Spy’s Obama State Department Contacts Avoid Scrutiny

    Officials in the Obama State Department in 2016 actively worked with a British intelligence operative, Christopher Steele, to disseminate and investigate allegations against Donald Trump and his presidential campaign. That operation bears at least some similarity to a saga unfolding in the Trump State Department involving Rudy Giuliani, the Trump...

    White House Prepares Formal Objection to Impeachment Probe
    Oct04

    White House Prepares Formal Objection to Impeachment Probe

    President Donald Trump said Friday the White House is preparing a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally objecting to the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry without an official vote. It’s expected to say the administration won’t cooperate with the probe without that vote — but he also said he believes it will pass.Trump...

    How Republicans Learned to Tolerate Foreign Election Interference
    Oct04

    How Republicans Learned to Tolerate Foreign Election Interference

    When then-candidate Donald Trump urged the Russian government to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, in 2016, his own running mate Mike Pence turned on him, warning the Kremlin of “serious consequences” if Russian hackers had interfered in the election. The leader of Trump’s party in the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, advised...

    Calling Kyiv: Ukrainians Caught Up In Trump Impeachment Battle
    Oct04

    Calling Kyiv: Ukrainians Caught Up In Trump Impeachment Battle

    Ukraine has been thrust into a major U.S. domestic political battle, after President Donald Trump asked his counterpart in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. The request triggered an impeachment inquiry by Democrats in Washington. The controversy involves several powerful Ukrainians and...

    At Center Of Whirlwind, Can Ukraine Weather The Storm And Keep U.S. Support?
    Oct04

    At Center Of Whirlwind, Can Ukraine Weather The Storm And Keep U.S. Support?

    Ukraine’s status as a geopolitical “ground zero” has meant strong bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress. Will its perilous position at the eye of an American political storm damage that support, distract the State Department, and drive away U.S. businesses that have begun to give Ukraine another look? …read more Source:: Radio Free...

    Trouble Brewing In The Senate? Mitt Romney Calls Trump’s Behavior “Wrong And Appalling”
    Oct04

    Trouble Brewing In The Senate? Mitt Romney Calls Trump’s Behavior “Wrong And Appalling”

    Why is Mitt Romney publicly coming against President Trump? In recent days, Mitt Romney has become the unofficial leader of the anti-Trump faction among Republicans in the U.S. Senate, and it appears that he may be attempting to rally enough votes to get Trump voted out of office once the impeachment process moves out of the House. Does he...

    Booker calls on TV stations to not air Trump ad attacking Biden over Ukraine
    Oct04

    Booker calls on TV stations to not air Trump ad attacking Biden over Ukraine

    Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) presidential campaign is calling on TV stations not to air a reelection ad from President Trump that attacks former Vice President Joe Biden’s role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor, call… …read more Source:: The...