Section: The Boston Globe (USA)
Watchdog: White House violated law in freezing Ukraine aid
The federal government’s watchdog agency says the a White House office violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine aid …read more Source:: The Boston...
Giuliani: Trump ‘relied on’ his claims about US diplomat
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani says he provided the president with information that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was impeding investigations that could benefit Trump politically …read more Source:: The Boston...
A reason Democrats won’t wait: Trump cases tied up in court
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley told House Democrats that they are rushing the impeachment of President Donald Trump and that they instead could be enlisting the courts to try to help procure the testimony of key figures in Trump’s effort to get Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden …read more Source:: The Boston...
The Latest: GOP report calls Trump actions ‘prudent’
A Republican report designed to counter Democrats’ impeachment case will argue that President Donald Trump’s hesitation to meet with Ukraine’s president and provide military aid to the country was “entirely prudent.” …read more Source:: The Boston...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Ukraine defense collides with facts
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s defense of his Ukraine actions collides with known facts and witness testimony on multiple fronts as the inquiry intensifies …read more Source:: The Boston...
The Latest: Trump says he doesn’t expect to be impeached
Trump says he doesn’t expect to be impeached, claiming Democrats have ‘absolutely nothing’ incriminating, despite days of public testimony by witnesses who said Trump withheld aid from Ukraine to press the country to investigate his political rivals …read more Source:: The Boston...
Trump doubles down on debunked Ukraine conspiracy theory
President Donald Trump is still promoting a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, a day after a former White House security adviser called it a ‘fictional narrative’ …read more Source:: The Boston...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump, GOP claims on Ukraine corruption
AP FACT CHECK: President Trump and his GOP allies are pressing questionable defenses that he withheld military aid to Ukraine out of concern over the country’s corruption and that House impeachment hearings violate due process rights …read more Source:: The Boston...
Key witnesses will cap intense week in impeachment inquiry
House impeachment investigators will hear from two key witnesses who grew alarmed by how President Donald Trump and others in his orbit were conducting foreign policy in Ukraine …read more Source:: The Boston...
Defense official says Ukraine asked about military aid hold
A Defense Department official is testifying that the Ukrainian embassy was asking questions of her staff about a hold on military aid as far back as July 25 …read more Source:: The Boston...