Section: Voice of America (USA)
Parnas, Former Ukraine Fixer, Shows Up Outside Trump Trial
Lev Parnas, an indicted businessman who says he worked to pressure Ukraine to investigate one of President Donald Trump’s political rivals, created a chaotic sideshow Wednesday as he traveled to Washington for Trump’s impeachment trial.Trailed by TV cameras, photographers and a sign that read “FAIR TRIAL,” Parnas posed for...
US Issues Fresh Sanctions Over Ukraine’s Crimea -Treasury Website
The United States on Wednesday issued a fresh round of sanctions related to Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea, targeting eight individuals and one entity, according to a notice on the U.S. Department of Treasury’s website. Such sanctions block assets under United States control and prohibit U.S. individuals and...
GOP Squirms as Bolton Prepares to Dish on Trump White House
For much of the last 20 years, John Bolton was a conservative poster child, a Republican hawk whose worldview helped shape the GOP establishment’s approach to dicey foreign policy questions.Now, as President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser prepares to dish on his days in the White House, some old friends and colleagues...
Senators to Question Both Sides in Impeachment; McConnell Lacks Votes to Stop Witnesses
Members of the U.S. Senate will spend Wednesday asking their questions about the issues involved in the impeachment of President Donald Trump, after spending parts of six days listening to a group of lawmakers from the House of Representatives make a case for convicting the president and his lawyers arguing he did nothing wrong.Senate Republicans...
Trump Team Closes Impeachment Defense
Lawyers for US President Donald Trump closed their defense Tuesday, telling the 100 senators weighing his removal from office he did nothing wrong in his dealings with Ukraine. The first phase of the Senate impeachment trial comes to a close amid a fight over admitting new evidence and witnesses – including former National Security Advisor John...
Iranians’ Angry Response to Plane Crash Cover-Up Widens Split in State Media
After Iran finally admitted responsibility for downing a Ukrainian passenger jet this month, its domestic news coverage of the public backlash revealed a deepened divide within state media ranks.Iran’s giant state broadcaster made no apology for disseminating the false denials and found itself under severe criticism from smaller officially...
McConnell Concedes Lacking Votes to Stop Dems from Calling Witnesses, Republicans Say
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told fellow Republicans that he did not have the votes to stop Democrats from calling witnesses in the Trump impeachment trial.McConnell and the president’s defense team oppose calling witnesses, including former national security adviser John Bolton who claims in an upcoming book that Trump directly...
How Trump Will Try to Block Bolton’s Testimony in Senate Impeachment Trial
With the U.S. Senate increasingly likely to call former National Security Adviser John Bolton to testify in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Trump’s lawyers are almost certain to assert executive privilege to block his testimony.Bolton poses a serious threat to Trump’s defense in light of reports of Bolton’s...
Trump Praises Pompeo for Doing ‘Good Job on’ NPR Reporter
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his handling of a National Public Radio reporter who Pompeo shouted at, cursed, and called a liar after a contentious interview.”That reporter couldn’t have done too good a job on you yesterday,” Trump said to Pompeo, the chief U.S. diplomat,...
Criminal Record of Crimean Journalist Mykola Semena Officially Cleared
An RFE/RL contributor in Ukraine’s Russia-controlled Crimea region has received court papers officially confirming the termination of his probation and the expunging of his criminal record.A court in Crimea’s capital, Simferopol, on January 14 ruled to prematurely terminate the probation period and expunge the criminal record of...
