Section: Voice of America (USA)
Impeachment Report Summary: Panels Find ‘Significant Misconduct’ by Trump
The House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry report is 300 pages long, but the report includes a single page executive summary that concisely sums up the Democrats’ case against President Donald Trump.The committee says Trump’s “scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national...
House Impeachment Inquiry Report Accuses Trump of Misconduct, Obstruction
U.S. lawmakers are formally accusing President Donald Trump of misconduct and obstruction, based on what they say is a months-long effort by the president “to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election.”The report, released Tuesday by the House Intelligence Committee—which is controlled by...
Joe Biden Sees Fundraising Improvement After Rough Summer
Joe Biden took in more than $15 million for his White House run over the past two months, a sum that shows the former vice president’s fundraising operation has rebounded slightly after a lackluster summer in which he trailed his leading rivals.Biden’s campaign would not say exactly how much he has raised since the end of September....
Jews Angered by Activists’ Use of Holocaust Victims’ Remains
Jewish groups expressed outrage on Tuesday at an oversized urn placed in front of the German parliament that those behind it claim contains Holocaust victims’ remains and is meant to highlight the dangers of far-right extremism. The International Auschwitz Committee condemned the action by the Center for Political Beauty, which unveiled the...
US House Impeachment Inquiry Picks Up Steam
After two weeks of public hearings on U.S. President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are moving closer to formally impeaching the president on yet-to-be determined charges.While a vote to impeach by the full House is not expected until before Christmas, the pace of the impeachment inquiry...
House Intelligence Committee Plans Tuesday Release of Impeachment Report
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee is expected to publicly release Tuesday a report on its findings and recommendations in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.Committee Chairman Adam Schiff told MSNBC late Monday that the panel was “putting the finishing touches” on the report. He also said the committee would vote...
Rosenstein Said He was ‘Horrified’ at How Comey was Fired
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told the FBI he was “angry, ashamed, horrified and embarrassed” at the way James Comey was fired as FBI director, according to records released Monday.Rosenstein was interviewed by FBI agents several weeks after Comey’s firing as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s...
Biden Sees Fundraising Improvement After Rough Summer
Joe Biden took in more than $15 million for his White House run over the past two months, a sum that shows the former vice president’s fundraising operation has rebounded slightly after a lackluster summer in which he trailed his leading rivals.Biden’s campaign would not say exactly how much he has raised since the end of September....
Trump Administration Quietly Releases Lebanon Military Aid
The Trump administration has quietly released more than $100 million in military assistance to Lebanon after months of unexplained delay that led some lawmakers to compare it to the aid for Ukraine at the center of the impeachment inquiry.The $105 million in Foreign Military Financing funds for the Lebanese Armed Forces was released just before...
Zelenskiy: Allies ‘Can’t Go Blocking’ Aid at Time of War
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview Monday that he didn’t speak with President Donald Trump “from the position of a quid pro quo” last summer. Zelenskiy says, “That’s not my thing. . I don’t want us to look like beggars.”Trump later claimed Zelenskiy had said Trump had done nothing wrong. But Zelenskiy...
