Section: Voice of America (USA)
Experts Say Impeachment Fallout Might Hurt Pompeo’s Potential Senate Run
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s frequent official trips to his home state of Kansas have fueled speculation he may be considering resigning to run for an open Senate seat in the midwestern state. But some political observers say Pompeo’s role in the withholding of U.S. military aid to Ukraine and the impeachment inquiry may have...
Trump, in 2020 Election Preview, Pushes Republican Candidates in Tuesday Voting
There are scattered key elections in the U.S. on Tuesday, with President Donald Trump campaigning for Republican candidates in hopes of shoring up his own political standing a year ahead of his re-election contest.Trump, with polls showing widening disapproval ratings from voters nationally and facing an impeachment inquiry in Washington, heads...
Testimony: US Former Ambassador to Ukraine Advised to Tweet Support for Trump
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch said she was told by a Trump administration official that she should tweet out support for President Donald Trump if she wanted to save her job, according to a transcript of her testimony to lawmakers made public Monday. Yovanovitch said that U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland...
Fake News? No Jobs? Prospective Journalists Soldier on
The Daily Orange isn’t daily anymore.The student-run newspaper that has covered Syracuse University since 1903, and trained generations of journalists, now prints three issues per week. Editor-in-chief Haley Robertson wonders where she’ll find advertisers, worries about firing friends, and searches for alumni donors who will pay to...
Trump: Written Answers from Whistleblower Unacceptable
U.S. President Donald Trump, faced with a mounting impeachment inquiry, said Monday that written answers are not good enough from the whistleblower who first disclosed that he had pressed Ukraine to pursue investigations of one of his chief 2020 Democratic political rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden.”He must be brought forward to...
White House: Trump’s Ukraine Actions Not Impeachable
The White House on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s bid to get Ukraine to investigate one of his chief 2020 Democratic political rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden, saying the request did not amount to an impeachable offense.”Nothing would lead to a high crime or misdemeanor,” one of Trump’s top aides,...
Mueller Documents: Manafort Pushed Ukraine Hack Theory
Newly released documents show a Trump campaign official told the FBI that during the 2016 presidential race, the campaign’s chairman, Paul Manafort, pushed the idea that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s servers. That unsubstantiated theory was advanced by President Donald Trump even after...
German President: ‘There Can be no Democracy Without America’
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, federal president of Germany, was in Boston at the end of October to conclude a yearlong diplomatic initiative Germany launched to strengthen ties with the United States.In remarks delivered at the re-opening of Goethe-Institut Boston on October 31, Steinmeier stressed the longstanding bond between the two countries and...
US Judge Orders State Department to Release More Ukraine Records
A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the State Department to make public certain “readouts or summaries” of the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart at the center of a congressional impeachment investigation. The order by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington gave the State...
AP-NORC Poll: Many Support Impeachment Inquiry But It’s Not Top Priority
More Americans approve of the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump than disapprove of it, though only about a third say the inquiry should be a top priority for Congress, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That solid, if measured, support serves as a warning sign for...
