Section: Voice of America (USA)
Trump Seeks to Rally Supporters in Texas
U.S. President Donald Trump was in Texas on Thursday for a campaign rally in Dallas to drum up support from his base in a state that until recently could be counted on to vote Republican but might be shaping up to become a battleground. Trump arrived in Texas as news broke about the cease-fire agreement reached by the United States and Turkey,...
2 Plead Not Guilty of Conspiring With Giuliani Associates
Two businessmen pleaded not guilty Thursday of conspiring with associates of Rudy Giuliani to make illegal campaign contributions, as a prosecutor said evidence includes data from over 50 bank accounts and information gathered through 10 search warrants. David Correia and Andrey Kukushkin are among four men charged with using straw donors to make...
Energy Secretary Perry Tells Trump He Plans on Resigning
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has told President Donald Trump he will step down, a day before a deadline set by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives for him to turn over documents in the impeachment probe, according to a source familiar with the matter.The exact date Perry would step down was not immediately known.Perry, who was the...
White House: Next G-7 Summit to Be Held at a Trump Golf Resort
The White House said Thursday it has chosen President Donald Trump’s golf resort in Miami as the site for next year’s Group of Seven summit.The announcement comes at the same time that the president has accused Joe Biden’s family of profiting from public office because of Hunter Biden’s business activities in Ukraine when...
US Envoy: Trump Demanded Diplomats Work with His Attorney on Ukraine
Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, told House impeachment investigators on Thursday that President Donald Trump ordered diplomats to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to get Ukraine to open investigations that would help Trump politically.”Mr. Giuliani emphasized that the president wanted a public...
Analysts: Russia Saying One Thing, Doing Another
Russian President Vladimir Putin is presenting himself as a peacemaker in the Middle East, the go-to arbiter to whom all regional leaders can turn to, secure in the knowledge that he considers incumbency a good thing and regime change bad, analysts say. When it comes to neighboring Ukraine, though, the picture is different.Russian-backed...
US Envoy: Trump Demanded Diplomats Work with His Attorney on Ukraine
Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, told House impeachment investigators on Thursday that President Donald Trump ordered diplomats to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to get Ukraine to open investigations that would help Trump politically.”Mr. Giuliani emphasized that the president wanted a public...
US Ambassador to EU Set to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry
After the State Department blocked him from appearing last week, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland is scheduled to appear Thursday before House lawmakers conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s relations with Ukraine.The House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees are holding the...
Trump: Democratic Challengers Are ‘Clowns’
U.S. President Donald Trump assailed his Democratic challengers on Wednesday after their latest debate, calling them “clowns” who would crash the economy.”You would think there is NO WAY that any of the Democrat Candidates that we witnessed last night could possibly become President of the United States,” Trump said on...
Ukraine’s Chief Prosecutor Could Be Pivotal in Trump, Biden Standoff
Ukraine’s new prosecutor general has only been in office since the end of August, but he will likely be central to the future course of any investigations relating to the impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump and the conduct of his possible rival, Joe Biden, in the 2020 presidential election. Democrats say Trump tried...
