Trump impeachment trial roiled by question of calling John Bolton or other witnesses
U.S. President Donald Trump's impeachment trial is shifting to questions from senators, a pivotal juncture because Republicans lack the votes to block witnesses and face a potential setback in their hope of ending the trial with a quick acquittal. After Trump's defense team rested Tuesday ...
U.S. State Department bars NPR reporter from Mike Pompeo trip after testy interview
A correspondent for National Public Radio in the United States has been excluded from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's plane for a trip this week, after a tense exchange between him and another NPR journalist. The association that represents correspondents covering the State Department reported ...
John Bolton book pressuring GOP to allow Senate witnesses
Pressure is increasing on senators to call John Bolton to testify at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial after the revelation that a draft of a book by Trump's former national security adviser undercuts a key defense argument — that Trump never tied withholding military ...
Ex-U.S. national security chief John Bolton says Trump tied Ukraine funds to Biden probe: report
U.S. President Donald Trump told a then-top aide in August he wanted to freeze security aid to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Trump's statement was described in an ...
Top U.S. diplomat Mike Pompeo accuses reporter of 'shameful' lying after testy interview
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused a National Public Radio reporter of lying to him and violating "the basic rules of journalism and decency" after she said Pompeo repeatedly cursed at her following a testy interview. NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly said ...
Radio reporter says U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cursed at her after testy interview
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cursed at a National Public Radio reporter and repeatedly "used the F-word" in a shouted diatribe after she questioned him about Ukraine and the ousted American ambassador to Kiev in an interview on Friday, the reporter said. Mary Louise ...
Far from Senate, candidate Joe Biden largely avoids impeachment politics
As the Senate begins President Donald Trump's impeachment trial on Capitol Hill, Democrat Joe Biden is 1,000 miles away in Iowa, trying to capitalize on the circumstances without allowing the proceedings to overshadow the closing case he's making ahead of the first 2020 votes. "The ...
Iran acknowledges it fired two missiles at Ukrainian passenger jet
Iran acknowledged Tuesday that its armed forces fired two Russian anti-aircraft missiles at a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed after taking off from Tehran's main airport earlier this month, killing all 176 people on board. The new preliminary report by Iran's Civil Aviation Organization however stopped ...
Trump heading to Switzerland as impeachment trial reconvenes
When President Donald Trump's historic impeachment trial is called to order in the Senate this week, he won't be watching from inside the chamber or on television from the White House. He'll be thousands of miles away at the Davos economic forum in the Swiss ...
Monument to Holocaust victims vandalized in Ukraine ahead of remembrance day
Vandals have damaged a monument to the victims of the Holocaust in Ukraine a week before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27. Joel Lion, the Israeli ambassador in Ukraine, tweeted a picture Monday of the monument in Kryvyi Rih, a city in eastern Ukraine, ...
As trial nears, Trump lawyers call impeachment case 'flimsy'
President Donald Trump's legal team asserted Monday that he did "absolutely nothing wrong," calling the impeachment case against him "flimsy" and a "dangerous perversion of the Constitution." The lawyers decried the impeachment process as rigged and insisted that abuse of power was not a ...
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff accuses NSA and CIA of withholding documents on Ukraine
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing U.S. intelligence agencies of withholding documents from Congress on Ukraine that could be significant to President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. "They appear to be succumbing to pressure from the administration," Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday on ...
