Black People Politics : 'Something is wrong' with presidential election, says civil rights leader Diane Nash

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Giuliani Associate Says He Gave Demand for Biden Inquiry to Ukrainians

Giuliani Associate Says He Gave Demand for Biden Inquiry to Ukrainians

Not long before the Ukrainian president was inaugurated in May, an associate of Rudy Giuliani's journeyed to Kyiv to deliver a warning to the country's new leadership, a lawyer for the associate said.The associate, Lev Parnas, told a representative of the incoming government that it had to announce

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Ben Protess, Andrew E. Kramer, Michael Rothfeld and William K. Rashbaum

 

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Trump impeachment: Memo reveals how Republicans will try to defend president

Trump impeachment: Memo reveals how Republicans will try to defend president

Republicans who sat in on closed-door impeachment hearings have reportedly drafted a memo with key talking points to defend Donald Trump as the proceedings are set to go public this week.The memo was penned by GOP staff on the three House committees spearheading an impeachment inquiry into the...

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Chris Riotta
The Independent

 

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U.S. Expands Mueller Election-Fraud Case Against 13 Russians

U.S. Expands Mueller Election-Fraud Case Against 13 Russians

(Bloomberg) -- American prosecutors expanded an election-fraud case against 13 Russians that was first brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, adding details to flesh out how the defendants allegedly defrauded the U.S. by interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential race.The superseding...

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Greg Farrell
Bloomberg

 

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Ukrainian energy company tied to Hunter Biden supported American think tank, paid for trips

Ukrainian energy company tied to Hunter Biden supported American think tank, paid for trips

Burisma gave more than $450,000 to the Atlantic Council, a prominent Washington think tank.

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Jon Ward
Senior Political Correspondent
Yahoo News

 

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Trump impeachment hearings: 5 key takeaways from the first day

Trump impeachment hearings: 5 key takeaways from the first day

The first day of public impeachment hearings resulted in new evidence supporting the Democrats’ case that President Trump leveraged U.S. aid to get Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.

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Christopher Wilson
Senior Writer
Yahoo News

 

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Rudy Giuliani 'jokes' he has 'insurance' on Trump if he gets thrown under the bus

Rudy Giuliani 'jokes' he has 'insurance' on Trump if he gets thrown under the bus

Rudy Giuliani has said – apparently in jest – he has “insurance” on Donald Trump, should the president and his aides decide to try and blame him for the mounting controversy over the administration’s dealings with Ukraine.A day after Democrats on Capitol Hill called their public witnesses to testify

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Andrew Buncombe
The Independent

 

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Zelensky planned to announce Trump’s ‘quo’ on my show. Here’s what happened

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...But I had not realized how much the ground had already begun to shift before our meeting. On Sept. 5, The Post published an editorial revealing that it had been “reliably told” that Trump was trying to force Zelensky to investigate Biden.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a welcoming ceremony at Riga Palace in Riga, Latvia, on Oct. 16. (Toms Kalnins/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

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Fareed Zakaria
Columnist

 

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REPORT: A SECOND STAFFER HEARD TRUMP LOUDLY DISCUSSING EXTORTING UKRAINE
Well this doesn’t bode well for someone hoping to avoid being impeached

Report: A Second Staffer Heard Trump Loudly Discussing Extorting Ukraine

Well this doesn’t bode well for someone hoping to avoid being impeached.

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... later identified by sources as David Holmes, overheard E.U. ambassador Gordon Sondland speaking to Donald Trump by phone about the investigations the president was pushing Ukraine to open into his political rivals. “In the presence of my staff at a restaurant, Ambassador Sondland called President Trump and told him of his meetings in Kiev,” Taylor said.

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3 things to watch for in Friday's Trump impeachment hearing

3 things to watch for in Friday's Trump impeachment hearing

Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, is the next witness in the House impeachment inquiry of President Trump.

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David Knowles
Editor
Yahoo News

 

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Trump says impeachment probe has been ‘very hard’ on family

Trump says impeachment probe has been ‘very hard’ on family

President Donald Trump said the impeachment probe has been “very hard” on his family, even as he tried to flex his political muscle to flip the governor’s mansion in deep-red Louisiana. Speaking in friendly territory in a state he carried in 2016 by 20 percentage points, Trump lashed out...

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ZEKE MILLER and MELINDA DESLATTE
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