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By Eli Yokley Top Stories After telling reporters Thursday afternoon that President Donald Trump withheld U.S. military assistance from Ukraine partly to press the country to undertake investigations that could help him politically, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney issued a statement Thursday evening that “there was absolutely no quid pro quo.” Prior […]
By Eli Yokley Top Stories Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, who represented Baltimore since 1996, died of longstanding health problems early this morning. Cummings, 68, was chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, making him a key figure in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, but he had not participated in a roll call […]
By Eli Yokley Top Stories Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Sky News that he won’t meet with Vice President Mike Pence, who was set to travel to Turkey today with an American delegation to make the case for a cease-fire in the conflict in northeast Syria, and that he’d speak only to President Donald […]
By Eli Yokley Top Stories Former National Security Advisor John Bolton was so alarmed by President Donald Trump’s effort to lean on Ukraine for political help that he told Fiona Hill, the senior director for European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council, to alert White House lawyers, according to sources’ accounts of Hill’s […]
By Eli Yokley Top Stories President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel in northern Syria as Kurdish forces — a longtime American ally — announced a deal with Syria’s government that clears the way for President Bashar al-Assad’s forces to return to the region to try to push out Turkish forces. Trump […]
By Eli Yokley Week in Review Ukraine and the impeachment inquiry The White House announced in a letter to House Democratic leaders that it will not cooperate with their impeachment inquiry, arguing that it violates precedent and denies President Donald Trump due process rights. Democrats made clear that Trump’s refusal to cooperate could be the […]
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