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President Donald Trump asked Australia for help discrediting Russia probe

1:19 pm October 1, 2019

Washington: President Donald Trump asked Australia to “assist” in discrediting a Russia investigation that has clouded his presidency, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison admitting Tuesday that he agreed to help. An Australian government spokesperson confirmed Trump asked Morrison to investigate issues raised in Robert Mueller’s probe — which concluded that Russia tried to swing the […]

Trump's counter to Democratic convention? Swing state trips

Trump allies in disarray as Democrats push impeachment

5:09 am September 30, 2019

WASHINGTON: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that he expects the whistleblower at the heart of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump to testify “very soon.” “All that needs to be done, at this point, is to make sure that the attorneys that represent the whistleblower get the clearances that they need to […]

Pelosi: Confederate symbols 'have to go' from Capitol, bases

Pelosi says public opinion shifting in support of impeachment inquiry

1:36 pm September 29, 2019

AUSTIN, Texas: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that public opinion is now on the side of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump following the release of new information about his conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Pelosi it Pelosi this week announced her support for an investigation after the surfacing of a […]

President Donald Trump blurs lines between personal lawyer and attorney general William Barr

Trump blurs lines between personal lawyer, attorney general

3:08 am September 29, 2019

WASHINGTON: As Washington plunges into impeachment, Attorney General William Barr finds himself engulfed in the political firestorm, facing questions about his role in President Donald Trump’s outreach to Ukraine and the administration’s attempts to keep a whistleblower complaint from Congress. Trump repeatedly told Ukraine’s president in a telephone call that Barr and Trump personal lawyer […]

Investigators search sex offender Epstein’s Paris flat

7:56 pm September 24, 2019

Paris: Investigators searched disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein’s luxury Paris apartment on Tuesday, advancing a French probe into allegations that the sex offender procured young women to abuse in France. Epstein was arrested in New York in July on multiple charges of trafficking underage girls for sex. He was found hanged in his New York […]