Month: October 2019

Dylan StablefordSenior WriterOctober 22, 2019 Leading Republicans rushed to defend President Trump’s controversial tweet Tuesday in which he portrayed himself as the victim of a “lynching” by House Democrats pursuing his impeachment. The comparison was denounced as offensive by Democrats, including Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif., two of the three African-Americans in the Senate. Some…

WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden apologized Tuesday night after a 1998 clip surfaced of him saying the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton could be seen as a “partisan lynching.”  Biden’s apology came the same day he said it was “abhorrent” and “despicable” that President Donald Trump used the term to refer to the impeachment inquiry being conducted…

Boris Johnson has entered talks with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over a new timetable to push his Brexit deal through the House of Commons. But there was no indication of a breakthrough from either side following the face-to-face talks in Mr Johnson’s Commons office on Wednesday morning. And there was no sign of a meeting…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost a Parliamentary vote on Tuesday to fast-track his Brexit proposal, all but ensuring that his government will fail to facilitate an exit from the European Union by October 31 as previously promised. Johnson, who has said he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than delay Brexit, has threatened…

LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom will ultimately leave the European Union on the terms of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal even though parliament has complicated the timing of the divorce, a senior Downing Street source said. “This ends with us leaving with the PM’s deal,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity,…

NEW YORK (AP) — The officer who was fired in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner is suing the New York Police Department and the police commissioner to be reinstated. Daniel Pantaleo’s lawyer, Stuart London, told the New York Post the lawsuit was filed on Wednesday and argued that his termination following an administrative…

WASHINGTON – Russia and Turkey agreed Tuesday to take joint control of a vital strip of territory along the Syria-Turkey border, a victory for Moscow as the U.S. military continued its withdrawal from Syria.  The pact between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, came shortly before a U.S.-brokered cease-fire – which had temporarily halted a Turkish attack…

Donald Trump has announced that the US will lift sanctions on Turkey, taking credit for a ceasefire deal that should end Ankara’s attack on Kurdish-led forces – at the price of ending the Kurds’ dream of local autonomy. The US president, who has come under withering criticism for abruptly withdrawing US troops – and paving…

BUDAPEST, Hungary — The annual Independence Day celebration at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest is usually a modest garden party, a chance for the ambassador to celebrate American freedom, democracy and the rule of law. This year, the ambassador, David B. Cornstein, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a blowout gala for 800 guests.…

President Trump knew in advance and approved of the plan for a contingent of Republican House members to disrupt the House impeachment inquiry Wednesday, according to Bloomberg News. About two dozen lawmakers stormed the secure hearing room Wednesday morning, disrupting the closed-door testimony of a Pentagon official. “If behind those doors they intend to overturn the…