Month: January 2020

Iranian Presidency Office via AP Iran’s leadership has turned on its military over its response to the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 last week. While Iran initially insisted that the plane crashed because of technical issues, it later said its Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down the commercial plane down by mistake. President Hassan…

Washington (AFP) – New video footage has emerged showing two Iranian missiles tearing through the night sky and hitting a Ukrainian passenger plane, sending the aircraft down in flames and killing all 176 passengers and crew on board. The projectiles were fired 30 seconds apart and explain why the plane’s transponder was not working as…

WASHINGTON – The Senate trial of President Donald Trump is scheduled to begin at noon Thursday, when House lawmakers will read aloud the articles of impeachment accusing the president of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. After the articles are read, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will be summoned to preside at the trial…

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, announced an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump on 24 September. Over the next three months, Congress investigated an alleged plot by Trump to use the power of his office to solicit interference from Ukraine in the 2020 election. Related: Which other US presidents have been impeached? On 18 December, Democrats…

WASHINGTON — For a month, things moved slowly in the impeachment of President Trump, as the two articles approved against him by House Democrats seemed to languish in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  Then on Wednesday, things moved very quickly.  The day began with Pelosi, D-Calif., naming the impeachment managers who will prosecute the…

New evidence shows Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused and trafficked hundreds of young women and girls on his private Caribbean island as recently as 2018, significantly expanding the scope of his alleged conduct, a top law enforcement official said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. Epstein, a wealthy financier who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail…

En pleine promotion pour Café Society de Woddy Allen, Kristen Stewart a répondu aux questions indiscrètes du magazine Variety. Elle fait le point sur sa vie amoureuse. On l’a connue toute jeune, amoureuse d’un vampire adolescent devenu son compagnon à la ville après la scène. Cette idylle avec Robert Pattinson, Kristen Sewart a tout fait…

LANSING, Mich. – A state senator is under fire Wednesday after telling a female reporter she should stick around at the Capitol because a group of high school students from an all-boys school touring the building could “have a lot of fun” with her. Michigan State Sen. Peter Lucido, R-Shelby Township, made the comments outside the Senate…

Lev Parnas, a key player in President Trump’s efforts to obtain a Ukrainian investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, gave a bombshell interview to MSNBC Wednesday that undercut the president’s defense just hours before the Senate was scheduled to begin his impeachment trial. “It was all about Joe Biden, Hunter…

Suspect in killing of former Arkansas state senator now accused in murder-for-hire plot originally appeared on abcnews.go.com A bizarre twist has been uncovered in the case of a woman accused of killing her friend, Linda Collins-Smith, a former Arkansas state senator. Rebecca Lynn O’Donnell, 49, once an aide to Collins-Smith and an employee at the…