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U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun said on Wednesday the window was still open for Pyongyang to negotiate with the United States over its nuclear program, but it needed to seize the moment. In remarks to the Senate Foreign Rela…
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Ms. Pugh left office after an investigation raised questions over “Healthy Holly,” her children’s book series.
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United States Ambassador to the European Gordon Sondland apparently remembers everything but the Bidens.During his public impeachment testimony Wednesday, Sondland addressed previous private testimony from David Holmes, an official from the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, in which Holmes said he overheard Trump loudly ask Sondland over the phone in July at a restaurant in Kyiv if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “going to do the investigation.”In Sondland’s prepared opening statement, he said he remembered the phone call but didn’t find it significant at the time (Holmes did not feel the same way) and that he and Trump were primarily discussing A$AP Rocky and his legal troubles in Sweden. Sondland did say he considered most of Holmes’ recollection accurate and didn’t directly challenge any part of his testimony, but he was adamant that he at least doesn’t remember mentioning former Vice President Joe Biden or his son, Hunter, during or after the call with Trump. Holmes, on the other hand, testified that after the call Sondland told him that Trump doesn’t care about Ukraine except for “big stuff” like investigating the Bidens.During Wednesday’s questioning, Sondland said he doesn’t think he would have said something like that, though he couldn’t recall anything specifically refuting Holmes’ claims.> Holmes said Sondland specifically invoked Biden on July 26. > > Sondland says, “I have no recollection of discussing Vice President Biden or his son on that call or after the call ended.” https://t.co/vDdTz7eBym> > — Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 20, 2019Sondland said he “would have been more surprised if” Trump hadn’t mentioned investigations, but he claimed that at the time he was not operating under the assumption that the investigations were referring to the Bidens, which he is aware of now. Though some observers aren’t buying that excuse. > Sondland’s testimony that he did not understand Burisma meant framing the Bidens is not credible given his exchanges with Taylor. They make no sense otherwise. Taylor specifically says “help with a political campaign.” pic.twitter.com/2zBTCwEc7z> > — Adam Serwer (@AdamSerwer) November 20, 2019More stories from theweek.com Ken Starr on the Sondland testimony: ‘It’s over’ Putin says the Ukraine scandal has distracted the U.S. from Russian election meddling: ‘Thank God’ Sondland just obliterated Trump and put the entire White House in peril
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Wednesday’s hearing for Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, largely revolved around a key July 26 phone call with President Trump. The call is important for House impeachment investigators because it seemingly links Trump directly to attempts to pressure Ukraine into opening investigations into the Bidens. One member of the Ukrainian diplomat’s staff even claims to have overheard the president pushing Sondland for news about “the investigations” on the call, made in a Kyiv restaurant, and that Sondland confirmed that the Ukrainians were ready to “move forward.”But what came out last week was that the phone call between Sondland and Trump — which was already loud enough to be overheard in public — was additionally placed on an unsecure mobile phone. Speaking Wednesday, Sondland admitted another piece of shocking news: That Trump himself knew the conversation about sensitive national security issues was being made on the open line, and proceeded anyway.Sondland, who was considered a national security risk by former National Security Council aide Fiona Hill due to his penchant for placing calls on vulnerable lines, defended his practice before Congress. “We had sensitive conversations on unsecured lines all the time,” he told investigators, pointing out that “the president decides what’s classified and not — and he knew I was on an unsecured line.” Trump notably ran his 2016 presidential campaign on the assurance of securing national communications, frequently blasting his opponent, Hillary Clinton, over her use of an unsecure email server.The admission that the president himself was aware of the security risk, and fine with it, is also surprising in light of the fact that former officials told CNN last week that there was “a high probability that intelligence agencies from numerous foreign countries, including Russia, were listening in on the conversation.””Why a president is talking to an ambassador on a non-encrypted telephone is crazy for today’s age, and worse in public,” said former FBI official Todd Carroll.More stories from theweek.com Ken Starr on the Sondland testimony: ‘It’s over’ Putin says the Ukraine scandal has distracted the U.S. from Russian election meddling: ‘Thank God’ Sondland just obliterated Trump and put the entire White House in peril
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The U.S. government said on Wednesday it has begun issuing licenses for some companies to supply goods to China’s blacklisted telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. Companies began receiving notices of approval and “intent to deny” not…
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The quilt’s more than 50,000 panels will move to the National AIDS Memorial, while its archive of personal items will go to the Library of Congress.
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A parent wearing a headscarf on a school field trip has reignited debate. Some say the headscarf doesn’t fit in France’s secular society. Others say this conflates the veil with Islamist radicalism.
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“By God, my son did nothing wrong,” says Khazaal Salih. His son, Abbas, a medic, was killed while treating a wounded protester. More than 300 Iraqis have been killed during protests in recent weeks.
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Relatively few images have slipped through the government’s electronic filters, which appears to be blocking any communication between Iran and the outside world, while allowing internal traffic to continue.
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Saudi King Salman touted his country’s reforms in his annual address and stressed the importance of his government’s decision to publicly list shares of the state-run oil giant Aramco. The king’s son and heir, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has tou…
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