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The Israeli military said it intercepted four incoming rockets from Syria on Tuesday and explosions were heard shortly after that in Damascus, a week after another Israeli strike targeted a top Palestinian militant in the Syrian capital. There was no …
November 19, 2019Read More
(Bloomberg) — Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here.The outcome of Britain’s election next month poses a binary choice for the nation’s currency, according to the largest U.K. bank.“Nothing is pri…
November 19, 2019Read More
Two days after a mysterious, unannounced hospital visit, President Trump’s physician issued a late-night statement attributing it to “regular, primary preventative care.”
November 18, 2019Read More
Five men were charged in connection with a shooting at a game that left three people wounded.
November 18, 2019Read More
UPDATE: Pedestrian killed in Mercer County identified – ABC 36 News WTVQ
November 18, 2019Read More
The U.N. human rights office is calling on authorities in Hong Kong to do all they can to de-escalate a standoff between security forces and anti-government protesters holed up in a university. Colville told reporters in Geneva that most protesters ha…
November 18, 2019Read More
Many saw the slogan as tone-deaf or a failed attempt at cleverness. State officials said it was provocative by design.
November 18, 2019Read More
Chip SomodevillaThe U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told State Department officials and staffers in Kiev that Donald Trump didn’t “give a shit about Ukraine” and only cared about the country launching an investigation into 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. That’s according to a newly released transcript from the deposition of David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat based in Kiev who testified before House impeachment investigators last week. During the Nov. 15, closed-door hearing, Holmes told investigators that he accompanied Sondland and two other department staffers to a restaurant in Kiev where he asked the EU ambassador about President Trump’s thoughts on Ukraine.“In particular, I asked Ambassador Sondland if it was true that the President did not give a shit about Ukraine. Ambassador Sondland agreed that the President did not give a shit about Ukraine,” Holmes said. Holmes told House investigators he then pressed further asking, “why not, and Ambassador Sondland stated, the President only cares about, quote, unquote, ‘big stuff.’ Sondland replied that he meant, quote, unquote, ‘big stuff’ that benefits the President, like the, quote, unquote, ‘Biden investigation.’”Gordon Sondland Stepped In ‘and Things Went Really Off the Rails’For the past several weeks President Trump and other officials loyal to him have peddled the idea that the administration was attempting to correct wrongs with Ukraine policy—that it was trying to fight corruption in the country—when it dealt with the incoming administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky. But the comments from Sondland at the restaurant in Kiev point to President Trump’s real ambition: Getting President Zelensky to investigate the Bidens.Sondland is set to testify Wednesday in front of lawmakers about his work on Ukraine and will likely face a slew of questions about his communications with President Trump on the issue of a Biden investigation. Holmes is set to testify Thursday. Before the lunch in Kiev, Holmes said he attempted to join Sondland in a meeting with a top aide to Zelensky, Andri Yermak. Holmes said he had been asked to attend that meeting and take notes but that he was told by Yermak’s assistant that “Ambassador Sondland and Mr. Yenmak had insisted that the meeting be held one-on-one with no notetaker.”Holmes told House investigators that over a bottle of red wine he, Sondland and the other State staffers talked about business plans for the ambassador’s hotel business. Soon after, Sondland took out his phone and called President Trump to brief him on the meeting with Yermak, Holmes said. Holmes said he heard the conversation between Sondland and the president transpire.Sondland told Trump Zelensky “loves your ass,” Holmes testified.“I then heard President Trump ask, quote, ‘So he’s going to do the investigation?’ unquote. Ambassador Sondland replied that, ‘He’s going to do it,’” Holmes recalled.Later on in the summer, Holmes said the issue of engaging the president on Ukraine became increasingly difficult. He said that he and Sondland discussed ways to “frame the importance of Ukraine in ways that would appeal to the president and to try to move forward on the scheduling of a White House visit by President Zelensky.”That meeting never took place, but Trump did meet with Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
November 18, 2019Read More
The Wildcats look to bounce back after last week’s upset loss to Evansville and dropping from No. 1 to No. 9 in the AP poll.
November 18, 2019Read More
The former U.N. ambassador attacks the husband of a Trump aide for calling Rep. Elise Stefanik "lying trash." Conway bites back.
November 18, 2019Read More
Less than a week after its shocking loss to Evansville, Kentucky basketball narrowly avoided another upset in a win over Utah Valley.
November 18, 2019Read More
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