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The blazes in one state alone have consumed an area about eight times the size of Los Angeles, and other fires have erupted across Australia. Amid drought and dry months to come, it could get worse.
November 22, 2019Read More
Donald Trump has reprimanded his former Ukraine ambassador who testified in the impeachment inquiry for not hanging his picture in the embassy during an unrepentant Fox News interview. Calling into the broadcaster’s morning show, Fox & Friends, Mr Trump repeated claims which witnesses had dismissed as false during more than 40 minutes of largely one-way dialogue. Mr Trump singled out Marie Yovanovitch, the Ukraine ambassador who blamed a “smear” campaign pushed by the president’s allies for her removal from the post earlier this year, for renewed criticism. Despite Ms Yovanovitch’s instance in testimony last week that claims she was opposed to Mr Trump or worked against him were categorically false, the president echoed many of those allegations. “This ambassador that, you know, everybody says is so wonderful, she wouldn’t hang my picture in the embassy, okay”, Mr Trump said. “She’s in charge of the embassy. She wouldn’t hang it. It took like a year and a half or two years for her to get the picture up. Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, catagorical denied she had worked against Donald Trump before her removal Credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite “She said bad things about me, she wouldn’t defend me and I have the right to change an ambassador.” Mr Trump said Ms Yovanovitch, whose testimony had been greeted with applause and a standing ovation by members of the public in the room, was “not an angel”. “This was not a baby that we’re dealing with,” he said. Throughout the interview Mr Trump was similarly dismissive of criticism of his behaviour towards Ukraine that has followed new revelations from five days of public impeachment hearings. Mr Trump repeated the idea that Ukraine somehow meddled in the 2016 US election, despite one witness calling that a “fictional narrative” which was being pushed by Russia’s security services. The president once again suggested the Democratic National Committee’s email server, which had been hacked during the campaign, may be in Ukraine. Pushed for evidence to back up the claim, Mr Trump said “that’s what the word is”. Public impeachment hearings into Donald Trump took place in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building Credit: Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS He also defended the involvement of his personal attorney, the former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, in pursuing an investigation into Joe Biden, Mr Trump’s political rival, and the Ukraine election meddling claims. “Rudy Giuliani was one of the great crime fighters of all time,” Mr Trump said, insisting it was legitimate to try and uncover “corruption”. Mr Biden, the former US vice president and Democrat who Mr Trump could face in the 2020 election, has always denied any wrongdoing in his dealings with Ukraine while in office. Mr Trump also claimed he had saved Hong Kong from being destroyed by persuading Chinese President Xi Jinping to hold off on sending in troops to crush its pro-democracy movement. He said: “If it weren’t for me, Hong Kong would have been obliterated in 14 minutes.”
November 22, 2019Read More
Herbert Whalen, who worked with Clayton Morris selling investment properties in Indianapolis, was charged with defrauding clients.
November 22, 2019Read More
Get a team-by-team breakdown of the Kentucky’s Sixth Region, including key players and outlooks for the high school boys basketball season
November 22, 2019Read More
Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.
November 22, 2019Read More
Many of the existential questions gripping the Democratic Party center on one mysterious figure: the “moderate” voter.
November 22, 2019Read More
Not U.S. President Donald Trump, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was indicted Thursday on corruption charges. Netanyahu’s indictment on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust marks the culmination of three long-running corrup…
November 22, 2019Read More
Louisville native and rising hip-hop artist Jack Harlow dishes on his new album, “Confetti,” his current tour and coming home for two sold-out shows.
November 22, 2019Read More
Attorney General William P. Barr acknowledged his own initial suspicion that Jeffrey Epstein may have been murdered but said the evidence ultimately showed the financier hanged himself.
November 22, 2019Read More
A group of eighth graders found two unmarked cemetery plots where black inhabitants were buried. They placed a plaque on the graves this week to remember the families.
November 22, 2019Read More
Kentucky football is one win away from bowl eligibility. Here are three keys for the Wildcats vs. FCS UT Martin and a score prediction.
November 22, 2019Read More
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