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The quilt was the brainchild of AIDS activists in the late 1980’s who wanted to use names to memorialize the lives of people who had died of the disease.
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GOP Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) just blew his attempt to brush off the impeachment hearings’ latest bombshell.In the second of Wednesday’s hearings, Defense Department official Laura Cooper revised her previous closed-door testimony to say Ukrainian officials noticed their U.S. security aid was held up months earlier than she previously said. Ratcliffe then tried to lead Cooper into saying that was no big deal, but she didn’t give in to his loaded question.Cooper recently learned Ukraine had inquired about withheld U.S. security aid as early as July 25, she said Wednesday in a revision from her earlier testimony. That’s the same day President Trump asked Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens and the 2016 election — an alleged quid pro quo. Republicans have tried brush off that alleged exchange, saying a quid pro quo couldn’t have happened if Ukraine didn’t know the aid was being held up.Cooper’s statement bucked that notion, so when Ratcliffe got a chance to question her, asked a series of questions in which he tried to get Cooper to claim Ukraine’s inquiries about the aid were no big deal. The inquiries from Ukraine about the aid asked about the “assistance,” not necessarily the “hold,” Ratcliffe asked. “Not necessarily,” Cooper agreed after a pause, mirroring his statements as he continued. But when Ratcliffe tried to tie it all together and say it’s “not unusual” for countries to ask about aid, Cooper used her “experience with the Ukrainians” to say that’s just not the case. Watch that moment below. > GOP Rep. Ratcliffe: “It’s not unusual…for foreign countries to inquire about foreign aid?” > > Laura Cooper: “In my experience with the Ukrainians, they typically would call about specific things, not just generally checking in on their assistance package.” https://t.co/9xNcgadn90 pic.twitter.com/kmNx7hDcBq> > — Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) November 21, 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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Britain’s main opposition Labour party on Thursday unveiled its general election manifesto, promising a radical agenda for social change, including nationalising key industries and a controversial second referendum on Brexit. Party leader Jeremy Corby…
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Thursday praised the armed forces for taking “timely” action against “rioters” and suggested calm had been restored after days of unrest sparked by a hike in petrol prices. Authorities vowed to arrest leaders of the prot…
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The opening statement that Ms. Cooper delivered largely aligned with her previous, closed-door testimony, but she added some new details.
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The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles signed an agreement to share records that the Census Bureau says will help it produce data about the citizenship status of every person living in the U.S.
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A lawyer for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman sent a letter to Fox News on Wednesday, requesting that the network either retract or correct a “deeply flawed and erroneous” segment that aired during the Oct. 28 episode of The Ingraham Angle.Vindman is the National Security Council’s Ukraine expert, and the segment aired prior to his closed-door testimony as part of the House impeachment inquiry. Host Laura Ingraham said it was “kind of an interesting angle” that Vindman “is advising Ukraine, while working inside the White House, apparently against the president’s interest, and usually, they spoke in English.” Yoo replied, “I found that astounding. Some people might call that espionage.”In his letter, lawyer David Pressman wrote that Vindman “had never in his 20-year career of service to his country been accused of having dual loyalties or committing espionage,” which is a felony punishable by death. This falsehood was repeated by others, Pressman said, and Vindman, a Purple Heart recipient who served in Iraq, and his family “have been forced to examine options, including potentially moving onto a military base, in order to ensure their physical security in the face of threats rooted in the falsehood that Fox News originated.”In a statement, Fox News said that “as a guest on Fox News, John Yoo was responsible for his own statements, and he has subsequently done interviews to clarify what he meant.” Yoo told The New York Times in an email that he “didn’t say that Lt. Col. was a spy or that he had committed espionage. I had no reason to question that he was doing his duty as an officer. But I think the Ukrainians are engaged in espionage against us.” That argument, Pressman said, is “as legally irrelevant as it is factually incredible.”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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Male teammate Tyren Moore signed with Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday as well.
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Impeachment testimony changes are turning out to be game changers.In the second of Wednesday’s back-to-back impeachment hearings, Defense Department official Laura Cooper had something to revise from her closed-door testimony right off the bat. While Cooper originally testified Ukrainian officials started asking about withheld security aid on Sept. 5, she said Wednesday she’s since heard from aides that Ukrainians had inquired months earlier.The withholding of aid to Ukraine is a major part of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. It’s one half of the quid pro quo Trump has denied, allegedly withheld by the Trump administration until the Ukrainian government agreed to announce an investigation into the Bidens. Several officials have testified the aid was held up for this reason, but one major point made by Republicans has been that the aid was eventually released, and that the Ukrainians didn’t even know it was missing until after Trump’s infamous July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky where he requested the Biden investigation.Cooper’s testimony undercuts that narrative. She said Wednesday she’d since seen emails provided by staffers showing Ukrainian officials asked about the aid on July 25, the day of the call where Trump asked Zelensky to “do me a favor.” If that’s true, it would be much harder to claim the Ukrainians didn’t feel pressured by Trump’s request.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 Democrat from New York will lead a crucial investigative panel involved in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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Ahead of the Democratic debate on Wednesday, we asked Times readers what issues they most wanted the presidential candidates to discuss, and why.
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