Democrats announce impeachment trial will go to Senate vote
President Donald Trump derided his impeachment as a “con” on Wednesday as Democratic leaders announced the team that will lead the trial in the Senate. “Here we go again, another Con Job by the Do Nothing Democrats,” Trump tweeted seconds after Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, unveiled the seven-member trial team. White House…
L’écrivain américain Pat Conroy est mort
L’auteur Pat Conroy, célèbre dans le monde entier pour son roman le prince des marées est décédé ce vendredi à l’âge de 70 ans. Il avait annoncé il y a 3 semaines souffrir d’un cancer du pancréas. Il promettait alors de vaincre la maladie, et de publier un nouveau livre. Trente ans après la parution…
Nations of Iran crash victims seek compensation for families
LONDON (AP) — The governments of five countries that lost citizens when Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner demanded Thursday that Tehran accept “full responsibility” and pay compensation to the victims’ families — though they had little to offer besides moral pressure to get Iran to comply. After a meeting in London, foreign ministers from…
World 'will not rest' until answers on downed Iran jet: Canada
London (AFP) – Canada’s foreign minister on Thursday vowed to push Iran for answers about the mistaken downing of a passenger plane amid high tensions after the US killed one of Tehran’s top commanders. The plane was hit and all 176 people on board were killed just hours after Iran fired strikes against US troops…
Russia: Iran was spooked by reports of U.S. F-35s when it downed airliner
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Iran’s accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner last week occurred at a time when Tehran was spooked by reports of advanced U.S. stealth fighters in the area. “There were at least six (U.S.) F-35 fighters in the air in the Iranian border…
Universities, Colleges Where Students Are Eager to Enroll
As students apply to their dream schools, acceptance is almost too good to pass up. That’s reflected at a number of highly competitive colleges where the majority of admitted students enrolled in fall 2018. Yield, which refers to the percentage of accepted students who enroll, was at 80% or higher at a few of the…
A new lawsuit says Jeffrey Epstein trafficked and sexually abused dozens of young girls on one of his private islands in the Caribbean. Here's an inside look at the islands.
Rick Friedman Photography via Getty; Marco Bello/Reuters In July, New York Magazine reported that Jeffrey Epstein owned two neighboring private islands in the US Virgin Islands, which cost him over $25 million collectively. Epstein’s real-estate portfolio has played a major role in the sexual-abuse allegations against him. On August 12, 2019, two days after Epstein died…
Sealed Epstein Docs Name ‘Persons of Means’ in Sex Abuse Case
A federal court in New York is preparing to release more sealed documents in a 2015 defamation suit filed by Virginia Giuffre, a victim of dead sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, against his alleged madam, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. But first, the court will conduct an individualized review of the pleadings that would give attorneys for Maxwell,…
Ukraine Announces Investigation into Alleged Surveillance of U.S. Amb. Yovanovitch by Giuliani Associates
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry announced Thursday that it was opening a criminal probe into allegations of illegal surveillance of former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch by associates of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey The news comes after the House released documents turned over by businessman Lev Parnas, who is under indictment…
Trump donor allegedly spying on Ukraine ambassador was ‘drunk all the time’, Giuliani associate says
An associate of Rudy Giuliani has claimed the Trump donor who allegedly spied on former US ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was “drunk all the time”. In an explosive interview with MSNBC, Lev Parnas, an associate of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, dismissed suggestions that Republican activist Robert Hyde was tracking the movements of Ms Yovanovitch. Documents released…