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Month: October 2019

How two businessmen hustled to profit from access to Rudy Giuliani and the Trump administration

Long before they burst onto the national scene with their high-profile arrests at Dulles International Airport earlier this month, Soviet-born businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were already turning heads in Republican fundraising circles. “They seemed like hustlers — but not in a bad way. In a good way,” one high-ranking Republican operative familiar with

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Everything you need to know about the secure room at the center of the impeachment inquiry

As the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump escalates on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are constantly looking at documents and interviewing key witnesses behind closed doors in a congressional secure room, or “SCIF.” House Republicans on Wednesday, as a protest, stormed the SCIF where Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Laura Cooper was preparing to testify before the

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Ukrainian President and advisers discussed pressure from Trump weeks before taking office

Two weeks before taking office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team discussed the pressure they were already feeling from the Trump administration and President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to publicly launch investigations that would benefit the US leader, according to a source familiar with discussions at the meeting. The source told CNN

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Trump’s lies on Syria were jaw-dropping

President Donald Trump stood in front of the microphone in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room and strafed the world with a barrage of lies and nonsensical, self-serving claims. We’ve seen it before, but the spectacle Trump served on Wednesday when he bragged and boasted about his great achievement in Syria was even more grotesque

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After Republicans storm hearing room, Defense official testifies in impeachment inquiry

Roughly two-dozen House Republicans on Wednesday stormed a closed-door deposition in secure House Intelligence Committee spaces to rail against the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry, a political stunt ratcheting up the GOP complaints about the process that delayed Wednesday’s scheduled deposition for five hours. The conservative lawmakers, led by Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, barged into

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Maryland AG files lawsuit against Kushner Companies real estate company

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Kushner Companies Westminster Management LLC and 25 property owners alleging illegal and harmful rental practices, according to a release from the attorney general’s office. “We’re charging that Westminster and the rental property owners in this case took advantage of consumers, primarily low- and middle-income

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Tesla shares soar on surprise profit

Tesla was back in the black during the third quarter of 2019. The electric car maker on Wednesday posted a surprise profit of $342 million. Wall Street had expected the company would post a net loss as big as $257 million. Tesla shares soared by up to 20% in after-hours trading. It marked the first

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El metro de Buenos Aires demanda al de Madrid por más de US$ 16 millones por vender trenes con amianto

(CNN Español) — Las autoridades del subterráneo de Buenos Aires entablaron este martes una demanda civil por daños y perjuicios contra el Metro de Madrid por venderles —a sabiendas— trenes de segunda mano con asbesto o amianto, un mineral cancerígeno y prohibido. La demanda consta en los registros judiciales de la capital española. Sbase, la

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