The pilot of the helicopter that crashed and killed basketball superstar Kobe Bryant climbed to avoid a cloud layer just before slamming into a hillside, federal investigators say. Jennifer Homendy of the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday the pilot received special clearance to fly in heavy fog, then minutes later advised air traffic […]
U.S. President Donald Trump‘s lawyers resume their impeachment defense Monday, as Democrats issue fresh calls for new witnesses in the Senate trial after accounts emerged of Trump telling his then-national security adviser he wanted to withhold security aid to Ukraine until it launched an investigation of a Democratic rival. The New York Times first reported the […]
A Minneapolis carpenter whom the Associated Press exposed as a former Nazi commander — a charge his family fiercely denied — has died. According to a Hennepin County, Minnesota, death certificate, Michael Karkoc died last month in a nursing home at age 100. The Ukrainian-born Karkoc came to the United States after World War II […]
An associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer says the president was aware of a campaign to pressure the Ukrainian government to carry out investigations that would help Trump politically. Trump “knew exactly what was going on,” Lev Parnas told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in an interview broadcast Wednesday night. The New York Times quoted […]