U.S. President Donald Trump denied Wednesday that he had urged Attorney General William Barr to hold a news conference clearing him of any illegal acts in a July phone call with Ukraine’s president. The Washington Post reported that Trump made the request, which Barr declined, around the time the White House released a rough transcript of the call in which […]
Source: VOA U.S. President Donald Trump, faced with a mounting impeachment inquiry, said Monday that written answers are not good enough from the whistleblower who first disclosed that he had pressed Ukraine to pursue investigations of one of his chief 2020 Democratic political rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden. “He must be brought forward to […]
Source: VOA Iran’s nuclear chief announced Monday the country is operating dozens of advanced centrifuges in a move that further goes against the 2015 agreement the country signed with a group of world powers. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said told state television Monday that Iran was operating the IR-6 […]
President Donald Trump said Sunday he cloaked the raid to kill Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in secrecy, telling only his closest advisers, two Republican lawmakers and no opposition Democrats in advance, for fear of leaks about the operation. Trump told reporters at the White House that Russia was given a heads-up that a […]