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Wednesday, November 20
GOP WITNESS REJECTS TRUMP'S 'CONSPIRACY THEORIES' Sought by Republicans to testify, Kurt Volker, the former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, spoke up instead for Democrat Joe Biden in Tuesday’s impeachment hearing, rejecting “conspiracy theories” embraced by President Donald Trump and some of his allies. [AP]
FORMER UKRAINE ENVOY TRIES DESPERATE DEFENSE Volker also testified that he was oblivious to the connection between Trump’s desire for an investigation into the Ukrainian gas company Burisma and targeting Biden. [HuffPost]
SONDLAND'S UKRAINE POLICY KNOWN AS 'GORDON PROBLEM' Former National Security Council member Tim Morrison, who served as a top Russia expert on Trump’s NSC until resigning last month, testified that the term was used by his predecessor, Fiona Hill, in discussing EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s influence on Ukraine policy. Sondland gets his highly anticipated turn in the impeachment hearing hot seat today. [HuffPost]
LEGAL ANALYSTS DISMANTLE SANTORUM'S BONKERS DEFENSE Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) suggested that people shouldn't focus on what Trump says, because it's not nearly as important as what his administration does. “This administration does many things, he doesn’t talk about any of them ... he doesn’t talk about policy,” Santorum said on CNN. “This argument is insane,” legal analyst Carrie Cordero fired back. [HuffPost]
SENATE APPROVES BILL SUPPORTING HONG KONG PROTESTS Senators passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act by unanimous consent, which would mandate that the State Department report annually on Hong Kong’s status as an autonomous territory of China. [HuffPost]
HOUSE WHERE HITLER WAS BORN TO BECOME POLICE STATION Following years of uncertainty and dispute over the future of Adolf Hitler’s childhood home, Austrian officials announced that the building would be turned into a police station. The transformation, Interior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn said in a statement, would send an “unmistakable signal” that the property does not commemorate Nazism. [HuffPost] |
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ISRAEL STRIKES IRANIAN TARGETS IN SYRIA The Israeli military says it carried out a “wide-scale” strike on Iranian targets in Syria following a rocket attack on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights the previous day. The military says fighter jets struck dozens of targets, including surface-to-air missiles, weapons warehouses and military bases. [AP]
MORE THAN 100 PROTESTERS KILLED IN IRAN DURING UNREST Amnesty International said more than 100 protesters were killed in 21 cities in Iran during unrest that broke out over a rise in fuel prices last week. Snipers shot into crowds of protesters from rooftops and, in one case, from a helicopter, Amnesty said. [Reuters]
TONIGHT'S DEM DEBATE: TOP 4 VS. EVERYONE ELSE Mayor Pete Buttigieg has emerged as a leader in some Iowa polls, and Sen. Bernie Sanders appears re-energized. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren remain center stage. Together, these four have separated themselves from the 2020 pack. [New York Times]
CONGRESS WANTS REVIEW OF KEYSTONE PIPELINE Top House Democrats have called for a federal review of the Keystone pipeline and the agency that regulates it in the wake of 383,000-gallon spill in northeastern North Dakota, the latest of three spills along the line in as many years. [AP]
U.S. DOCUMENT CACHE COULD SINK PRINCE ANDREW Prince Andrew is named in a cache of secret legal documents detailing explosive new allegations against Jeffrey Epstein that could be unsealed by a U.S. judge before the end of the year. [The Daily Beast]
SECRETIVE STARTUP ACHIEVES SOLAR BREAKTHROUGH A secretive startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet. Heliogen emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday and said it has discovered a way to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so much sunlight that it generates extreme heat above 1,000 degrees Celsius -- hot enough to power carbon-intensive industrial processes like making cement and steel. [CNN] |
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