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Mr. Kolomoisky said in interviews in the Ukrainian news media that Mr. Parnas and Mr. Fruman traveled to see him in Israel in April, ostensibly to talk about their plans to sell gas to Ukraine. But, he said, the two men then pushed him to arrange a meeting between Mr. Giuliani and Ukraine’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Mr. Giuliani had been seeking to press Mr. Zelensky to agree to…

A car drives through a darkened Montclair Village as Pacific Gas & Electric power shutdowns continue in Oakland, Calif. The area remains without power after the utility cut service hoping to prevent wildfires during dry, windy conditions. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP A car drives through a darkened Montclair Village as Pacific Gas & Electric power shutdowns continue in Oakland, Calif. The area remains without power after…

A car drives through a darkened Montclair Village as Pacific Gas & Electric power shutdowns continue in Oakland, Calif. The area remains without power after the utility cut service hoping to prevent wildfires during dry, windy conditions. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP A car drives through a darkened Montclair Village as Pacific Gas & Electric power shutdowns continue in Oakland, Calif. The area remains without power after…

PG&E reports improving weather conditions in parts of the areas affected by the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) have allowed for an “all clear” to be issued for safety inspections, repair and restoration efforts to begin in many areas. All clears have been declared in the following areas to begin inspections and assess if equipment is safe to resume electric delivery services. PG&E crews will visually inspect power lines to…

“I don’t know those gentlemen,” Trump said. “Now, it’s possible I have a picture with them, because I have a picture with everybody. … I don’t know about them; I don’t know what they do. I don’t know, maybe they were clients of Rudy. You’d have to ask Rudy.”

WASHINGTON — To circumvent White House efforts to impede the House impeachment inquiry, Democrats have launched a fresh offensive to bury the White House with numerous subpoenas and interview requests. Democrats on Thursday issued a subpoena to Energy Secretary Rick Perry to produce documents related to President Donald Trump and the Ukraine. Perry led the U.S. delegation in May to the inauguration of Ukraine’s president whose phone conversation with Trump…

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A bipartisan Senate effort is in the works to punish Turkey for its attacks on Kurds just days after President Donald Trump withdrew US troops from northern Syria earlier this week. Led by staunch Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), the goal is to impose a financial penalty on Turkey’s highest political leaders — including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — and military for invading…

“If the GOP Minority Leader and his campaign committee are willing to pocket money from a man who was just arrested for funneling Russian campaign donors into American elections, then it is clear there no line they will not cross,” DCCC spokesman Cole Leiter said. “This is a question of un-American activity: either you stand for the sanctity of our elections and defending our Constitution, or you do not. Today,…

Rudy Giuliani, the personal lawyer for President Trump, alleged that a Ukrainian natural gas company that employed Joe Biden’s son Hunter also paid the former vice president $900,000 in lobbying fees. Giuliani, appearing Wednesday night on Fox News’ “The Sean Hannity Show,” cited as evidence documents released by Andriy Derkach, a member of Ukraine’s parliament. “Biden, his son and his brother had a 30-year-long scam to make money, millions, selling…

A Florida man who was found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man during a dispute over a handicapped parking space in Florida last year was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday. Michael Drejka, who fatally shot Markeis McGlockton, 28, outside of a Clearwater convenience store in July 2018, was found guilty of manslaughter in August. On Thursday, McGlockton’s family addressed Drejka. “In the Bible,…

Outside a Safeway grocery store just after dawn, dead traffic lights caused backups. Commuters toting travel mugs from homes without power begrudgingly got back in their cars without coffee when security guards informed them that the store would open late. While many residents said they had received emails or calls warning them that PG&E may cut power at some point this week, most said they had trouble getting access to…

LONDON —Turkish forces continued their advance into northeastern Syria Thursday as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey’s air and ground offensive had killed more than 100 people since the operation began. It was unclear whether all of those killed were fighting with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, one of the targets of the operation. “The operation is currently continuing with the involvement of all our units …109 terrorists have been…

President Trump has dismissed concerns that Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria could enable hundreds of hardened ISIS fighters to go free as a problem for other countries. There are more than 10,000 ISIS detainees held in jails across northern Syria run by America’s long-time Kurdish allies, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The Kurds had warned that a Turkish offensive against them, which began on Wednesday, would force them to turn…

There are now 359,000 people without power in the Bay Area after phase 2 of PG&E’s power shutoffs were implemented overnight. Parts of the East Bay, Peninsula, South Bay and Santa Cruz lost energy in the latest outages. Across Northern California, PG&E cut power to the counties of Alameda, Alpine, Calaveras, Contra Costa, Mariposa, Mendocino, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus and Tuolumne. The Contra Costa County…

President Trump speaks at the White House Oct. 9, 2019. An NPR analysis of his tweets shows Trump using very different language and insults when sparring with white and non-white Democratic lawmakers. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images President Trump speaks at the White House Oct. 9, 2019. An NPR analysis of his tweets shows Trump using very different language and insults…

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“Are you truly blind to what you got wrong in 2016, or are you deliberately continuing policies that distort reality for the sake of controversy and the clicks that accompany it?” Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, wrote in the Wednesday letter, which was posted by CNN’s Oliver Darcy.

Video Matt Whitaker defends Trump amid impeachment probe Matt Whitaker defends Trump amid impeachment probe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is overseeing a biased impeachment inquiry into President Trump, and the White House is right to be concerned about the process, according to former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. Democrats like Rep. Pelosi, D-Calif., are carrying out a probe inconsistent with the basic tenets of American jurisprudence, Whitaker claimed Wednesday on…