Senate Judiciary Democrats ask Trump to withdraw Kavanaugh or investigate
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to withdraw the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court or immediately order the FBI to investigate allegations of sexual assault.
Trump says China putting ‘propaganda ads’ in U.S. newspapers
President Donald Trump, elaborating on his charge at the United Nations that Beijing is meddling in U.S. elections, said in a Twitter post on Wednesday that China placed “propaganda ads” made to look like news articles in an Iowa newspaper.
Lawmakers urge U.S. to call Myanmar’s Rohingya campaign genocide
Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee called on the Trump administration on Wednesday to declare the Myanmar military’s campaign against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority a genocide, days after a State Department r…
Trump high court nominee denies new allegation as hearing looms
A third woman came forward in a statement to a Senate panel made public on Wednesday accusing Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, of sexual misconduct in the 1980s, further inflaming an already contentious confirmation…
Kavanaugh friend Judge denies allegations: MSNBC
An attorney for Mark Judge, who has been named in allegations against Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh, denied allegations made by a third accuser on Wednesday, MSNBC reported.
Trump accuses China of 2018 election meddling; Beijing rejects charge
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused China of seeking to meddle in the Nov. 6 U.S. congressional elections, saying Beijing did not want his Republican Party to do well because of his pugnacious stance on trade.
Iran says U.S. ‘abused’ Security Council, is ‘further isolated’
The United States “abused” the United Nations Security Council and is “further isolated,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a Twitter post Wednesday.
Senate panel chair says Thursday’s hearing to continue
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Wednesday said that the panel’s staff was investigating the latest claims of sexual assault against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh but that Thursday’s hearing would go forward.
Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh: Latest allegations are ‘from the Twilight Zone’
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday said the latest sexual misconduct allegations made against him were “from the Twilight Zone” and never happened.
Trump says ‘plenty of evidence’ of Chinese meddling in U.S. election
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday there was “plenty of evidence” of China trying to meddle in the upcoming U.S. elections and that Beijing wanted him to lose because he had confronted China on trade issues.
