2019

Impeachment Briefing: What Happened on Day 1 of Public Hearings

This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weeknight. William B. Taylor Jr., the top American diplomat in Ukraine, and George P. Kent, a senior State Department official, were the first public witnesses of the impeachment inquiry. The men, who between

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As Talks With Putin Loom, Ukraine Looks in Vain for U.S. Help

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainians are used to hearing the West call for stability in their country. This fall, the roles have reversed. “Ukraine would very much like to see a stable political situation in the States,” Oleksandr Turchynov, the previous Ukrainian president’s national security adviser, said in an interview. The relationship between Kiev and Washington,

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Iraq’s protests raise question: Where does the oil money go?

Waves of violent protests have engulfed Baghdad and Iraq’s southern provinces, with demonstrators chanting for the downfall of a political establishment that they say doesn’t prioritize them. Fueling the unrest is anger over an economy flush with oil money that has failed to bring jobs or improvements to the lives of young people, who are

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Virginia doctor accused of performing unnecessary surgeries

Dr. Javaid Perwaiz’s website describes his surgical skills for gynecological procedures as “unparalleled.” But federal prosecutors say many of the procedures he performed were unnecessary, unwanted and even unknown to some of his patients. Perwaiz, 69, of Chesapeake, Virginia, was arrested last week in a case that has drawn outrage and prompted patients seeking their

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Colbert Reveals How Trump’s Impeachment Is Already Worse Than Nixon’s

“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert celebrated Wednesday’s first day of public hearings in the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.   “It’s what we’ve been praying for since the beginning of the Trump presidency,” he cracked. “The end of the Trump presidency.”  Colbert noted the revelation that Bill Taylor, the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, last

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