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Pompeo breaks silence on alleged threats to envoy in Ukraine

by MATTHEW LEE Associated Press January 17, 2020January 17, 2020

The secretary of state says he believed the allegations would prove to be wrong but that he had an obligation to evaluate and investigate them.

Health, Local & State, News, Politics

Follow the Money: Vaccination vote donations

January 17, 2020February 24, 2020

This searchable database includes all donations through Feb. 21, 2020 to three Maine political action committees that are raising money for their campaigns on Question 1 on the March 3 ballot. A “yes” vote on the question would be a vote to repeal a new law that ends religious and philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccinations, […]

Nation & World, News, Politics

Trump assembles a made-for-TV impeachment defense team

by ERIC TUCKER and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press January 17, 2020January 18, 2020

The president adds two new attorneys – Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz – who are known for their involvement in consequential legal dramas of recent American history, and for their regular appearances on Fox News.

Business, Nation & World, News

Germany agrees to timeline, compensation for coal phase-out

by GEIR MOULSON and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press January 16, 2020January 16, 2020

Germany will pay utility companies billions to speed up the shutdown of their coal-fired power plants.

Nation & World, News

State Department chided for silence over alleged threats to envoy

by MATTHEW LEE Associated Press January 16, 2020January 16, 2020

Ukraine announces an investigation into alleged surveillance of former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.

Nation & World, News

Australia firefighters save world’s only rare dinosaur trees

by ROD McGUIRK Associated Press January 16, 2020January 16, 2020

Firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the cluster of fewer than 200 Wollemi Pines in a remote gorge in the Blue Mountains.

Nation & World, News

U.S. dismisses Iraqi request to work out a troop withdrawal plan

by SAMYA KULLAB and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press January 10, 2020January 10, 2020

Iraq depends on Iran sanctions waivers from Washington to import Iranian gas to meet electricity demands, and the U.S. has consistently used this as leverage.