the first week in August."

"The problem was not a bureaucratic glitch, the Ukrainians were told then," according to the Times. "To address it, they were advised, they should reach out to Mick Mulvaney."

The reporting, the Times notes, "corroborates, and provides additional details about, a claim made by a CIA officer in his whistleblower complaint that sparked the impeachment inquiry."

The whistleblower wrote that "as of early August, I heard from U.S. officials that some Ukrainian officials were aware that U.S. aid might be in jeopardy, but I do not know how or when they learned of it." He added that the order to freeze the aid package "had come directly from the president" and "might have a connection with the overall effort to pressure Ukrainian leadership."A married teacher in Maine accused of sleeping with a student was indicted Tuesday on a number of sexual assault charges.

Jill Lamontagne, 29, turned herself into authorities after she was indicted by a York County Grand Jury on six counts of gross sexual assault, two counts of unlawful sexual contact and six counts of abuse of a minor, the Portland Press Herald reported.

“The indictment was the culmination of an investigation into a relationship Lamontagne allegedly had with a juvenile, male student while she was a teacher at the school,” Kennebunk Deputy Chief of Police Michael Nugent said Wednesday, according to Seacoast Online.

Lamontagne allegedly had a relationship with the male student, 17, who was in her health class at Kennebunk High School at the time of sexual contact.

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