The Hill criticizes, but does not recant, Solomon articles

NEW YORK (AP) — The Washington publication The Hill issued a lengthy report on Wednesday finding fault with several articles by journalist John Solomon that it published last year and were used as discredited narratives by President Donald Trump and many of his supporters in their fight against impeachment.

The Capitol Hill publication, in an internal review, found fault with how its own journalists failed to point out distinctions between news and opinion pieces and didn't disclose conflicts of interest to readers.

The Hill stopped short of retracting or apologizing for Solomon's work. It has not erased the pieces from its website but added editor's notes that questioned the credibility of some of his sources and what they told him.

Bob Cusack, the publication's editor-in-chief, did not immediately return phone messages.

Solomon reported that a Ukrainian prosecutor had opened an investigation into alleged attempts by Ukrainians to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election on behalf of Democrat Hillary Clinton, a false story spread by Russians to deflect from their own involvement on behalf of Trump. The prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, also said that U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch had given him a list of officials not to prosecute for corruption. The State Department denied this at the time and Lutsenko later recanted his claims.

In later testimony in Trump's impeachment investigation, the articles on Yovanovitch were described as part of a smear campaign set in motion by Trump's lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani.

Solomon also falsely suggested that former Vice President Joe Biden had intervened in the Ukraine to protect his son Hunter, who worked on the board of Urisma, a Ukrainian company, the review said.

Solomon, who had worked at The Associated Press, Washington Post and...