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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s private meetings with US conservative pundits
WASHINGTON — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting informal talks and small, off-the-record dinners with conservative journalists, commentators and at least one Republican lawmaker in recent months to talk about issues like free speech and discuss partnerships. The dinners, which began in July, are part of Zuckerberg’s broader...
Orbán suffers defeat as opposition wins Budapest mayoral race
BUDAPEST — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán suffered his biggest political setback in a decade on Sunday, when an opposition candidate became mayor of Budapest by defeating an incumbent backed by the ruling party. Gergely Karácsony, a 44-year-old liberal, triumphed over István Tarlós, an Orbán ally, by 50 percent to about 44 percent,...
Trump impeachment fight deepens a rift among ambassadors
Some have private planes. Others brag about their polo ponies. Then there are the ones with a direct line to the White House and a willingness to operate outside their mandates — with enough money on hand to cover the legal fees from a congressional investigation. U.S. President Donald Trump’s politically appointed ambassadors have long...
Fright night on the Polish campaign trail
CHEŁM, Poland — There are three things that the ruling Law and Justice party wants Polish voters to know before they head off to vote on Sunday — if the party stays in power, Poles will be richer, more secure and they won’t have to give in to demands from homosexuals. That message was hammered home on Friday night in the party’s...
Trump nominates Pompeo deputy John Sullivan to be ambassador to Russia
President Donald Trump on Friday formally nominated Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan to be the next ambassador to Russia when current ambassador Jon Huntsman steps down later this year. The president telegraphed the move in August, when he didn’t deny reports that he was planning to tap Sullivan for the post and telling reporters...
Two Giuliani Ukraine associates indicted on campaign finance charges
Two foreign-born associates of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, were among those indicted on campaign finance charges made public on Thursday over alleged schemes to buy political influence on behalf of a Ukrainian government official and a Russian businessman. The Giuliani associates had been working with the former New York...
Poland’s economic miracle won’t last
WARSAW — Since coming to power in 2015, Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has captured state institutions, attacked the independence of the courts and violated the basic norms of the legislative process. Despite these controversial moves, the government has maintained a high level of support among Polish voters. In large part,...
Pompeo: US didn’t give Turkey a ‘green light’ to invade Syria
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is defending the Trump administration’s withdrawal of military support for Kurdish forces in Syria, just as Turkey invaded the northern part of the country to push out Kurdish militias. U.S. President Donald Trump late Sunday announced a withdrawal of U.S. forces in northeastern Syria after a phone call...
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[Ticker] US ambassador to EU will not testify in Trump impeachment
The US ambassador to the EU, Peter Sondland, was asked by the US House of Representatives to testify in the impeachment investigation into president Donald Trump. However, the State Department has forbidden him to do so. Sondland would have played a role in pushing Ukraine to investigate the business affairs of the son of Democratic presidential...
‘An avoidable, unforced error’: Trump’s Ukraine trap starts worrying allies
To his allies, U.S. President Donald Trump never did anything to warrant the investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 election. But this is not Russia. This time, some of those same allies say, Trump brought the Ukraine investigation on himself. One said it‘s “unseemly,” while others called it a “naive” and “stupid” mistake, to ask a...
