Section: US & Canada
Manafort Might Still Have to Answer to Mueller
Seventeen months, two trials, and one voided plea deal later, the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has finally learned his fate: He’ll spend about seven years in federal prison for crimes he committed over more than a decade, marking one of the biggest prosecutorial victories for Special Counsel Robert Mueller since he launched...
Snatched In Plain Sight: No Justice In Crimean Tatar’s Slaying Five Years After Russian Annexation
A Crimean Tatar was killed after being abducted in broad daylight while protesting Russia’s seizure of Crimea in March 2014. Five years later, the case remains unsolved. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Getting a Bead on Greed
Financial Exposure: Carl Levin’s Senate Investigations into Finance and Tax AbuseElise J. BeanPalgrave Macmillan, 2018, 449 pp., $49.99 Donald Trump has, as of the moment I write this, made 8,158 false or misleading claims since becoming President. He began by averaging five a day, but his daily score is now into the double figures and...
Abortion Survivors Speak Out, Detail Their Gut-Wrenching, Firsthand Testimonies
A chilling quote is often attributed to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin: “One death is a tragedy. One million deaths are a statistic.” Stalin is alleged to have said this in the days leading up to one of the largest man-made disasters and mass-murders in history: the 1932 Ukrainian famine. …read more Source: CNS...
3 Saudi women activists receive PEN Freedom to Write Award
NEW YORK — Three Saudi women’s rights activists whose arrests last year have been condemned worldwide are being honoured by PEN America. Nouf Abdulaziz, Loujain al-Hathloul and Eman al-Nafjan have won the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award, the literary and human rights organization announced Thursday. The award was established in 1987 and...
Trump Knew Exactly What He Was Getting With Manafort—a Crook
Rick Wilking/ReutersThe 43-month sentence handed down Wednesday by Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, D.C., finally brings Paul Manafort’s prison term more in line with what the public should expect for such a high-profile and unrepentant white-collar criminal, since it will begin after the 47-month sentence meted out to the former...
New York Charges Against Manafort Provide Intrigue on Sentencing Day
Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/GettyPaul Manafort’s at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Estonian President Urges Unity Among Allies Against Russia
Estonia’s president called for continued unity among democratic allies in the face of Russian aggression on Wednesday and expressed a wish for even greater U.S. involvement in the Baltics. Kersti Kaljulaid, on her second visit to the United States in less than a year, told an audience at the Brookings Institution that membership in the...
We’re Losing the War on Corruption
It’s too bad that Felicity Huffman has been indicted. That probably so poisons her acting career that she can’t be cast as Paul Manafort’s wife, Kathleen, in the inevitable biopic of the lobbyist’s life. But Huffman and Manafort are spiritually connected, and the fact they are packed together above the fold today is more...
With an Eye to Russia, Ukraine Considers New Missiles After Cold War-Era Arms Control Treaty Collapses
KYIV, Ukraine—The impending demise of a Cold War-era arms control treaty has sparked pledges from the leaders of both Ukraine and Russia to develop and field more intermediate-range missiles, highlighting a new flashpoint between the two erstwhile Soviet allies, which have been locked in a limited land war since April 2014. “We are no longer...
