Section: US & Canada
Kelly furious over Putin ‘DO NOT CONGRATULATE’ leak
White House chief of staff John Kelly is furious over the leak of briefing materials prepared for President Donald Trump’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a White House official told POLITICO on Wednesday, as the West Wing faced another wave of damaging news coverage following the revelation. Trump was instructed in briefing...
White House in uproar over Trump-Putin call leaks
By Zeke Miller and Jonathan Lemire | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The tempest over President Donald Trump’s congratulatory phone call to Vladimir Putin quickly grew on Wednesday into an uproar over White House leaks, sparking an internal investigation and speculation over who might be the next person Trump forces out of the West Wing. The...
From Hero To Terrorist? Ukraine’s Savchenko Refutes Terror Charges, But Admits To ‘Absurd Plans’
Ukrainian lawmaker Nadia Savchenko, a national heroine as a prisoner of war in Russia, told RFE/RL in an interview that charges of organizing an armed attack on parliament are “absurd.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Rejects Tatar Businessman’s Asylum Request
A businessman from Russia’s Tatarstan region says Ukraine has rejected his petition for political asylum. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Cambridge Analytica and its many scandals, explained
The firm has close ties to Steve Bannon, worked for the Trump campaign — and is now in some hot water. Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that did digital work for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 and has close ties to Steve Bannon and GOP megadonor Robert Mercer, is in hot water after several recent reports have...
That Putin phone call: Once again Trump acts like a man held captive
Vladmir Putin; Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Getty/Salon) Whenever an autocrat or a dictator “wins” an election it’s always a diplomatic challenge for more democratic countries to figure out how to respond. In order for nations to have open channels of communication there has to be some basic acknowledgment of the legitimacy of the...
Ukraine to commemorate Reform synagogue destroyed by Nazis in Lviv
(JTA) — Municipal authorities in the city of Lviv in Ukraine are designing a commemorative monument atop a square where one of the region’s first Reform synagogues once stood before the Nazis destroyed it. A preliminary design for the project features the use of paint or red-tinted bricks that would trace the contours of the Temple...
The Morning Vertical, March 21, 2018
Your daily roundup. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The leak over Trump’s Putin phone call has the White House peeved
(Credit: Getty/Win McNamee) President Donald Trump’s controversial congratulatory phone call to Vladimir Putin, which was made despite the objections of his advisers, is causing considerable internal drama in the White House itself. Trump is reportedly furious that the contents of his advisers’ warning was leaked, given that only a...
Trump congratulated Putin after advisers wrote “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in all caps on his briefing materials
President Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on winning the Russian election, despite national security advisers writing “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in all caps on the briefing materials, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Trump not only ignored these instructions, the paper reports, but also ignored advice to bring up the nerve...
