Section: US & Canada
Father of Polish prime minister says Jews gladly moved to ghettos to get away from non-Jews
(JTA) — A former Polish politician who is the father of the country’s prime minister said that Jews during the Holocaust moved to ghettos of their own accord to get away from non-Jewish Poles. Kornel Morawiecki, a former senator whose son, Mateusz, became prime minister last year, made the remark in an interview published Tuesday by the...
Ukrainian lawmakers must leave guns outside parliament
Ukraine’s parliament has approved a bill requiring lawmakers to lock up their guns before entering the chamber. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukrainian lawmakers must leave guns outside parliament
Ukraine’s parliament has approved a bill requiring lawmakers to lock up their guns before entering the chamber. …read more Source: FOX...
Trump had a chummy call with Putin and didn’t mention the poisoned spy
U.S. President Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin to congratulate the Russian leader on his victory in Sunday’s presidential election and discuss setting up a face-to-face meeting, both the Kremlin and the White House said Tuesday, despite reports of widespread irregularities in the Russian vote. The call — which the Kremlin described as...
White House Confirms Trump-Putin Phone Call
A White House official confirms U.S. President Trump talked to newly re-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone Tuesday morning, but did not offer details. According to an official statement by the Kremlin on Tuesday, Trump “congratulated” Putin on his re-election victory. The two also discussed the importance of working...
Kremlin: Trump congratulates Putin on re-election
By Anton Troianovski | Washington Post MOSCOW – President Donald Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election victory in a phone call on Tuesday, the Kremlin said. The White House confirmed that the call took place but had no immediate comment on the Kremlin’s characterization of it. Some world leaders have...
Exclusive: Russia Secretly Helped Venezuela Launch a Cryptocurrency to Evade U.S. Sanctions
President Donald Trump may not have realized on Monday that his executive order would step on Russia’s toes. Its official target was Venezuela, specifically the country’s plan to create the world’s first state-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, which went on sale Tuesday. But behind the scenes, the petro was in fact a...
The NSA Worked to “Track Down” Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
Internet paranoiacs drawn to Bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency. Increasingly popular among get-rich-quick speculators, Bitcoin started out as a high-minded project to make financial transactions public and mathematically verifiable — while also offering discretion....
Facebook may have broken state and federal law in Cambridge Analytica data share
The Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general have begun probing whether Facebook violated any federal regulations or state privacy laws in their dealings with the campaign consultant group Cambridge Analytica, which Donald Trump’s presidential campaign paid $5.9 million during the 2016 race. Facebook faces potential...
Election Day in Pro-Russia Crimea
Joshua Yaffa reports from Election Day in Crimea, a recently annexed Russian territory where support for President Vladimir Putin remains despite crackdowns on free speech. …read more Source: The New...
