Section: US & Canada
There are now 1 million cholera cases in Yemen
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Congress narrowly avoids shutdown just in time for vacation
Sign up for a weekly newsletter about President Donald Trump to be delivered to your inbox every Friday. Donald Trump made it clear at the beginning of his campaign that he wasn’t going to follow the normal rules or tone of politics. We’re keeping track of all the ways his presidency veers from the norm in terms of policy and...
Ukraine says aide to PM who visited Theresa May at 10 Downing Street was feeding secrets to Russia
Ukraine’s Security Service, or SBU, said the suspect allegedly passed government secrets to his Russian handlers …read more Source: Vancouver...
Trump ‘Oblivious’ To ‘Dangers’ Russia Poses in Ukraine, Former U.S. Ambassador Says
The conflict in Ukraine began in 2014 and has since claimed over 10,000 lives. …read more Source:...
What I Learned From a Wartime Christmas Eve
KYIV, Ukraine—The first time I ever saw a war, it was on Christmas Eve in 2009. At the time, I was a green Air Force special operations pilot on my first deployment to Afghanistan. I had already been in country for a few weeks, flying mostly day missions. Easy stuff, like surveillance and reconnaissance sorties, which typically meant orbiting ad...
The Dangerous Incoherence of Trump’s Russia Policy
In 2014, the Republican Congress passed the loftily named Ukrainian Freedom Support Act, which permitted the sale of lethal weapons to Ukraine. President Barack Obama signed the bill into law, but as The Washington Post reported, he “never authorized large commercial or government sales, a move widely seen as a de facto decision not to provide...
Ukrainian interpreter who attended Trudeau meeting arrested on suspicion of being Russian spy
Stanislav Yezhov was part of a Ukrainian government delegation that accompanied Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman during a visit to Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal in October …read more Source: The Globe and...
US Approves Sale by US Manufacturers of Lethal Weapons to Ukraine
The United States has approved the sale by U.S. manufacturers of lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert confirmed this week that Congress was notified of the matter on December 13. The legal framework for U.S. manufacturers to sell arms to Ukraine has existed since the Obama administration, Nauert said....
Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Agency Alleges Fraud in Arms Industry
The country’s war on graft is far from over. …read more Source: Foreign...
The Open Secret About Trump’s Collusion With Russia
Donald Trump made countless startling statements during last year’s presidential campaign, but one—in Doral, Florida—may be coming back to haunt him. At a televised news conference on July 27, 2016, Trump delivered a direct message to Moscow. Not content with the fact that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee, the candidate...
