Section: US & Canada
Clashes In Odesa After Kids’ Camp Fire
Angry crowds gathered outside city hall, demanding the mayor’s resignation — following a fire at a Ukrainian children’s camp that killed three girls. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Who in the White House Decided to Wiretap Manafort?
President Donald Trump, who is noted for his frequent exaggerations, just might have been right about the Obama administration’s attempts to derail his campaign. CNN, a hostile news source that had previously denounced Trump’s claims that he had been wiretapped at Trump Tower, reported late on Monday that former Trump campaign manager...
Crimean Tatar Leader Tells Court He’s ‘Only A Citizen Of Ukraine’
A Russian prosecutor in Crimea has recommended a suspended sentence for Ilmi Umerov, a Crimean Tatar leader who has criticized Russia’s seizure of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Who in the White House Decided to Wiretap Manafort?
President Donald Trump, who is noted for his frequent exaggerations, just might have been right about the Obama administration’s attempts to derail his campaign. CNN, a hostile news source that had previously denounced Trump’s claims that he had been wiretapped at Trump Tower, reported late on Monday that former Trump campaign manager...
Crimean Tatar Leader Tells Court He’s ‘Only A Citizen Of Ukraine’
A Russian prosecutor in Crimea has recommended a suspended sentence for Ilmi Umerov, a Crimean Tatar leader who has criticized Russia’s seizure of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
In Kyiv, Saakashvili Demands Documents That Stripped Him Of Ukrainian Citizenship
Mikheil Saakashvili, the ex-governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region and former president of Georgia, has arrived in Ukraine’s capital, where he vowed to challenge the revocation of his Ukrainian citizenship. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Wolverines! Rocky! … Comrade Detective?
The first episode of Comrade Detective opens with producer and star Channing Tatum sitting in a movie theater with journalist Jon Ronson. They are gathered to present a forgotten treasure from an even more forgotten time, which took over two decades to find, in a continent-spanning search, and obtained “with the cooperation of five international...
Manafort Demands DOJ Inspector General Probe Of FISA Order Report
Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who has been a focus of various Russia probes, responded Tuesday to a CNN report that he had been the subject of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (or “FISA”) surveillance order by calling for an investigation by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General into the revelation. “If...
In stark UN speech, Trump threatens to “destroy” North Korea
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to “totally destroy North Korea” if the U.S. is forced to defend itself or its allies against the renegade nation’s nuclear weapons program, making his case in a combative debut speech to the U.N. that laid out a stark, good-vs-evil view of a globe riven by chaos and turmoil....
Wolverines! Rocky! … Comrade Detective?
The first episode of Comrade Detective opens with producer and star Channing Tatum sitting in a movie theater with journalist Jon Ronson. They are gathered to present a forgotten treasure from an even more forgotten time, which took over two decades to find, in a continent-spanning search, and obtained “with the cooperation of five international...
