Section: US & Canada
Canada encouraging Iran to ship black boxes to France as soon as possible
OTTAWA — Transport Minister Marc Garneau says Canada is eager for Iran to follow through on a new pledge to send the black boxes from the downed Ukraine Airlines jetliner to France. After more than two months of refusing to give up the recorders, Farhad Parvaresh, Iran’s delegate to the International Civil Aviation Organization, told the...
Canada encouraging Iran to ship black boxes to France as soon as possible
OTTAWA — Transport Minister Marc Garneau says Canada is eager for Iran to follow through on a new pledge to send the black boxes from the downed Ukraine Airlines jetliner to France. After more than two months of refusing to give up the recorders, Farhad Parvaresh, Iran’s delegate to the International Civil Aviation Organization, told the...
Will Bill Barr Go to Jail When This Is All Done?
Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyAttorney General at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Bolton book to argue ‘Trump misconduct with other countries’ beyond Ukraine: report
Former White House national security adviser John Bolton will claim in his forthcoming book that President Trump engaged in “misconduct with other countries,” beyond his contacts with Ukraine, the subject of the president… …read more Source:: The...
COVID-19: Armenia Extends State Of Emergency; Ukraine’s First Lady Tests Positive
Armenia’s government has extended the current state of emergency by another month given the “tense” situation that remains surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. Resumes Military Aid To Ukraine With Release Of $250 Million In Assistance
The U.S. Defense Department has announced a resumption of millions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine after it was frozen last year, putting it at the heart of the impeachment of President Donald Trump. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Dangers of Delusion
What if, instead of being a sign of America’s decline, Donald Trump’s erratic and destructive presidency was a kind of harbinger of America’s enduring resiliency? That seems to be the main message of Bruno Maçães’ latest book, History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America. Mind you, the book is far from a MAGA manifesto or...
Is OAN the Leading Edge of Russian Misinformation?
In what appears to be a signal of intensifying political warfare ahead of the November election, One America News Network, the Trump-supporting cable channel that has been promoting anti-Biden conspiracies for several months, says it has obtained several hours of secret recordings of then–Vice President Biden’s conversations with Ukrainian...
Trump Corrupts Everyone Around Him
By the evening of Monday, June 1, General Mark Milley must have thought that he’d won the fight.That’s Milley’s job—he’s the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—and throughout the day he’d been battling with fellow Trump-administration officials over how to handle protests in Washington, D.C. The president and some...
U.S. to send $250M in military aid to Ukraine
The Department of Defense said Thursday that it plans to send $250 million in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funds additional training, equipment and advisory efforts to defend itself against Russian aggression. …read more Source:: United Press...
