Section: US & Canada
Ukraine Court Finds Lviv Student Guilty Of Torching RFE/RL Reporter’s Car
A Ukrainian court has found a university student guilty of torching an RFE/RL reporter’s car, a decision that the news agency’s president said brings prosecutors closer to apprehending the organizers of the premeditated crime. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Malignant Cruelty of Donald Trump
“I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him—the memory of my dead wife—and perverted it for perceived political gain.”There may be a more damning thing that’s been said about an American president, but none immediately comes to mind.This...
Donald Trump Is Right to Dump the Open Skies Treaty
To the horror of some arms-control advocates, the Trump administration recently announced its long-considered decision to withdraw from the 1992 Treaty on Open Skies (OST). Despite the expected outcry, it’s fully justified in doing so. For years, Russia has been blatantly violating the 34-nation confidence- and security-building treaty,...
Shokin’s refusal to back down, and the Obama administration’s fear of being exposed, got Shokin fired
When Democrats accused the President of withholding military aid to Ukraine, they were trying to divert attention away from the Obama administration’s corruption in Ukraine. At the time, a video of Biden bragging about withholding money from Ukraine was getting too much public attention. Democrats desperately needed a diversion. …read...
1,000 protest Belarusian president seeking another term
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — About 1,000 protesters denouncing authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s seeking of another term in an upcoming election have held the largest opposition demonstration of the year in the capital Minsk. Many of the demonstrators carried slippers as a symbol of protest leader Sergei Tikhanovsky’s...
Valeriy Davydenko, Ukraine lawmaker, found shot dead in office
MOSCOW — The body of a member of the Ukrainian parliament was found Saturday in his office, police said. The body of 47-year-old Valeriy Davydenko was found by a cleaner in the restroom of his office. He had a gunshot wound and there was a pistol near him. The preliminary … …read more Source:: The Washington...
Ukrainian Police Detain Far-Right Activists For Hooliganism Against Pro-Russia Party Headquarters
Seventeen members of a far-right group have been detained for attacking the headquarters of Ukraine’s largest pro-Russia political party in Kyiv. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Body of Ukraine lawmaker found in office, had gunshot wound
Ukrainian police say that the member of parliament has been found in his office. …read more Source:: ABC...
Bill Maher says he now regrets Trump’s impeachment: ‘Turned out to be a horrible thing’
Bill Maher said that he regrets the impeachment led by Democrats against President Donald Trump, and added that it “turned out to be a horrible thing.” “The impeachment, I mean, if I could do it over again, I wouldn’t,” Maher said on Friday’s episode of “Real Time.” “Because it just emboldened...
17 detained in protest outside Ukraine opposition party HQ
Members of a far-right group threw fireworks and smoke bombs and clashed with security guards at the headquarters of Ukraine’s largest Russia-friendly political party …read more Source:: ABC...
