Section: US & Canada
Volodymyr Zelensky’s Moment of Reckoning
One year ago, on May 20, 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky took the oath of office as Ukraine’s sixth democratically elected President. He was swept into office with 73 percent support from Ukrainian voters, receiving the largest mandate in independent Ukraine’s 30-year history and humbling the incumbent, Petro Poroshenko.Zelensky came to...
COVID-19 Exposes Funding Crisis In Ukraine’s Hospitals
COVID-19 is exposing acute funding shortages in Ukraine’s health service. In Kharkiv, a public hospital is mostly relying on private donations and patients are paying for medicines that are supposed to be free. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia says it scales down war games amid pandemic
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister said Tuesday that Moscow has scaled down its military drills amid the coronavirus pandemic. Sergey Lavrov said that the Russian military also has decided not to conduct any war games near the country’s borders with NATO member nations during the outbreak. Russia-West relations have sunk to...
Russia says it scales down war games amid pandemic
MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister said Tuesday that Moscow has scaled down its military drills amid the coronavirus pandemic. Sergey Lavrov said that the Russian military also has decided not to conduct any war games near the country’s borders with NATO member nations during the outbreak. Russia-West relations have sunk to post-Cold...
‘A Nightmare’: Mourning Doctors Felled During Ukraine’s COVID-19 Outbreak
Current Time has spoken to spouses and close colleagues of medical staff who have died from COVID-19 while caring for others infected by the coronavirus. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Rubio steps in to lead Senate Intelligence Committee
WASHINGTON — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will temporarily become chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican leaders announced, taking charge of the panel at a time of turnover and tension in the nation’s intelligence community. Rubio will replace North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, who said last week that he would step aside after...
Trump Is Attacking the Final Safeguard Against Executive Abuses
President Donald Trump’s Friday-night firing of Steve Linick, the inspector general for the State Department, is more than a scandal about alleged abuse of office by Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state—though it is that.It’s more than a scandal about the Trump administration’s decimation of the inspector-general corps, with four...
Trump Nominates Cleveland US Attorney To DC Post, Overseeing Flynn Case
President Trump nominated a permanent U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on Monday, naming current U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Justin Herdman to the position. The move brings acting U.S. Attorney for D.C. Timothy Shea’s brief, fraught tenure to an end, while putting Herdman in charge of a U.S. Attorney’s...
Harris urges GOP chairman to focus on coronavirus ahead of Biden-Burisma subpoena vote
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is publicly urging a key GOP chairman to focus on the coronavirus ahead of a scheduled vote on a subpoena related to a controversial investigation into Hunter Biden and Ukraine gas company Bu… …read more Source:: The...
Where Things Stand: This Should Change The Narrative
But it probably won’t. I wrote last week about my fascination with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s months-long crusade to use the media to pressure the secretary of state to run for Senate in Kansas. McConnell views Mike Pompeo as the ideal candidate: He has enough establishment support to unite the party in the key state...
