Section: US & Canada
Not a coup. Opposite!
I’m no Trump supporter, but let’s be reasonable: On Jan. 6, the president did what every politician does—he asked his supporters to fight for him, and after they fought for him by invading a government building, assaulting four dozen police officers, and hunting down and threatening to assassinate the country’s top lawmakers, he...
It’s Joe Biden’s world now. Can he fix it?
Now that the lurid madhouse of Donald Trump’s presidency has come to its downfall in convulsions of mass violence and insurrection, the painstaking work of restoring America’s shattered confidence in itself isn’t even the steepest uphill climb facing Trump’s creaky 78-year-old successor from Scranton, Penn., the genial and...
Ukraine Denies House Arrest To Jailed Suspect In 2016 Journalist Killing
A Ukrainian court has rejected a request by a jailed suspect in the high-profile 2016 killing of journalist Pavel Sheremet to be transferred to house arrest. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Goodbye Lenin? Not In These Ukrainian Villages
All of Ukraine’s statues of Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin should have been taken down under a law passed in 2015. But in three small villages, indomitable Lenins still hold out — due to lack of money for demolition, apathy, and, in one case, a road so bad they couldn’t get a crane to it. …read more Source:: Radio...
James Comey says the GOP needs to be ‘burned down or changed,’ calling the pro-Trump riot at the Capitol ‘our own Chernobyl’
Former FBI Director James Comey. Alex Wong/Getty Images Former FBI Director James Comey eviscerated President Donald Trump, his supporters, and the Republican Party in an interview with The Guardian. He described the pro-Trump riot at the Capitol as the US’s “Chernobyl” — referring to the 1986 nuclear accident — saying it was...
How should Joe Biden handle Donald Trump’s post-presidency? Gerald Ford provides a guide
President Donald Trump has achieved many shameful firsts. He is the first sitting president to refuse to accept his reelection loss, making him a historic loser. He is the first president to urge his followers to commit an insurrection so he can stay in power. And he is the first president to be impeached twice. That’s just a shortlist....
Critics to McConnell: Trump would already be convicted ‘if the Senate trial were a right-wing judicial confirmation’
With the U.S. Senate set to reconvene Tuesday—President Donald Trump’s final full day in office—progressives are demanding that the chamber immediately get to work on convicting the outgoing incumbent for provoking the violent mob attack on the Capitol Building earlier this month and barring him from holding office again in the...
Three samples of ice cream tested positive for COVID-19 in China
Pat Gray discussed a report released on Friday about COVID-19-contaminated ice cream produced in China by Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Company. “It’s likely this has come from a person, and without knowing the details, I think this is probably a one-off,” Dr. Stephen Griffin, a virologist based at the University of Leeds, told Sky...
Trump missed having Putin at Canada’s 2018 G7 leaders’ summit dinner, recalls sherpa
OTTAWA — During his only supper on Canadian soil, Donald Trump told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and their fellow G7 leaders that their table was incomplete. Come 2020, the American president promised to fix that by inviting Russia’s Vladimir Putin to his G7 dinner. It was June 2018, four years since Russia had been expelled from what was...
Chinese ice cream tests positive for COVID-19
Ice cream in China has been contaminated with COVID-19, according to a new report. During recent routine government testing, three samples from the ice cream manufacturer tested positive for coronavirus. The tainted ice cream was produced by the Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Company, a frozen dessert business located in north China’s Tianjin...
