Section: US & Canada
Ukraine ‘Celebrates Diversity’ With Eurovision, But Critics Complain It’s All ‘A Show’
As Kyiv prepares to host more than 20,000 visitors expected to arrive for the annual Eurovision Song Contest, the city is in overdrive to conceal the scars of its past and put on its best face in an attempt to show the West that Ukraine has overcome political upheaval, endured a bloody war, and become more European in recent years. …read...
Ukraine ‘Celebrates Diversity’ With Eurovision, But Critics Complain It’s All ‘A Show’
As Kyiv prepares to host more than 20,000 visitors expected to arrive for the annual Eurovision Song Contest, the city is in overdrive to conceal the scars of its past and put on its best face in an attempt to show the West that Ukraine has overcome political upheaval, endured a bloody war, and become more European in recent years. …read...
We Hear You: ‘I Never Knew the Wall Made That Much Difference’
Editor’s note: We got some great feedback about our video report on the effects of the border wall built near San Diego, and this week’s mailbag leads off with your comments.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Kelsey Harkness did a really good job covering the border wall in San Diego (“Underreported: How Building a Border Wall Changed...
Steven Seagal is a threat to national security: Ukraine
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France’s Future Course Hangs In Balance Of Presidential Election
Polls have opened in France’s May 7 presidential election runoff that could determine whether their country embraces its status as a leading member of the European Union or sets it on the path to a “Frexit.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump to Germany: Pay Up!
By Jean-Francois BoittinThe U.S. President reflects on why Germans must be made to pay for all the wrongs they inflicted on the United States.I extended a very warm welcome to Chancellor Merkel in the White House. And how does she respond? She invites Ivanka to Berlin, and manages to have my daughter booed at and hissed at during the meeting....
France’s Future Course Hangs In Balance Of Presidential Election
Polls have opened in France’s May 7 presidential election runoff that could determine whether their country embraces its status as a leading member of the European Union or sets it on the path to a “Frexit.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Kiev’s Battle of the Rainbow: Gays, Thugs, and a Soviet Monument
KIEV—A giant banner unfurled over Kiev’s central Maidan Square last week: an enormous broken chain stretched from black smoke, symbolizing the revolution that took place in this very place three years ago, and stretching, through broken links, to a gap to the blue sky: Ukraine’s happy future with Europe. at The Daily Beast....
Kiev’s Battle of the Rainbow: Gays, Thugs, and a Soviet Monument
KIEV—A giant banner unfurled over Kiev’s central Maidan Square last week: an enormous broken chain stretched from black smoke, symbolizing the revolution that took place in this very place three years ago, and stretching, through broken links, to a gap to the blue sky: Ukraine’s happy future with Europe. at The Daily Beast....
France Fights to Keep Macron Email Hack From Distorting Election
PARIS—France sought to keep a computer hack of front-runner Emmanuel Macron’s campaign emails from influencing the outcome of the presidential election, with the electoral commission warning on Saturday that it may be a criminal offense to republish the data. Macron’s team claimed a “massive” hack had dumped emails, documents and...
