Section: US & Canada
For Russia and US, Uneasy Cooperation on Cybercrime Is Now a Mess
Agents from the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service showed up in Moscow in May 2009 with a specific mission: to nab one of the world’s most notorious hackers. But to do that, the Americans needed Russia’s help. They turned to the Federal Security Service (FSB), the country’s main intelligence agency, and shared operational...
Military plane crashes in Cuba, killing all 8 on board
A military airplane crashed into a mountain in Cuba’s north-western region of Artemisa on Saturday morning, killing all eight personnel on board, the Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces said. …read more Source:...
The Latest: Fight time for Joshua and Klitschko
The Latest on the Anthony Joshua-Wvladimir Klitschko heavyweight title fight in Wembley Stadium. (all times local): 9:55 p.m. The British and Ukrainian national anthems out of the way, Wladimir Klitschko … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
The Latest: Fight time for Joshua and Klitschko
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the Anthony Joshua-Wvladimir Klitschko heavyweight title fight in Wembley Stadium. (all times local): 9:55 p.m. The British and Ukrainian national anthems out of the way, Wladimir Klitschko and Anthony Joshua are about to get it on. Joshua kept Klitschko cooling in the ring while making a theatrical entrance, then...
The Washington Post has a lobbyist as a writer. Here are 12 times they didn’t disclose conflicts of interest
(Credit: AP/Gerald Herbert) The Washington Post has repeatedly failed to inform readers about major financial conflicts of interest in pieces by opinion writer Ed Rogers. Rogers is a leading Republican lobbyist who has used his Post column to advocate for the interests of his firm’s clients without disclosure in at least a dozen instances...
Why I Issued A Dissent To USCIRF’s 2017 Annual Report
This week, nearing the end of four years of service as an Obama Presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), I felt compelled to issue a public dissent to USCIRF’s 2017 Annual Report.While the larger part of my dissent dealt with the way the Commission does its work (which I will discuss in a...
The Changing of the Global Economic Guard
In January 2017 the global economy changed guard. The venue was Davos, the annual gathering of the world’s wealthiest recyclers of conventional wisdom—and consistently one of the last places to anticipate what is going to happen next. This time was different. The assembled hedge-fund tycoons, Silicon Valley data executives, management...
Was Michael Flynn a Russian agent of influence? A modest proposal for how that could have gone down
Michael Flynn (Credit: Getty/Kevin Hagen) It’s been a bad week for Michael Flynn. It seems that the former national security adviser and Trump campaign official may have lied on his application for a top-secret security clearance back in January 2016, and he apparently neglected to inform Department of the Army officials of his trip to...
Trump’s First 100 Days, Ranked
Many of us political scribes are sizing up the meaning of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office with long essays about foreign policy evolutions or executive orders or presidential temperament. But I thought: What better way to mark the milestone than with a good old-fashioned ranking—a list, from best to worst, smooth to...
Ukraine Begins Confiscating $1.5 Billon Yanukovych Allegedly Stole
Ukraine on April 28 started returning an estimated $1.5 billion in assets allegedly stolen from the Kyiv government by ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych and his associates. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
