Section: US & Canada
How the Oil Shock Will Contain Putin
Two weeks ago, the movers and shakers in the oil-producing universe tried to convince the world they were on the cusp of a truly significant agreement that would slow the financial hemorrhaging of the market. Instead, they delivered nothing more than a slight ripple in a growing, fetid pond. The Saudis with deep pockets and untold cash reserves...
Schrodinger’s Trump
One of the enduring features of the early Obama administration and the 2008/2009 global financial crisis was how quickly the Republican party pivoted to being the chief critic of efforts to clean up the mess their incumbent President and party had in many respects created. Suddenly the GOP barely knew George W. Bush and the 43rd President was...
Ukraine Offers Saakashvili Post Of Deputy Prime Minister
Ukraine’s government has offered former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili the post of deputy prime minister to supervise reforms. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Foreign ministers to confer on Ukraine peace efforts
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says he will hold a video conference next week with his Russian, Ukrainian and French counterparts to try to secure progress in efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine …read more Source:: ABC...
The Latest: Greta Thunberg urges world leaders to co-operate
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. TOP OF THE HOUR: — AP Exclusive: ER staff saves lives, suffers in hot spot. — Teen activist Greta Thunberg urges world...
You Might Get a Coronavirus Vaccine Shot in 2021—If You’re Lucky
Javier Zayas PhotographyA year before the at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Patronage and the Pandemic
In her testimony to the House Judiciary Committee last December, Stanford Law Professor Pamela Karlan floated a now-prescient hypothetical: what would we think if Trump conditioned disaster relief on a state’s willingness to go after his political opponents? Today, we are faced with the possibility that the President will use this crisis as...
Belarus reopens schools, leader rejects ‘coronapsychosis’
MINSK, Belarus — Schools reopened Monday in Belarus following an extended spring break, but authorities allowed parents to keep their children at home even though the country specifically steered clear of closures and restrictions on public movement during the coronavirus pandemic. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the...
Wildfires Burning In Ukraine’s Western Zhytomyr Region
Drone video shot on April 18 shows wildfires burning in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, about 150 kilometers west of the capital, Kyiv. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that three planes and 600 firefighters battled about 15 blazes. Smoke from the fires contributed to air pollution in Kyiv. As of April 20, Avakov said that most of the fires...
With Ukraine Already on Lockdown, Chernobyl Burns
KYIV, Ukraine—Seriously, what else could go wrong? With Ukraine still on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, massive wildfires, including one within the Chernobyl exclusion zone, sent clouds of potentially radioactive smog into Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv on Thursday—the same day an unusual sand storm hit the city. The combination...
