Section: US & Canada
Trump Ousts Watchdog for Coronavirus Rescue Spending
U.S. President Donald Trump has removed the independent watchdog overseeing the management of the country’s $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package, the second inspector general he has ousted in recent days. Trump pushed out Glenn Fine, the acting inspector general at the Pentagon for the past four years, from the coronavirus spending...
Opinion: Get Over COVID
When the barley dries my dear The sun will wake the dead Recent Stories in Parody Opinion: Get Over COVID 10 Common Sense Solutions to the Economic Crisis Caused by China The Nonpartisan Guide to Surviving Wuhan Bat Plague And no man’s field will want for grain When the barley dries You people have no idea how good you have it. I wish we...
Ukraine Fights Fires in Chernobyl Zone, Says no Radiation Jump
Local authorities in Ukraine have dismissed residents’ concerns that forest fires near the Chernobyl nuclear power station have led to unsafe radiation levels.The radiation levels in the capital Kyiv and the exclusion zone established around the plant in 1986, after an explosion there that caused the world’s worst nuclear accident,...
This Is Trump’s Fault
“I don’t take responsibility at all,” said President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden on March 13. Those words will probably end up as the epitaph of his presidency, the single sentence that sums it all up.Trump now fancies himself a “wartime president.” How is his war going? By the end of March, the coronavirus had killed more Americans...
China Swoops in to Help Ukraine Fight Coronavirus
KYIV, Ukraine—China has been front and center in helping Ukraine respond to its coronavirus outbreak, underscoring what some say is Beijing’s global gambit to exploit the pandemic for geopolitical gain and exonerate itself for allowing the disease to spread. “China is trying to shape the post-outbreak world, even as it has lied to the...
Chernobyl radiation levels spike dramatically as forest fires burn in exclusion zone
Fires in Ukraine are more dangerous around Chernobyl, as the trees and plant life are still irradiated from the 1986 nuclear disaster. …read more Source::...
Opinion: The Coronavirus Crisis Presents An Opportunity To End War In Ukraine
“Especially during a pandemic, it is insanity for Russian-led forces and Ukrainians to be killing each other,” write former U.S. envoys to Ukraine William B. Taylor, Steven Pifer and John E. Herbst.(Image credit: Evgeniya Maksymova/AFP via Getty Images) …read more Source::...
Kyiv Police Make Arrests Following Tougher Quarantine Measures
There were some tense moments in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, when police blocked access to a popular sports and recreation ground. It came after Ukraine’s government intensified lockdown measures on April 6 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Police officers blocked the bridge to Kyiv’s Hydropark, a popular island sports ground...
Michael Atkinson speaks out, implies that Trump was politically motivated in firing him
Michael Atkinson, the former inspector general of the intelligence community whom President Donald Trump fired last week, spoke out on Sunday about his sudden ousting.In a lengthy statement, Atkinson implied that Trump’s decision to fire him was politically motivated.”It is hard not to think that the President’s loss of...
Wildfire near Chernobyl releases spike in radiation
A weekend wildfire in a forest inside the shuttered Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s exclusion zone in Ukraine caused radiation to spike in the area. …read more Source:: United Press...
