Section: US & Canada
President Trump appears unable to make a substantive case for the AHCA
When he tries to sell it, he either talks politics or says Obamacare is bad. The fate of the Republican health bill in the House could rest on President Donald Trump’s salesmanship. He pitched himself as the ultimate deal-maker during the campaign, and Speaker Paul Ryan’s office has lately been hyping him up as “the ultimate closer.”...
Devin Nunes’s Curiously Selective Memory
Representative Devin Nunes, a Republican, is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He is therefore leading a key probe into whether or not Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had ties to Russian meddling in the 2016 election.Can an inquiry he leads be trusted?The skeptics include Evan McMullin, the former CIA operative who launched...
Ukraine Bars Russia’s Eurovision Contestant Over Crimea Visit
Ukraine’s main state security agency says it has barred the Russia’s contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest from entering the country. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Bars Russia’s Eurovision Contestant Over Crimea Visit
Ukraine’s main state security agency says it has barred the Russia’s contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest from entering the country. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to benefit Putin
Donald Trump faces yet another Russian controversy. An explosive investigation by AP Wednesday revealed that the president’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly worked for a Russian oligarch to help advance the interests of Vladimir Putin. Manafort, who has strenuously denied ever working for the Kremlin, has labelled the latest...
AP Exclusive: Manafort had plan to benefit Putin government
By JEFF HORWITZ and CHAD DAY WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The...
Fears Of Mass Property Confiscation In Donbas
A new regulation approved by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has sparked fears that apartments abandoned by people who fled the fighting in the region could be seized on a mass scale. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine: Documents ready to ban Russia’s Eurovision entry
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine’s security service says it has prepared documents to ban Russia’s contestant from this year’s Eurovision song contest, but that a final decision has not been made. …read more Source: CNS...
Ukraine: Documents Ready to Ban Russia’s Eurovision Entry
Ukraine’s security service says it has prepared documents to ban Russia’s contestant from this year’s Eurovision song contest, but that a final decision has not been made.Russia chose Yulia Samoylova to represent the country in the May 11-13 contest in Kiev.But Samoylova… …read more Source:...
Ukraine: Documents Ready to Ban Russia’s Eurovision Entry
Ukraine’s security service says it has prepared documents to ban Russia’s contestant from this year’s Eurovision song contest, but that a final decision has not been made. …read more Source: U.S....
