Section: US & Canada
These are the new faces of Trudeau’s refreshed cabinet
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced new changes to his cabinet this afternoon, with an eye to preparing his government for the incoming Trump administration. Between the foreign affairs minister who’s banned from Russia to the new ambassador to the European Union who hasn’t even accepted the job yet, here’s what you need to...
Rex Tillerson Senate confirmation hearings: what the Senate needs to ask
When he sits down Wednesday for his confirmation hearing, Secretary of State-nominee Rex Tillerson will immediately become one of the most unusual picks to be the America’s top diplomat in recent US history. A former ExxonMobil CEO, Rex Tillerson has no experience inside the US government and a long record of working with foreign powers,...
Trudeau shuffles cabinet, Freeland named top Canada diplomat
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has shaken up his cabinet less than two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president. Trudeau on Tuesday named Chrystia Freeland as Canada’s new foreign minister amid worries Trump will renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. Freeland was trade minister...
Trump wants health care law swiftly replaced
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on activities in Congress: (All times EST): 2:09 p.m. President-elect Donald Trump is pushing for an immediate repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, contradicting the wishes of some in his own party. Some Republican lawmakers want to quickly repeal President Barack Obama’s signature legislative...
Some Senate Republicans are trying to stop Trump from lifting sanctions on Russia
President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear that he wants to build closer ties with Russia. But it’s been difficult to gauge how much his own party, traditionally distrustful of and hostile toward Moscow, is on board with the pivot. The fact that five Republican senators are now backing a new bill — led by a Democrat — to slap additional...
Monument to WWII Massacre of Poles Ransacked in Ukraine
A monument to the victims of a World War II massacre in a western Ukrainian village has been destroyed by vandals, local police said on Tuesday. National Police in the Lviv region said in a statement that vandals destroyed a stone cross in Huta Pieniacka that commemorated Polish villagers who were massacred in 1944 by a Nazi unit mostly composed...
Top Senators will introduce legislation to impose more sanctions on Russia over hacking, Syria, and Ukraine
Republican Sen. John McCain along with several other senators are expected to sponsor the legislation, increasing its chances of becoming a law. …read more Source: Business...
Savchenko Publishes ‘Prisoner’ Lists, Angering Ukrainian Authorities
Ukrainian lawmaker Nadia Savchenko has published the names of hundreds of people who have been taken captive or gone missing during the nearly three-year-old war in eastern Ukraine, ignoring appeals by authorities to keep the information secret. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Monument to WWII massacre of Poles ransacked in Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — A monument to the victims of a World War II massacre in a western Ukrainian village has been destroyed by vandals, local police said on Tuesday. National Police in the Lviv region said in a statement that vandals destroyed a stone cross in Huta Penyatska that commemorated Polish villagers who were massacred in 1944 by a Nazi unit...
U.S. Senators Look To Cement Ukraine-Related Sanctions On Russia
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators are pushing new legislation that would cement into U.S. law the sanctions imposed on Russia for its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
