Section: US & Canada
Federal prosecutors just charged a man with sending a death threat to the Ukraine whistleblower’s attorney that said ‘we will hunt you down’
“We have nothing but time, and you are running out of it. Keep looking over your shoulder,” the man wrote in an email last year, according to records. …read more Source:: Business...
Report: Ex-Nunes Aide Who Helped Smear Russia Probe Now Adviser To New Acting DNI
Kash Patel, Rep. Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) former top aide, is reportedly serving as an aide to acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell. Politico reported that Patel began his new role on Thursday. He previously worked for the White House’s National Security Council after he had left Nunes’ office. As Nunes’...
Bernie Sanders Is George McGovern
Let me begin with a confession. When I started to report out and write this article, I had a simple thesis: Bernie Sanders is not George McGovern. The catastrophic loser of the 1972 presidential election, McGovern has become a convenient bogeyman for any moderate or conservative arguing that leftism is a fatal disease in a general election....
Vietnam Advancing Ties With Russia to Hedge Against China, US
Scholars in Asia say Vietnam’s move this month to bolster defense ties with Russia will advance the Southeast Asian country’s pursuit of a multi-country foreign policy allowing it to depend on no single outside power.The country that has been challenged by France, the United States and China within the past decade welcomes Russian...
Violence Flares In Ukraine As Evacuees Arrive From China
A convoy carrying people recently evacuated from Wuhan, China, arrived in the Ukrainian town of Novi Sanzhary, where they were due to be held in quarantine, on February 20. A crowd of locals, fearful that the evacuees would bring the coronavirus to the town, clashed with police and tried to block the buses with burning debris. …read more...
Ukraine protesters throw rocks at bus carrying coronavirus evacuees
Protesters in Ukraine set fires, put up barricades and threw rocks at a bus carrying newly arrived coronavirus evacuees from China. South Korea also confirmed dozens of new cases of the virus, and Japan is grappling with the crisis ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games. Debora Patta reports. …read more Source::...
A ‘final attempt’ to save Confederation
Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s Politics Insider newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered straight to your inbox. When Andrew Scheer urged Justin Trudeau this week to “direct the RCMP” to end blockades strangling the nation’s railways, Trudeau and his public safety minister, Bill Blair, said they would not interfere in police...
Ukraine’s PM warns protests of China evacuees may resume
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Bernie Sanders Is No Donald Trump
As a general rule, people do not compare other people to Donald Trump as a compliment. It is plainly rude to tell another person that you see even trace amounts of Trump in them, but more to the point it is also almost always wrong. For all the try-hards on Twitter aiming to approximate his voice and the many GOP candidates wanly aping his...
Buses carrying coronavirus evacuees attacked by protesters in Ukraine
A combination of online misinformation and intensifying fears about the coronavirus has triggered violent demonstrations in Ukraine. …read more Source::...
