Section: US & Canada
Schumer Urges All Department Watchdogs To Investigate Whistleblower Retaliation
On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) requested all 74 inspectors general, including the Defense Department IG, to investigate retaliation against whistleblowers after President Donald Trump got key impeachment witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman kicked out of the National Security Council last week. “Although LTC Vindman lived up...
UK calls virus ‘serious’ health threat; will detain people
LONDON (AP) — Britain has declared the new coronavirus that emerged from China a “serious and imminent threat to public health” and announced new measures Monday to combat the spread of the disease. The U.K. Department of Health and Social Care said people with the virus can now be forcibly quarantined and will not be free to leave. It named two...
65 More Coronavirus Cases On Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Stuck In Japan
The new cases include 45 Japanese and 11 Americans, as well as smaller numbers of people from Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines and Ukraine. (Image credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images) …read more Source::...
What Is Mike Pompeo Doing With Europe’s Last Dictator?
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettyBelarus is often called Europe’s last dictatorship, and its president, at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
Shrinking Country: Serbia Struggles With Population Decline
BLAGOJEV KAMEN, SERBIA — Uros Trainovic remembers when his small mining village in eastern Serbia was a vibrant home to 200 families, had a school of its own, a doctor and a shop.How times have changed. Now, 60-odd years later, it’s a ghost village with just eight residents.The transformation of Blagojev Kamen is not unique in a country...
Zelensky wants to break oligarchs’ grip on Ukraine. But at least one was once a pal.
How the president deals with mogul Ihor Kolomoisky may define his wider anti-corruption aims. …read more Source:: The Washington...
Kyiv Names Willow Tree After Soviet Rock Legend Viktor Tsoi
Kyiv City Council has granted a decades-old willow the status of a botanical monument in honor of Soviet rock legend Viktor Tsoi in the same neighborhood where he was filmed in a movie shot in Ukraine’s capital. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump to Propose Cuts in Foreign Aid, Social Safety Nets in Budget, Officials Say
U.S. President Donald Trump will propose on Monday a 21% cut in foreign aid and slashes to social safety net programs in his $4.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2021, according to senior administration officials.The budget will seek an increase in funds to counter developing economic threats from China and Russia, but will also raise funds...
Iran Launches Satellite But It Fails to Reach Earth’s Orbit
Iranian state television reports Sunday that Iran failed in an attempt to launch an Iranian-made Zafar satellite into the Earth’s orbit.Ahmad Hosseini, a spokesman for the Iranian Defense Ministry’s space program, told state TV that “the Zafar satellite did not reach orbit as planned” because it did not reach the necessary...
Giuliani: You’ll See What Trump Did Was ‘Perfectly Justifiable’ Over Next Couple Months
Rudy Giuliani argued that the public will soon see that President Trump’s Ukraine pressure campaign was “perfectly justifiable” even after his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial. During an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo Sunday morning, Giuliani called Trump’s acquittal “wonderful but it never should have...
