Section: US & Canada
US Contributions to 3 Seas Investment Fund Are Smart, Strategic
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation recently approved a $300 million investment in the Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund. That welcome Dec. 10 announcement partially fulfills a U.S. pledge made back in February by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to invest up to $1 billion in the investment fund to finance energy projects via...
Ukrainian Chess Clubs Get Boost From Netflix Hit Queen’s Gambit
Chess clubs in Ukraine are reporting a surge in interest inspired by the hot Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit. Appropriately, there’s been especially strong interest among girls. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Election law expert breaks down the legal case for impeaching Trump over call to Georgia Secretary of State
President Donald Trump’s latest desperate plea to overturn the presidential election has led one American scholar to lay out the legal case against the president over his call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. In an article for Slate, Richard Hasen, an American legal scholar and election law expert, explained how Trump...
Nihilism Is Destroying Our Democracy
Members of Congress will gather tomorrow to count electoral votes and establish Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. Usually, this is a pro forma process without much excitement. But a handful of Republicans in the House and Senate are planning to feed President Donald Trump’s delusions of voter fraud by formally contesting...
A leaked recording exposed Belarus plotting assassinations in Europe
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Associated Press On Monday, the EUobserver news site published an audio file of a 2012 conversation in which the then-leader of the Belarus KGB could be heard planning dissidents’ assassinations in Germany. Vadim Zaitsev could be heard planning the murders while citing pressure from Alexander...
From profiles in courage to profiles in sore losing: The GOP’s open sedition and clumsy coup is a crime
Ever since it first was published in 1956, there has been a joke about John F. Kennedy’s book Profiles in Courage (largely ghosted by speechwriter and advisor Ted Sorensen), historical portraits of eight US senators who demonstrated bravery in the face of enormous political opposition.Kennedy himself and others kidded that the volume would...
Stephen Colbert Goes Off on Trump for ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Georgia Call
CBSIn his first Late Show monologue of the new year, Stephen Colbert went all-in on President Donald Trump’s at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Families of downed Ukrainian Flight 752 victims struggle with loss a year later
A broken cellphone and a muddied wallet were the only possessions Alireza Ghandchi received from Iran after his wife and two children were killed in a Ukrainian plane crash last year. “No luggage, no dolls, no anything,” he said. His son, Daniel, was eight-years-old and his daughter, Dorsa, was just three days shy of turning 16. The...
Susan Collins refuted: Trump never learned his lesson
One of the most soul-taxing aspects of the Donald Trump era is how much it’s like living in a political version of “Groundhog Day.” We endure variations of the same handful of scandals over and over again until we’re numb and unable to tell what happened one day from the next. The result is a weird time dilation, where the...
The Atlantic Daily: Mitch McConnell’s Slippery Grip on the GOP
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.LAMBERT / GETTYIn his latest attempt to undermine the results of the 2020 election, President Donald Trump turned to a familiar medium: the...
