Section: US & Canada
This Is the Cost of a Failed Impeachment
If your memory can reach back to the time before COVID-19—no shame if it can’t—you may recall the last big story before the pandemic struck: the impeachment of President Donald Trump.In December 2019, the House of Representatives impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, all stemming from a ploy in which he attempted...
It’s Time to Impeach Trump Again for His Georgia Shakedown Call
REUTERSIf there’s one thing we have learned about Donald Trump over the last four years, it’s that he’s not very creative and entirely predictable. So it’s not surprising that at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Republicans Must Now Break With Trump
“So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, ” Donald Trump told Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, during an astonishing hour-long conversation on Saturday. It was the latest gambit in the president’s effort to overturn the free and fair election in that state, which President-elect...
87-year-old Holocaust survivor goes viral for heartbreaking NYT op-ed: ‘Holocaust stole my youth. Covid-19 is stealing my last years.’
Toby Levy, a retired accountant, has gone viral for her story of surviving both the Holocaust and the COVID-19 pandemic. Levy, an 87-year-old New York resident who is also a volunteer docent for the Museum of Jewish Heritage, explained that the Holocaust stole her youth — and now the coronavirus pandemic is stealing her final years. What are the...
Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump now have competing visions for the GOP’s future: political journalist
Throughout most of Donald Trump’s presidency, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was a Trump enabler — siding with the president on everything from the Ukraine scandal to Supreme Court nominees to corporate tax cuts for the ultra-rich. But with Trump having been voted out of office, McConnell is now acknowledging Joe Biden as...
Ukraine Investigates Audio Recordings Discussing Journalist’s Murder
By Natalia ZinetsKYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian police said on Monday they were investigating documents and audio recordings dating back to 2012 about… …read more Source:: U.S....
How Russian Media Tries to Undermine Ukraine
GettyEarlier this month in a small village in western Ukraine, a group of political pranksters met to declare self-government and to fly the country’s yellow-and-blue national flag upside down as their new symbol. The tiny group of misfits, led by a former plumber named Anatoly Balakhnin, was ignored by most Ukrainians; only Radio Liberty...
Trump’s ‘Perfect Call’ to Try and Change the Georgia Election Result Is a Crime Against Democracy
REUTERSIt was not a perfect call. Indeed, it was a very imperfect one. In a move eerily reminiscent of the at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Ukraine’s Health-Care System, Economy Struggle To Cope With COVID-19
Already struggling with a simmering conflict in the east and endemic corruption, Ukraine now confronts another challenge: containing COVID-19. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
TurkStream, Russia pipeline bypassing Ukraine, advances
A major new Russian pipeline designed to bypass Ukraine to supply southeastern Europe got a major symbolic boost on New Year’s Day as Serbian President Alexandar Vucic officially proclaimed the first nearly 250 miles of the Balkan Stream natural gas pipeline to be open for business. Mr. Vucic called the … …read more Source:: The...
