Section: US & Canada
Take a wild guess who won PolitiFact fact-checkers’ ‘Lie of the Year’ award
The fact-checkers at Politifact this year have handed their annual “Lie of the Year” award to President Donald Trump and his supporters’ coronavirus denialism, including any “claims that deny, downplay or disinform about COVID-19.””President Donald J. Trump fueled confusion and conspiracies from the earliest...
What America Needs Now Is a President Who Will Go Nuclear on the Justice Department
As President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January, the Justice Department will be probing more than a few sensitive political matters. His son Hunter Biden said last week that he is under investigation for “tax affairs” by federal prosecutors in Delaware. Outgoing Attorney General Bill Barr appointed U.S. attorney John Durham as a special...
Influential Eastern Ukrainian Mayor Dies In Germany After COVID Battle
One of Ukraine’s most influential and outspoken politicians, Hennadiy Kernes, the mayor of the eastern city of Kharkiv, has died of complications from COVID-19. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Glavin: There was no ‘human error’ in Iran’s shootdown of Ukraine Airlines flight. Unfortunately, there won’t be any justice either
It isn’t easy to determine what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne or Transport Minister Marc Garneau mean, exactly, or what they genuinely expect, when they talk about seeking “accountability” from the Khomeinist regime in Iran for the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752...
Bill Barr was Trump’s biggest enabler — but his real legacy is even darker
Poor Bill Barr.After all that he did for President Trump, Barr was forced out of his job as Attorney General anyway for failing to hurl himself over a cliff as a human sacrifice. Trump wanted him to use the Department of Justice to help overturn the election which even Barr wasn’t able to finesse. And Trump just couldn’t forgive him...
A Photographic Trove Of Village Life In Postwar Ukraine
In the attic of an old house, artist Ihor Solodovnikov stumbled on a collection of 5,000 photographs taken by his grandfather. The images preserve the faces of Ukrainian villagers in the postwar period and the folk traditions that were rarely, if ever, captured by official Soviet photographers. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The House Voted a Year Ago to Impeach Trump. Here’s What You Need to Know About That.
Dec. 18 will mark one year since the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Looking back, what happened “behind the scenes” of the impeachment proceedings? Fred Lucas, the chief national affairs correspondent for The Daily Signal and author of “Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump,”...
Trump reportedly asked his lawyer if he could personally appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden before leaving office
President Trump is seen at the White House on November 26, 2020. Erin Schaff – Pool/Getty Images President Donald Trump is considering personally appointing a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden in the waning weeks of his presidency, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Trump consulted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows,...
Ukrainian Police Tear-Gas Anti-Lockdown Protesters in Kyiv’s Maidan
Ukrainian riot police used tear gas Tuesday to clear anti-lockdown protesters from the Maidan, Kyiv’s central square and backdrop for the 2014 popular uprising that toppled former President Viktor Yanukovych. Several thousand protesters, including small-business owners, rallied against a planned nationwide coronavirus lockdown slated for...
Independent Canadian report finds flaws in Iran’s probe into downing of airliner
Last month the United Nations aviation agency and Ukraine complained separately about how Iran was conducting the probe. …read more Source:: Global...
