Section: US & Canada
The 50 Best Podcasts of 2019
The scales have finally tipped: As of 2019, more than half of all teens and adults in the U.S. have listened to at least one podcast, according to one consumer survey. It has been a time of tremendous growth for the medium. This year, the industry welcomed new streaming services, such as Luminary and Spotify, the latter of which acquired Gimlet....
Trump Hostilely Dodges Question On Origins Of His Ukraine Conspiracy Theory
When asked on Christmas what Russian President Vladimir Putin might have said to convince him that Ukraine, and not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump lashed out and dodged away. “You’re putting words in somebody’s mouth,” Trump retorted, per New York Magazine. “Who are you referring to? Me? I never said...
HBO’s Chernobyl Has Led to a Surge in Tourism for This Forgotten Nuclear Town. Now, It’s Trying to Redefine Itself
Wearing a white cotton bodysuit, a helmet and a respirator to protect against radiation, tour guide Beata Jevsejeva walks briskly up the stairs to the reactor hall at the decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in the Lithuanian town of Visaginas. It’s late November and sparks fly out of the ground as mechanics saw metal to...
Ukraine Says It Has New Contracts For Second Batch Of U.S. Javelin Missiles
Deputy Defense Minister Anatoliy Petrenko says Kyiv recently concluded contracts for the delivery of a second batch of Javelin U.S. anti-tank missile systems. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Orthodox Church cuts ties with Alexandria patriarch
The Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Africa following his decision to recognize Ukraine’s new independent Orthodox Church. The Russian church’s … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: The Bellingham...
Russia Orthodox Church cuts ties with Alexandria patriarch
The Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Africa following his decision to recognize Ukraine’s new independent Orthodox Church …read more Source:: ABC...
‘Serious American’ Companies Studying Purchase Of Ukraine Motor Sich, U.S. Top Diplomat Says
William Taylor, the outgoing top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, said “serious American” companies are studying the possible purchase of Motor Sich, one of the world’s top makers of aircraft engines. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: What We Learned This Year
It’s Monday, December 23. In today’s newsletter: What we learned in the year that was. Plus, a most under-appreciated American right.*” TODAY IN POLITICS »It’s a truism in the tumult of the Trump presidency that our collective sense of time has gone haywire. The House impeachment vote was two weeks ago. With all of the...
Judicial Watch Sues CIA and DOJ for Communications of Eric Ciaramella
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against both the DOJ and CIA for communications of CIA employee Eric Ciaramella, who reportedly worked on Ukraine issues while on detail to both the Obama and Trump White Houses.The lawsuit against the DOJ was filed after it failed to...
Ukraine is ‘sending a very clear message to corrupt elites’
The instances of corruption coming to light in Ukraine these days aren’t necessarily warning signs of a country moving backward. They’re signs of progress. …read more Source:: Public Radio...
