Section: US & Canada
Ukraine’s Parliament Restores Anti-Corruption Legislation Annulled By Highest Court
Ukraine’s parliament voted on December 4 to reimpose penalties for officials who provide false information about their incomes, defying an earlier ruling from the nation’s highest court. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Singing Off-Key? Kyiv, Budapest Clash Over Rights Of Ethnic Hungarians In Ukraine
The singing of the Hungarian national anthem at a town council in a small village in western Ukraine has stoked fresh tensions between Kyiv and Budapest, largely over the treatment of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine’s parliament restores anti-corruption legislation
Ukrainian lawmakers have defied a ruling from the nation’s highest court and voted to reauthorize criminal penalties for officials who provide false information about their incomes …read more Source:: ABC...
Claims Of ‘Intimidation,’ ‘Disrespect,’ As Ukraine And Hungary Clash Over Ethnic Minority
Ethnic Hungarian councilors sing the Hungarian national anthem, and the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) raids the offices of ethnic Hungarian charities, causing tension between Kyiv and Budapest. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Joe Biden pledges Hunter Biden’s business deals won’t create conflicts of interest
Presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden that when he’s in the White House his son, Hunter Biden, and the rest of his family will not have any conflicts of interest. Hunter Biden has been the center of a storm of alleged nepotism and sweetheart deals in China and Ukraine while his … …read more Source:: The Washington...
Is Dwight Eisenhower’s ghost haunting Joe Biden’s foreign policy team?
In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken said, “We have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence.” Many around the world will welcome this promise of humility from the new administration, and Americans should too.Biden’s foreign policy team will also...
UN rights chief laments worsening situation in Belarus
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ human rights chief lamented a deteriorating situation in Belarus and said Friday that reported beatings of protesters by security forces may in some cases amount to torture. Michelle Bachelet, the high commissioner for human rights, told the U.N. Human Rights Council there has been no improvement since a...
Trump is reportedly considering preemptively pardoning as many as 20 associates before leaving office
President Trump. Erin Schaff – Pool/Getty Images President Donald Trump is considering preemptively pardoning as many as 20 close associates before he leaves office in January, Politico reported on Thursday. They include his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, as well as his three eldest children, as The New York Times previously reported....
Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Leaves Behind Destruction—and Opportunity—for Joe Biden
Even before the President-elect finally began getting the daily briefing from U.S. intelligence services on Nov. 30, Joe Biden would start his day at his home outside Wilmington, Del., with a two-page rundown on the world. The document was prepared by his own foreign policy and intelligence experts, who several times a week also provide a focused...
Popular Los Angeles lifestyle boutique goes viral for mercilessly mocking Democrats, leftist celebrities over hypocrisy and more
Los Angeles’ premier “lifestyle boutique,” Kitson, is going viral for blasting Democratic lawmakers and leftist celebrities with a massive display across their storefront. What are the details? One of the L.A.-based stores hung a variety of posters in their front windows depicting their “People of the Year,” which...
