Section: US & Canada
U.S. charges Afghan man with kidnapping former NYT reporter
Haji Najibullah was arrested in Ukraine and will appear in a Manhattan court on Wednesday afternoon. …read more Source::...
Ukraine’s Top Court Deals Critical Blow To Anti-Corruption Agency
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court has stripped the country’s anti-corruption agency of some of its critical powers. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
VIDEO: Ted Cruz rips Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over New York Post censorship
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday grilled Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s censorship of the New York Post at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on tech companies and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. At the hearing, the CEOs of Twitter, Google, and Facebook testified on whether Big Tech’s immunity from lawsuits...
Belarus minister says police could use guns during protests
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The interior minister of Belarus warned that authorities wouldn’t hesitate to approve the use of live ammunition on protesters if it’s necessary to quash more than 2 1/2 months of demonstrations against the reelection of the country’s authoritarian president. In a YouTube interview released Wednesday,...
Drone Diplomacy: Ukraine’s Plan To Build Turkish Drones
Ukraine says it plans to buy more than 40 military drones from Turkey and wants to establish a large-scale assembly plant to build the unmanned combat aircraft. It comes as the two countries signed military cooperation agreements on October 16, deepening their defense partnership, which is seen as an effort to counterbalance Russia’s...
Change of plea scheduled in Rudy Giuliani-related case
NEW YORK — A change-of-plea hearing is set for Thursday for a man charged with conspiring with associates of Rudy Giuliani, one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers, to make illegal campaign contributions. The hearing for David Correia, scheduled to occur by video, was announced in a filing Wednesday in Manhattan federal court. If it occurs...
For Filipino Journalists, Local Politics Can Be a Dangerous Beat
The phone calls came to his newsroom and his home. The person on the line told whoever answered that Joe Torres should “take care.” But the threats didn’t stop there. Armed men would follow the veteran Filipino journalist and “really show themselves.” Once, someone fired shots outside Torres’ house. At the time, Torres was covering...
The Press Is Giving Trump a Free Pass, Again
You can teach old journalists the occasional new trick, but two? Forget it.The 2016 election persuaded the press to avoid publicly presuming that Donald Trump will lose and the Democrat will win. The very cautious news coverage about Joe Biden’s chances, despite his formidable advantage in polls, makes this plain.But even though reporters...
U.S. Congressional Ukraine Caucus Worried Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Bill Could Be Dropped
Members of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus are concerned a U.S. bill to expand sanctions on a Russian natural-gas pipeline to Europe could be dropped from the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
From the Soviet Union to Indiana, Republican House Candidate Stands Against Socialist Future
Republican House candidate Victoria Spartz has made her childhood in the former Soviet Union the centerpiece of her 2020 campaign, telling Indiana voters that she is uniquely qualified to fight the growing influence of socialism in Washington, D.C. “I’m someone who grew up in a socialist system and sees where it leads to,”...
