Section: US & Canada
Facebook is a hotbed of impeachment disinformation, researchers say
Facebook has become a fertile breeding ground for disinformation about Congress’s impeachment inquiry, according to a new report by the civil society group Avaaz. Material seeking to discredit the probe now accounts for some of the most viral fake content on the social media platform, researchers at the group said. Of the top 100 viral...
Some Thoughts on Describing the President’s Crimes
Here are some basic thoughts about what happened in this story, what matters and how to describe it. The President used extortion to cheat in the 2020 presidential election. He used military aid dollars meant to aid an ally against his Russian patrons in order to force Ukraine to intervene in the 2020 elections, in order to remain in office by...
Pompeo Denies Former Adviser’s Claim He Stopped Statement Supporting Yovanovitch
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday narrowly denied the testimony of a top aide of his who resigned partially out of frustration that the State Department wasn’t willing to publicly support a diplomat who President Donald Trump had attacked. Michael McKinley had spent decades as a diplomat when Pompeo asked him to be a senior adviser...
Ukraine was making plans to give in to Trump’s Biden request: report
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was reportedly preparing to announce the investigation requested by President Trump into former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden in order to secure military aid withheld b… …read more Source:: The...
UN Votes Overwhelmingly to Condemn US Embargo on Cuba
The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the American economic embargo of Cuba for the 28th year, rejecting U.S. concerns about human rights on the Caribbean island. The vote in the 193-member assembly on Thursday was 187-3 with the U.S., Israel and Brazil voting “no” and Ukraine and Colombia abstaining. Last...
Donald Trump Jr. Went on ‘The View’ and It Was a Total Shitshow
It seemed almost too surreal to be true. Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle together on The View’s 5,000th episode?But there they were Thursday morning, promoting both the first son’s new book—provocatively titled at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
Pence Aide Testifies at Trump Impeachment Inquiry
A foreign affairs adviser to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence — an aide who heard President Donald Trump ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to launch an investigation to help him politically — is testifying Thursday before the impeachment inquiry targeting Trump.Jennifer Williams arrived at the Capitol for a closed-door hearing with...
Jilted Investor Goes After Deadbeat Giuliani Crony’s Bail Money
Drew Angerer/GettyLev Parnas can’t catch a break. The Soviet-born businessman who at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
This Week: Trump Hotel Spikes Prices Ahead Of Republican Senators’ Retreat
Republican senators are holding their annual retreat at a conspicuous D.C. landmark today and tomorrow: The Trump International Hotel. It’s going to cost them. The President, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and several other senators are taking part in the event, which is hosted by their official campaign arm, the National...
Sen. John Kennedy to Nancy Pelosi: ‘I don’t mean any disrespect, but it must suck to be that dumb’
Sen. John Kennedy had some terse words for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during a raucous Trump rally Wednesday night in Kennedy’s home state of Louisiana.”In three short years, President Trump has doubled the growth in the greatest economy in all of human history,” Kennedy boasted before asking, “and do you know what...
