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    Trump Is Attacking the Final Safeguard Against Executive Abuses
    May19

    Trump Is Attacking the Final Safeguard Against Executive Abuses

    President Donald Trump’s Friday-night firing of Steve Linick, the inspector general for the State Department, is more than a scandal about alleged abuse of office by Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state—though it is that.It’s more than a scandal about the Trump administration’s decimation of the inspector-general corps, with four...

    Trump Nominates Cleveland US Attorney To DC Post, Overseeing Flynn Case
    May19

    Trump Nominates Cleveland US Attorney To DC Post, Overseeing Flynn Case

    President Trump nominated a permanent U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on Monday, naming current U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Justin Herdman to the position. The move brings acting U.S. Attorney for D.C. Timothy Shea’s brief, fraught tenure to an end, while putting Herdman in charge of a U.S. Attorney’s...

    Harris urges GOP chairman to focus on coronavirus ahead of Biden-Burisma subpoena vote
    May18

    Harris urges GOP chairman to focus on coronavirus ahead of Biden-Burisma subpoena vote

    Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is publicly urging a key GOP chairman to focus on the coronavirus ahead of a scheduled vote on a subpoena related to a controversial investigation into Hunter Biden and Ukraine gas company Bu… …read more Source:: The...

    Where Things Stand: This Should Change The Narrative
    May18

    Where Things Stand: This Should Change The Narrative

    But it probably won’t. I wrote last week about my fascination with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s months-long crusade to use the media to pressure the secretary of state to run for Senate in Kansas. McConnell views Mike Pompeo as the ideal candidate: He has enough establishment support to unite the party in the key state...

    U.S. Tells Russia To Stop ‘Inflicting Suffering On Crimea People’
    May18

    U.S. Tells Russia To Stop ‘Inflicting Suffering On Crimea People’

    The acting U.S. ambassador to Kyiv, Kristina Kvien, has called on Russia to “stop its legacy of inflicting suffering on the people of Crimea,” as Ukraine commemorated the victims of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s mass deportation of Crimean Tatars from their homeland in 1944. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukrainian Investigators Don’t Consider Rights Activist Suspect As Hundreds Rally On His Behalf
    May18

    Ukrainian Investigators Don’t Consider Rights Activist Suspect As Hundreds Rally On His Behalf

    Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) says a noted Ukrainian civil rights activist will not be considered a suspect after a man who attacked him died. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    ‘Like a War Situation Here.’ Ukraine’s Overburdened Doctors’ Desperate COVID-19 Fight
    May18

    ‘Like a War Situation Here.’ Ukraine’s Overburdened Doctors’ Desperate COVID-19 Fight

    (CHERNIVTSI, Ukraine) — A breathing machine at a Ukrainian hospital breaks down, leaving a coronavirus patient gasping helplessly for air. Dr. Olha Kobevko rushes from room to room to see if there is an electrician among her other patients who can fix it. Eventually, she figures out a way to get the device working again on her own. “We are like...

    2016 Repeat? Trump Revives Clinton Playbook to Battle Biden
    May18

    2016 Repeat? Trump Revives Clinton Playbook to Battle Biden

    Accusations of a “deep state” conspiracy. Allegations of personal and family corruption. Painting an opponent as a Washington insider not to be trusted. It’s 2016 again. Or at least that’s President Donald Trump’s hope. Trump and his allies are dusting off the playbook that helped defeat Hillary Clinton, reviving it...

    Coffee, Crafts, Bazaars: Crimean Tatar Life Before The 1944 Deportation
    May18

    Coffee, Crafts, Bazaars: Crimean Tatar Life Before The 1944 Deportation

    In May 1944, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the mass deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population from the region to Central Asia, collectively accusing the community of collaborating with Nazi Germany. Here is a glimpse of Tatar life in the region before the deportation. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine doctors struggle with coronavirus
    May18

    Ukraine doctors struggle with coronavirus

    Doctors in Ukraine are struggling with broken or substandard equipment, a lack of drugs, low wages, all as they battle the coronavirus pandemic. (May 18) …read more Source:: USA...