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    Ukraine, Russia-Backed Separatists Agree On Pre-Easter Prisoner Swap
    Apr09

    Ukraine, Russia-Backed Separatists Agree On Pre-Easter Prisoner Swap

    Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country have agreed to a prisoner swap before April 19. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Republican, Democratic senators press Trump for more on IG’s firing
    Apr09

    Republican, Democratic senators press Trump for more on IG’s firing

    The senators want a written explanation for the removal of the intelligence community inspector general who flagged the Ukraine complaint. …read more Source::...

    Procurement Nightmare: The Wasted Weeks Of Ukraine’s Coronavirus Response
    Apr08

    Procurement Nightmare: The Wasted Weeks Of Ukraine’s Coronavirus Response

    As the coronavirus bore down on Ukraine, the head of the state medical procurement company sought to set up orders of vital supplies. He says he was thwarted by a now-dismissed health minister who seemed more interested in getting a chosen candidate installed as his deputy — despite a recent conviction for shoplifting Snickers bars, caviar,...

    Trump Challenges Authority, Independence of Agency Watchdogs
    Apr08

    Trump Challenges Authority, Independence of Agency Watchdogs

    President Donald Trump is moving aggressively to challenge the authority and independence of agency watchdogs overseeing his administration, including removing the inspector general tasked with overseeing the $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package that passed Congress with bipartisan support. In four days, Trump has fired one inspector general...

    The Coronavirus Has Not Halted Trump’s Power Grab
    Apr08

    The Coronavirus Has Not Halted Trump’s Power Grab

    An hour or so into Monday’s daily presidential briefing on the coronavirus pandemic, Trump declared that his political opponents should “not be allowed” to win the 2020 presidential election.Democrats “want to make Trump look as bad as they can, because they want to try and win an election that they shouldn’t be allowed to win based...

    Trump Ousts Watchdog for Coronavirus Rescue Spending
    Apr08

    Trump Ousts Watchdog for Coronavirus Rescue Spending

    U.S. President Donald Trump has removed the independent watchdog overseeing the management of the country’s $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package, the second inspector general he has ousted in recent days. Trump pushed out Glenn Fine, the acting inspector general at the Pentagon for the past four years, from the coronavirus spending...

    Opinion: Get Over COVID
    Apr07

    Opinion: Get Over COVID

    When the barley dries my dear The sun will wake the dead Recent Stories in Parody Opinion: Get Over COVID 10 Common Sense Solutions to the Economic Crisis Caused by China The Nonpartisan Guide to Surviving Wuhan Bat Plague And no man’s field will want for grain When the barley dries You people have no idea how good you have it. I wish we...

    Ukraine Fights Fires in Chernobyl Zone, Says no Radiation Jump
    Apr07

    Ukraine Fights Fires in Chernobyl Zone, Says no Radiation Jump

    Local authorities in Ukraine have dismissed residents’ concerns that forest fires near the Chernobyl nuclear power station have led to unsafe radiation levels.The radiation levels in the capital Kyiv and the exclusion zone established around the plant in 1986, after an explosion there that caused the world’s worst nuclear accident,...

    This Is Trump’s Fault
    Apr07

    This Is Trump’s Fault

    “I don’t take responsibility at all,” said President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden on March 13. Those words will probably end up as the epitaph of his presidency, the single sentence that sums it all up.Trump now fancies himself a “wartime president.” How is his war going? By the end of March, the coronavirus had killed more Americans...

    China Swoops in to Help Ukraine Fight Coronavirus
    Apr07

    China Swoops in to Help Ukraine Fight Coronavirus

    KYIV, Ukraine—China has been front and center in helping Ukraine respond to its coronavirus outbreak, underscoring what some say is Beijing’s global gambit to exploit the pandemic for geopolitical gain and exonerate itself for allowing the disease to spread. “China is trying to shape the post-outbreak world, even as it has lied to the...