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    State Dept. officials monitored Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, Fox News hosts’ social media accounts in the early days of the Ukraine scandal
    Sep02

    State Dept. officials monitored Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, Fox News hosts’ social media accounts in the early days of the Ukraine scandal

    Officials at the United States Embassy in Kyiv may have broken federal law by launching an effort to monitor the social media accounts of 13 prominent Americans at the start of the Ukraine scandal in 2019, newly released State Department memos show. According to a Just the News report by journalist John Solomon — who worked for The Hill at the...

    The Republicans’ Absurd Quest to Turn Biden Into Trump
    Sep02

    The Republicans’ Absurd Quest to Turn Biden Into Trump

    Earlier this week, Joe Biden spoke about the recent protests and violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The crux of his remarks—and an emerging theme of his campaign—was a simple question: “Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?” he asked. Conservative commentators leapt into action.“The ‘blackmail...

    Putin Critic Navalny Was Poisoned With Novichok, Germany Says
    Sep02

    Putin Critic Navalny Was Poisoned With Novichok, Germany Says

    By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) – A critic of President Vladimir Putin who fell into a coma in Russia and is being treated in Berlin was attacked with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent, a German government spokesman said on Wednesday. Recent Stories in Latest News Putin Critic Navalny Was Poisoned With Novichok, Germany Says Chicago Shootings...

    US Vows Continued Support for Freedom in Belarus
    Sep02

    US Vows Continued Support for Freedom in Belarus

    U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun says Washington and its European partners will continue to press Belarusian authorities to free political prisoners, end violence against protesters, and allow citizens to choose their government through a free and fair election.Speaking in an interview with RFE/RL by telephone on September 1...

    Police in Ukraine investigate beating of Israeli pilgrim
    Sep02

    Police in Ukraine investigate beating of Israeli pilgrim

    Ukrainian police are investigating the beating of an Israeli man, who was beaten by local residents during a pilgrimage to a Ukrainian town …read more Source:: ABC...

    Belarusian journalists face charges for covering protests
    Sep02

    Belarusian journalists face charges for covering protests

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of journalists gathered Wednesday outside a police station in the capital of Belarus to protest the detention of colleagues covering a demonstration against the nation’s authoritarian president and an election the opposition sees as rigged. Police detained eight journalists from Belarusian news outlets Tuesday on...

    Russia Accuses Ukraine Over Crisis in Belarus, Says It Won’t Engage With Opposition Council
    Sep02

    Russia Accuses Ukraine Over Crisis in Belarus, Says It Won’t Engage With Opposition Council

    MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of fomenting trouble in neighboring Belarus, and said Moscow saw no point… …read more Source:: U.S....

    Hunter Biden Holds Stake in Chinese Company Sanctioned for Human-Rights Abuses
    Sep02

    Hunter Biden Holds Stake in Chinese Company Sanctioned for Human-Rights Abuses

    Hunter Biden holds a stake in a Chinese surveillance company that is under U.S. sanctions for human-rights violations, complicating his father Joe Biden’s campaign promise to crack down on American businesses with financial ties to China’s humanitarian abuses. Bohai Harvest RST Shanghai Equity, an investment firm that Hunter Biden...

    Turkey-Greece Maritime Squabble Risks Unfortunate War
    Sep01

    Turkey-Greece Maritime Squabble Risks Unfortunate War

    It was the Greeks’ first military clash with their onetime colonial overlords, the Turks, since they had secured their independence from the Ottoman Empire half a century earlier. For thirty days in 1897, the eastern Mediterranean rivals skirmished over the status of Crete, whose Greek majority population also wanted independence. The...

    Read Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ‘Women’s Rights’ Speech From 1995
    Sep01

    Read Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ‘Women’s Rights’ Speech From 1995

    Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered the following address to the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women, in Beijing, 25 years ago. Then the first lady of the United States, Clinton famously declared that “women’s rights are human rights,” while criticizing the Chinese government’s coercive...