Section: The Daily Beast (USA)
The Child-Rape Holocaust Movie That’s Causing Festival Walkouts
TIFFTORONTO—It’s a little surprising that a fair number of brutal scenes in The Painted Bird, Václav Marhoul’s grim Holocaust epic, provoked—according to at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Trump Raids Funds Meant to Deter Russia to Pay for His Wall
Chip Somodevilla/GettyThe Trump administration’s move to divert billions of dollars intended for military construction projects in order to finance a border wall with Mexico sparked outrage last week, with cuts to things like funding at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Russia and Ukraine Swap Prisoners in a Victory for Diplomacy
Gleb Garanich/REUTERSMOSCOW—What happened on Saturday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a unique moment in the five-year long conflict and it was a real victory of diplomacy. The two politicians, one a former KGB officer, another a former comedian, managed to keep their promises to each other...
This Senator Tried to Make Nice With Russia. It Shut Him Out.
Drew Angerer/GettyEarly this week, two Senators—Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chris Murphy (D-CT)—announced that the government of Russia had blocked them from entering the country for a planned official visit. The snub represented an abrupt turn of events, especially for Johnson. Just last year, the Wisconsin Republican had visited Moscow and then...
With Trump as a Member, What’s the Point of the G7 Club?
Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via GettyThe G7 used to be a very exclusive club. To join, you had to be asked, and to be asked you had to preside over one of the richest industrial nations in the world. But that wasn’t enough. Your government had to be a democracy fundamentally committed to human rights, free speech, the rule of law,...
Trump at G7 Blames Everybody but Putin for Crimea Annexation
President Donald Trump on Monday concluded at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source: The Daily...
Amazon Fires Expose Global Bad Actors — What Will We Do About Them?
Ueslei Marcelino/ReutersOur collective response to the burning of the Amazon—the Earth’s most valuable carbon dioxide-sucking asset—has made clear it’s time for a new geopolitical handbook to address the climate emergency. When Iran threatened to develop nuclear weapons, the U.S. at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Sen. Rand Paul Fights Sanctions on Russian Pipeline
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Nord Stream 2/GettyAdvocates for a massive Russian natural gas pipeline project have a powerful, quiet ally in Congress: Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican and at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Epstein Loses His Famous Fellow Inmates as Manafort and El Chapo Head to New Lockups
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettyPaul Manafort, President Trump’s ex-campaign chairman, is no longer Jeffrey Epstein’s fellow inmate at a federal prison in Manhattan, The Daily Beast has learned.Last week, the 70-year-old Manafort was moved from the Metropolitan Correctional Center to FCI Loretto in Pennsylvania,...
Neo-Nazis’ Air-to-Air Missile: An Explosive New Clue to Salvini’s Intrigues With the Russians
Tino Romano/APROME—Italian police say they knew they were onto something big when they caught two Neo-Nazi sympathizers discussing the latest weapon in their arsenal on a tapped WhatsApp thread. And when the cops started seeing chatter the group was moving the weapon close to an airport near the northern city of Turin, they pounced. They found a...
