Section: The Washington Free Beacon (USA)
Twitter Blocks NY Post’s Hunter Biden Story, Locks Newspaper’s Account
Twitter blocked users from tweeting a New York Post report about Hunter Biden on Wednesday afternoon and soon after locked the Post‘s account, in a growing trend by predominantly left-wing technology companies to ban content with which they disagree. “@Twitter has locked @nypost,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) tweeted. “Has Twitter...
Facebook Reduces Reach of Hunter Biden Report Before Fact-Checking It
A Facebook communications director said Wednesday that the platform will be limiting the distribution of a New York Post report on Hunter Biden before it is fact checked. “While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear [sic] that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook’s third-party fact...
U.S. Will Not Recognize Reelection of Belarusian Strongman
The United States will not recognize the reelection of Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko as legitimate, a State Department spokesperson told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Wednesday. “The elections August 9 were neither free nor fair. The announced results were fraudulent and did not convey legitimacy,” the spokesperson...
McMaster: Trump is Tough on Russia
Former national security adviser for the Trump administration H.R. McMaster toured multiple media networks Tuesday, telling news anchors that President Donald Trump’s decision-making on Russia has been in large part sound. “I felt it was my duty when I was there to present the president with the best analysis from across all...
Wracked by American Sanctions, Russia Cuts Defense Spending
For the first time since 2014, Russia will spend more on resuscitating its economy than on funding its military as it suffers an economic nosedive precipitated by Western sanctions, the Financial Times reported Monday. Russia’s recently announced budget will cut defense spending by 5 percent and boost spending on social programs by 10...
Ukrainian Pipeline Explosion Has Implications for Nord Stream 2
KIEV, Ukraine—Shortly past midnight on Sept. 15, a part of the Kiev-Western Ukraine-1 natural gas transit line exploded. The site pumps natural gas from Russia across Ukraine to underground storage facilities near the border with the EU. The fact that Russian gas must cross Ukraine before it reaches customer nations in the EU has long been a sore...
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...
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...
Putin Critic Beaten in Moscow
Staunch Kremlin critic and opposition voice Yegor Zhukov was savagely beaten on the streets of Moscow by unidentified assailants Sunday night, the Washington Post reported. The thugs approached and attacked Zhukov outside of his apartment in Moscow and escaped by scooter. Zhukov was sent to the hospital following the attack, but was released with...
Goodman: Hunter Biden’s Mysterious Source of Income Creates Problems for Biden Campaign
After Hunter Biden abruptly resolved a $453,890 tax lien, Joe Biden’s campaign needs to explain the younger Biden’s source of income, Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Alana Goodman told Fox Business on Tuesday. “How did he manage to pay off this $450,000 tax lien in six days? You know, most people just don’t...
