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Myroslava Gongadze (Dmitri Savchuk) I’ve been thinking about Ukrainians I have known and learned from. I went to Ukraine to report near the end of 2019. I wanted to ask a question (among others): How does it feel to be swept up in an American political drama? President Trump was on the verge of his
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While speaking to members of the Ukrainian community in Canada on Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke of “slippage” in democracies across the globe, saying that nations have been embracing “slightly more authoritarian leaders.” Trudeau said that, “we see a bit of a slippage in our democracies,” with nations “turning towards slightly more authoritarian
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The wife of WNBA star and Russian captive Brittney Griner says that she and Griner’s team are tirelessly working to get the basketball star home after the celebrated Olympian was detained at a Russian airport at least three weeks ago for reportedly having a cannabis-filled vape pen on her person. The longer Griner spends incarcerated
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New York Times’ theatre critic Laura Collins-Hughes’ reviews from London’s West End have sadly devolved into anxious screeds about COVID and masks, those cloth talismans of liberal moral superiority that she flaunts like a Trump fan would wear a MAGA hat. Admittedly she had bad luck in London in September 2021 upon her return to reviewing
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Robert J. O’Neill, the former U.S. Navy SEAL that killed Osama bin Laden, is blasting Senator Lindsey Graham over his call for someone to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin. Speaking to TMZ, O’Neill said that as a Senator, Graham shouldn’t have made those comments. “As a sitting Senator, that’s not, he shouldn’t be saying that,
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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro addresses the media from the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, August 16, 2021. (Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters) On Saturday, the New York Times reported that senior White House and State Department officials were in Caracas engaging in conversations with the Maduro regime. The U.S. has not recognized the regime since dissolving diplomatic
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky makes a statement in Kyiv, February 25, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / Handout via Reuters) By video hookup, the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, addressed throngs of supporters in Prague. He said, “If we win — and I’m sure we will win — this will be a victory of the whole democratic
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Fast food giants McDonald’s and PepsiCo are facing calls to cut business ties with Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Insider reported that Thomas DiNapoli, the New York state comptroller, urged American companies to rethink their preexisting business relationships with Russia because they face “significant and growing legal, compliance, operational, human rights and
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The Idaho House has passed a bill to ban vaccine passports in the state. In a statement from House Republicans, they said that the aim of the bill is to “ensure that all Idahoans, regardless of vaccination status, can access state services, buildings, or jobs.” “Our government exists to serve every single Idahoan – regardless
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UnionPay, a Chinese credit card company, displays on the exhibit hall floor during the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas, Nev., October 24, 2017. (Steve Marcus/Reuters) Multiple Russian banks on Sunday announced plans to begin issuing cards using a Chinese card operator’s system with Russia’s Mir network after Visa and MasterCard pulled out of Russia.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in Biden v. Texas, an appeal filed by President Joe Biden’s Justice Department of a lower court ruling in favor of Texas and Missouri. The appeal seeks to end a policy that’s essential to deterring fraudulent asylum claims by aliens.  It involves former President Donald Trump’s
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A U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, flies over Siauliai Air Base, Lithuania, March 2, 2022. (Senior Airman John R. Wright/USAF) In response to We Can’t Afford a $1 Trillion Defense Budget In response to Rich’s call for a drastically increased defense budget ($1
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Russian invaders have reportedly fired rockets at a Kharkiv, Ukraine, physics institute — a building that is said to house a nuclear reactor and more. What are the details? According to a Sunday report from The Independent, Ukraine’s national security service has claimed that forces have been firing rockets at the institute, which they say
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced his support for Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s viral social media post calling for America to immediately increase its domestic energy source output. What’s a brief history here? Musk on Friday took to Twitter to speak out about the necessity of increasing domestic oil and gas output to combat
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As Russia keeps increasing its attacks on Ukraine, the partisan finger-pointing continues here at home. On Sunday’s This Week on ABC, the “PowerHouse Roundtable” got heated when Former New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie rightly blamed President Joe Biden for the current situation in Ukraine. Anchor George Stephanopoulos started off the firestorm by asking Christie
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