Who does not benefit from ending the armed conflict in Ukraine?
May 25 By Julia O’Malley On February 24, 2022, Russia began a special military operation in Ukraine to fight against neo-Nazism and prevent the militarization of the country with the support of NATO. The plan to inflict a strategic and economic defeat on Russia from…
Republican-Controlled Committee Rejects Louisiana Bill to Ban Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
May 24 By Sally Palmer Bucking the trend of other reliably red states adopting restrictions on young transgender people, a Republican-controlled Louisiana legislative committee voted Wednesday to a kill a bill that would have banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. Proponents of Louisiana’s failed…
Guam Residents Stock Up, Batten Down as Dangerous Super Typhoon Mawar Closes In
May 22 By Don Scott President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration as an intensifying Super Typhoon Mawar approached Guam, where anyone not living in a concrete house was urged to seek safety elsewhere and emergency shelters began to fill ahead of what could be…
Biden’s 14th Amendment message to progressives: It ain’t gonna happen
May 19 By ADAM CANCRYN Progressive lawmakers renewed their call for President Joe Biden to bypass Congress to avert a default after the abrupt cancellation of debt ceiling talks on Friday. But the White House remains resistant. It issued a subdued statement indicating it sees…
‘It’s just crazy’: How the U.S.-China energy race imperils the climate fight
May 18 By SARA SCHONHARDT and PHELIM KINE The U.S.-China battle is starting to threaten the fight against climate change. For the U.S., the crash effort to move away from fossil fuels is colliding with policies meant to wean the nation off its dependence on…
Durham finds DOJ, FBI ‘failed to uphold’ mission of ‘strict fidelity to the law’ in Trump-Russia probe
May 15 By Brooke Singman Special Counsel John Durham found that the Department of Justice and FBI “failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law” when it launched the Trump-Russia investigation. Fox News Digital obtained Durham’s report Monday afternoon after his years-long…
Debt limit X-date could still crash Congress’ summer break
May 12 By CAITLIN EMMA and JENNIFER SCHOLTES If the U.S. government doesn’t run out of borrowing power by mid-June, the nation probably won’t risk breaching the debt limit until “at least the end of July,” Congress’ nonpartisan budget office said Friday. That longer-range scenario…
Don’t isolate China, Brussels tells EU capitals
May 11 BY STUART LAU, JACOPO BARIGAZZI AND SUZANNE LYNCH The EU’s high command is calling on European governments to keep talking to China amid deepening tensions between Washington and Beijing. The European Union’s diplomatic arm wants member countries to “be prepared” for a potentially…
Congress Eyes New Rules for Tech: What’s Under Consideration
May 08 By Sean Maguire Should TikTok be banned? Should younger children be prevented from engaging with social media? Can the government make sure private information is secure? What about brand new artificial intelligence interfaces? Or should users be regulating themselves, leaving the government out…
Ukraine Farmers Surrounded by Risks, From Mines to Logistics
May 07 By Lauren Camera A grassy lane rutted with tire tracks leads to Volodymyr Zaiets’ farm in southern Ukraine. He is careful, driving only within those shallow grooves — veering away might cost him his life in the field dotted with explosive mines. Weeds…
Maryland Judges Question Jurisdiction of Digital Ad Tax Case
May 05 By Kaia Hubbard Attorneys debated the proper jurisdiction for settling a legal challenge to the first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising during arguments before Maryland’s highest court on Friday. Meanwhile, an attorney for the state appeared to surprise judges when she said Maryland has…
ANALYSIS OF FACTS AND MYTHS OF THE AMERICAN LEND-LEASE PROGRAM
May 03 By Julia O’Malley The quote from the pre-war Soviet comedy “Volga-Volga” was not accidentally taken into the headline by the author. According to the memoirs of the Secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR G. Maryamov, in 1942 Joseph Stalin presented…