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Jul 03 2020
News
Senator warns of political pressure on U.S. probe into hackers of green groups
A Democratic U.S. senator says he has written to Attorney General William Barr outlining his concerns about potential “political interference” by the Trump administration in an investigation of a private espionage firm that targeted environmental groups in the United States.
Last month Reuters reported here that U.S. law enforcement was investigating aspects of a seven-year-long hack-
ReutersJun 14 2021
News
Biden gears up for showdown with 'killer' Putin on placid Lake Geneva
President Joe Biden has bluntly called Vladimir Putin a "killer" and said he "doesn't have a soul."
While he may have used robust language in the past, he is playing his cards closer to his chest ahead of the showdown with his Russian counterpart in an 18th-century Swiss villa overlooking Lake Geneva.
Landing in the U.K. last week, Biden told cheering throngs of U.S. Air Force
Washington ExaminerFeb 28 2017
News
Trump lays out his vision for America in speech to Congress
President Trump delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, laying out the agenda for his presidency and, in broad terms, his vision for the country.
Pulling from his campaign speeches and others since taking office, the president ran off a list of accomplishments since taking office and issued promises for the year ahead. Trump highlighted new lobbying
Washington PostSep 23 2019
Opinion
California Wants to Teach Your Kids That Capitalism Is Racist
California’s Education Department has issued an “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum” and is soliciting public comments on it until Aug. 15. The legislatively mandated guide is a resource for teachers who want to instruct their students in the field of “ethnic studies,” and was written by an advisory board of teachers, academics and bureaucrats. It’s as bad as you imagine.
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Guest Writer - RightDec 20 2015
News
End of Oil-Export Ban Provides Blueprint for Bipartisan Compromise
Congress abolished the 40-year ban on oil exports this past week, a victory for oil companies and conservatives that few thought conceivable until recently. One thing made it possible: supporters absorbed the lessons of the Keystone XL pipeline, whose doom was sealed when it became a political battleground.
Supporters of lifting the export ban, including oil-state Democrats, cajoled
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 15 2021
News
U.S. imposes wide array of sanctions on Russia for 'malign' actions
The United States on Thursday imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia to punish it for alleged interference in the U.S. election, cyber-hacking, bullying Ukraine and other “malign” acts.
The measures blacklisted Russian companies, expelled Russian diplomats and placed limits on the Russian sovereign debt market. More penalties could come, although Washington did not want to
ReutersApr 01 2015
News
U.S. Expands Foreign Cyberattack Retaliation Options
President Obama on Wednesday signed an executive order designed to retaliate against foreign-based cyberattacks on the United States in the latest demonstration of how the threats to national security are evolving in a world of fast-changing technology.
The order authorizes financial and travel sanctions against anyone involved in cyberattacks originating or directed from outside the
New York Times (News)Feb 03 2014
News
So What Exactly Is Obama's Red Line On Keystone XL?
In the lead-up to President Barack Obama's heavily billed speech on climate policy in June, the big question among members of the White House press corps was what, exactly, he would say about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
By that point, the fault lines on Keystone were pretty clear. Congressional Republicans were demanding it be green-lighted. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney
HuffPostJan 05 2019
News
Trump Keeps Giving Mueller Reasons to Pursue the ‘Collusion’ Probe
The special counsel is going to keep digging until Trump stops this. It’s a new year with a new Congress, but it’s the same question: When is Special Counsel Robert Mueller going to file his much-anticipated final report? My 2018 answer was: When he’s good and ready. I have a caveat for 2019, though: Maybe when President Trump stops giving him additional reasons to keep digging.
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National Review (News)Aug 27 2019
News
Almost nobody in Hong Kong under 30 identifies as “Chinese”
IN THE sea of protesters on the streets of Hong Kong in the past three months, one can sometimes spot shirts plastered with the Oxford English Dictionary’s entry for Hongkonger: “a native or inhabitant of Hong Kong”. It is a telling slogan. What began in June as opposition to an unpopular extradition bill has grown into a broader movement against the Chinese government’s influence. At its core
The Economist