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Tucker Carlson accused news outlets of lying about Ukraine. Acosta has the facts – CNN Video CNN April 11, 2022 CNN’s Jim Acosta sets the record straight about the devastation and destruction from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after Fox host Tucker Carlson accused US news outlets of repeating lies about the conflict. Continue Reading…..
Biden ‘doesn’t currently have any plans’ to travel to Ukraine despite Boris Johnson visit, WH says By Jon Brown Fox News April 11, 2022 National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday that President Biden has no plans to visit Ukraine, despite a recent visit to the country from U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “It was quite the symbol to see Prime Minister Boris Johnson walking the streets of Kyiv with President Zelenskyy,” NBC host Chuck Todd told Sullivan. “It raises the question: are we going see President Biden in Kyiv?” “President Biden doesn’t currently have any plans to…
McConnell: If Republicans retake Congress, ‘we’ll make sure Joe Biden is a moderate’ The Hill April 10, 2022 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vowed on Sunday that Republicans would “make sure Joe Biden is a moderate” if they retake Congress in the midterm elections later this year. “Well our agenda next year, if we’re fortunate to be in a majority, will be focused on exactly what you and I’ve been talking about. Crime, education, beefing up the defense of our country,” McConnell told Fox News anchor Dana Perino on “Fox News Sunday.” “We got big power competition…
A former federal prosecutor said Ivanka Trump’s Jan. 6 testimony likely ‘incriminated’ her father for his role in the Capitol riot By Yelena Dzhanova Business Insider April 10, 2022 A former federal prosecutor believes Ivanka Trump’s testimony to the House committee investigating the Capitol riot “incriminated” the former president. Her testimony likely included the revelation that she was present at the White House during the riot and tried to get her father to call off his supporters, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said on Friday on “The Stephanie Miller Show.” But Trump refused, according to former Trump national…
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Appeals court revives Biden vaccine mandate for federal employees By Tierney Sneed CNN April 8, 2022 (CNN)The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday revived President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for federal executive branch employees, lifting a district court’s January injunction that had halted the requirement and ordering the lower court to dismiss the case. The majority on a three-member panel said that under the Civil Service Reform Act — which Congress passed in 1978 to streamline the process of settling workplace disputes brought by federal employees — the lower court did not have jurisdiction to…
By Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney POLITICO April 7, 2022 A judge has issued the first outright acquittal of a defendant charged in the Capitol riot. Following a two-day bench trial in U.S. District Court in Washington, New Mexico engineer Matthew Martin was acquitted Wednesday on four misdemeanor charges by U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden. Martin claimed that he thought the police had allowed him into an entrance near the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021. McFadden said that, based on video of the scene, that assertion was at least “plausible” and that prosecutors failed to prove the case…
Ukraine president asks Jewish people around world to speak against Russia By Shaun Walker the Guardian April 7, 2022 Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has appealed to Jewish people across the world to speak out against the Russian assault on his country, a day after a missile hit close to a Holocaust memorial site in the capital, Kyiv. The missile strike on Tuesday hit Kyiv’s television tower, reportedly killing at least five people. The tower is located close to the memorial site of Babyn Yar, the ravine where Nazi soldiers massacred up to 150,000 people during the second world…
Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Abound Around Russian Assault on Ukraine Anti-Defamation League April 7, 2022 Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, extremists and antisemites across the ideological spectrum have used the war as fodder for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories. Emanating from classic antisemites and white supremacists, as well as QAnon influencers and Proud Boys acolytes, classic tropes of Jewish power, financial control and “abuse” of the Holocaust narrative abound online. In just a few short weeks, tens of thousands of social media users have been exposed to these dangerous lies. Continue Reading…..
Chief Justice Roberts joins with liberals to criticize ‘shadow docket’ as court reinstates Trump-era EPA rule By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter CNN April 7, 2022 (CNN)A 5-4 Supreme Court reinstated a Trump-era rule Wednesday that restricts the authority of states to reject federal permits under the Clean Water Act in another ruling putting the court’s emergency docket in the spotlight. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s liberal justices in dissent, arguing that the court’s majority had “gone astray” by granting an unwarranted request on its emergency docket. Continue Reading…..