Mitch McConnell‚ Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden might have been in lockstep on aiding Ukraine‚ but some things the Senate minority leader had to shoulder alone. Like battling his own party for the better part of the year. “I don’t want to take a bit away from Chuck. He didn’t have any Ukraine problems‚ I had all of them. But‚ we agreed on the overall goal‚” McConnell said in an interview on Tuesday. “It was not possible for him to help me with my members. Nor was it possible for the...

What a farce. As I’ve related a few times‚ Alvin Bragg‚ Manhattan’s elected progressive Democratic district attorney‚ is trying to hoodwink the jury into believing that (a) it is a crime for a candidate for public office to conspire with others to suppress politically damaging information‚ and (b) that Donald Trump was charged with such a conspiracy in the indictment that has resulted in the ongoing trial. In point of fact‚ there is no such information-suppression conspiracy...

Columbia University students who refuse to end their protest against Israel's war in Gaza say university officials have threatened to bring in the National Guard and police to sweep their encampment. It comes after Columbia authorized the New York Police Department to arrest more than 100 pro-Palestinian student demonstrators who had camped out on Columbia's main lawn to protest the war and demand their school divest from companies with ties to Israel. The student protesters...

Ukrainian forces are having their best week in months‚ and it’s coming not on the muddy battlefields of the Donbas‚ but across the Atlantic. On Saturday‚ after months of delay‚ the US House of Representatives approved $61 billion in new funding for Ukraine‚ alongside aid packages for Israel and for US allies in the Pacific; last night‚ the Senate approved the package and sent it on to President Joe Biden. He said he’ll sign it today. The new weapons can’t come...

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