They will be honored in a ceremony on November 28. Gregory was appointed Archbishop of DC in 2019, having served in cities that included Chicago and Atlanta. The churchman made a name for himself this year when he publicly criticized President Donald Trump over his visit to Washington’s Saint John …
Read More »Iran sent fake ‘Proud Boys’ emails to intimidate American voters & ‘damage President Trump’, US spy chief and FBI director claim
Tehran was behind the “spoof emails designed to intimidate voters, incite social unrest, and damage President Trump,” Ratcliffe alleged during a special press conference on Wednesday evening. Some registered Democrats in Alaska and Florida reported receiving threatening emails telling them the Proud Boys were “in possession of all your information” …
Read More »New American military base in Pacific would show how US-China cold war is heating up fast
Few people in the west are likely to have heard of a nation called Palau, an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean. Located close to Papua New Guinea and the Philippines, it boasts a population of only 17,000 people, less than the average small town. Do not let its size …
Read More »Black panderers: Trump & Biden’s fight for African American vote is a grotesque pantomime of caring
The Republican Party has once again been accused of trying to trick black people into voting for President Donald Trump, as the Washington Post highlighted the takedown of a network of apparent bot accounts posing as black Trump supporters on Tuesday. Glossing over the absence of any overt link to …
Read More »Russian & American astronauts lift off for ‘ultrafast’ 3-hour flight to International Space Station aboard Soyuz MS-17 (VIDEO)
That means the trip is shorter than a standard Moscow to London flight. The three travelers took off from a launch site in Kazakhstan just before noon local time on Wednesday, riding aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. They are expected to dock at the ISS in record time under the new flight …
Read More »When the choice is between Trump and Biden, American elections don’t seem that democratic
Growing up in Russia, I got used to the fact that elections are not necessarily a democratic issue. Because even as the will of the people is expressed, the deals between parties guarding their own interests make the calls. After all, the history of the 1996 elections, which Gennady Zyuganov, …
Read More »‘Stupid & dangerous’: American football fans row over weight limit for kids after footage of ‘NFL-sized 10yo’ emerges (VIDEO)
Dwarfing his teammates and rivals as he waited to receive possession, the purported child proceeds to pummel through the opposition defense and towards the line on a charge forward that would give any player of that age little hope of stopping him. Fans said that the wide receiver had activated …
Read More »Trump expects Covid-19 vaccines will be available for ‘every American’ by April 2021
Three vaccines are “already in the final stage” of testing, Trump told reporters at Friday’s press briefing, noting that “brilliant” US doctors and scientists have been working round the clock since January. The announcement clarifies remarks made at Thursday’s briefing, where Trump and Atlas spoke about “hundreds of millions of …
Read More »The UK should just get over it and become the 51st American state
Both have a reputation for having enjoyed the company of women other than their wives, and neither is self-aware enough to realize just how uncool their haircuts are. But at least Boris was British; he could at least lay even a tenuous claim to that legendary Brit sense of playing …
Read More »Iran blasts US for ‘worn-out propaganda’ after Politico article about ‘plot’ to kill American envoy in revenge for Soleimani
“We advise the American officials to stop resorting to hackneyed and worn-out methods for anti-Iran propaganda in the international arena,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said. The diplomat’s remarks were apparently meant to rebuff a story published by Politico on September 13. Citing unnamed US government officials, the magazine …
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