Last year, when Donald Trump’s attorneys declared he had “total immunity” from prosecution, many in the legal community scoffed. “Minority Leader Mitch McConnell noted this just moments after voting to acquit Trump, saying the courts are the proper forum for holding the former president accountable for his role in the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump …
Russia has blacklisted The Moscow Times for being an “undesirable organisation”, forbidding local journalists from writing for the paper. The independent online English-language paper published by Dutch journalist Derk Sauer had already been called a “foreign agent” and now stands accused of “discrediting the decisions of the leadership of the Russian Federation, concerning both foreign and national policy,” Moscow said. …
The main editors of the Russian online newspaper The Moscow Times will be working from the Netherlands for the time being, founder and publisher Derk Sauer said to the Volkskrant. The editors are fleeing the country due to a draconian media law President Vladimir Putin suddenly implemented on Friday. Previously, the Kremlin banned journalists from using the words "war" and …
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Gov. “In Washington State, our hospitals are currently at or beyond capacity, and we need additional assistance at this time,” Inslee wrote in Friday’s letter — released publicly Monday — to Jeffrey Zients, the White House COVID-19 coordinator. Inslee wrote that the state Department of Health has requested 1,200 clinical and non-clinical staff, and that he …