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WASHINGTON—President Trump lashed out at his acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, earlier this month after learning that one of his subordinates had briefed the House Intelligence Committee about Russia’s apparent preference for Mr. Trump in the 2020 presidential contest, people familiar with the matter said. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine […]

Longtime Hollywood Republican Clint Eastwood signaled that he might not support President Donald Trump’s re-election.

Jose Mourinho had never suffered a league double defeat during his long managerial career until he was schooled by Frank Lampard once again.

TOWN OF CAMBRIA, NY, (WIVB)– The Red Cross is currently assisting a family of five left without a home after an early morning fire. According to the Niagara County Sherriff’s Office, a call came in around 6 a.m. Saturday morning from a resident reporting difficulty breathing with possible smoke in their home. Police arrived on […]

1. CDC is preparing for the 'likely' spread of coronavirus in the US, officials say  USA TODAY
2. World must act fast to contain coronavirus: WHO's Tedros  Reuters UK
3. China's changed how it counts virus cases three times now. Here's why  CNN
4. New coronavirus cases fall in China, but WHO concerned by global spread  Reuters
5. Coronavirus fears grow as global cases spike  CNN
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The vehicle rolled down into the 300 feet deep gorge, killing seven people on the spot and injuring four others. The injured were sent to hospital, they added.

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After chaos for a cruise ship of passengers and crew, an 83-year-old American woman who was said to have tested positive for coronavirus in Malaysia "never had coronavirus to our knowledge," a CDC official said.

From inside the car, President Trump can securely communicate with his officials in Washington and around the world at all times—even to authorise a nuclear attack, just in case World War III breaks out while he’s abroad.

A woman was found dead in an early morning fire at a Queens NYCHA building Saturday, officials said. A blaze broke out on the second floor of the Jamaica Houses on 159th Street near Tuskegee Airman Way at about 12:40 a.m., according to police. When firefighters arrived on the scene, they found a 35-year-old woman,...

Once upon a time, masks were only worn by dangerous bandits, but in Vietnam today they’re a sign you’re the safest citizen around.

NEW YORK -- The jurors in the Harvey Weinstein trial sent out a tantalizing note during their lunch hour Friday afternoon before they were scheduled to break for the weekend.The note, posed as a question to the presiding judge, Justice James Burke, suggested that they might have reached a verdict on some of the lower charges in the case -- rape and forced oral sex -- but were unable to decide on the more serious charges of predatory sexual assault.Here is some background on the charges Weinstein... Читать дальше...

Armstrong Williams

Politics, Americas

Talk about moral hazard.

Nothing creates a moral hazard more than exposing corruption and yet failing to punish those responsible. That’s what happened in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, and that’s what’s happening in baseball today.

The rationale for failing to punish Wall Street corruption in 2008 was that big banks were “too big to fail” and had to be propped up—executive bonuses and all—to save the world economy. Читать дальше...

There have been “outcries both for and against” the screening of a controversial US anti-abortion film, which opens at selected South African movie theatres next Friday, according to its local distributor.

The Berkshire Hathaway chief noted the steady money making of the conglomerate, but gave no insight into succession or other hot topics.

The brave victim, who has since been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, had to relive her ordeal by giving evidence in front of the jury

For almost as long as we’ve had the word Brexit, we’ve been promised that one day we’ll get our blue passports back.

Police said officers received reports of a fight on College Street, just west of Bathurst Street, shortly after 2:30 a.m.

Crowds cheer as the nine-year-old indigenous Australian takes centre-stage in the Queensland match.

Doug Bandow

The Maoist totalitarian state is being reborn in China under Xi Jinping, who is constructing a personality cult akin to that which surrounded the late “Great Helmsman.” Xi is determined to strengthen his and the Chinese Communist Party’s authority. However, the response of the Chinese government to the COVID-19 virus has undermined the CCP’s credibility—and ultimately may threaten the party’s hold on power.

Despite the modern world’s many extraordinary medical miracles... Читать дальше...

China's National Health Commission said 2,345 people have died in the country from the coronavirus, and over 76,288 people are infected.