Month: December 2019

A federal judge in McAllen, Texas, has temporarily blocked a plan for a construction firm favored by President Trump to build a privately-funded segment of border wall along the banks of the Rio Grande River. The same firm, Fisher Industries, recently won a $400 million federal contract to construct 31 miles of barrier along the…

Of particular interest to me in this week’s House impeachment hearing was a moment when the chief counsel for the Republicans read aloud a quote about the dangers of a purely partisan, policy-based impeachment of a sitting president. This was from page 140 of my book with Joshua Matz, “To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment.” The…

Welcome to 2020 Vision, the Yahoo News column covering the presidential race. Reminder: There are 87 days until the Iowa caucuses and 361 days until the 2020 presidential election. With the prospect of an impeachment trial in the Senate looming, the five senators remaining in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination are preparing for what is…

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The leaders of Russia and Belarus spent more than five hours Saturday in sensitive talks on deepening ties between the two allies — a meeting that triggered a protest in the Belarusian capital among those who fear Russia’s intentions. No immediate deal was announced after the talks in Sochi on Russia’s…

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia and Belarus have come closer to resolving their differences on oil and gas supplies, Russia’s economy minister said on Saturday after talks between the two countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko were holding talks on Saturday on an integration road map in the southern Russian city…

Party leaders are making last ditch bids for votes in the final weekend of campaigning before the general election. Labour has narrowed the Tories lead but Boris Johnson’s party remains ahead in every poll with less than a week to go until polling day on December 12. The parties return to the campaign trail on…

By William Schomberg and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson is heading into Britain’s election next week with a lead in opinion polls, but some of the surveys also suggest that his chance of winning a parliamentary majority could be too close to call. Four opinion polls published on Saturday put the…

On Friday, Reddit said that its security team believes a collection of leaked United States-United Kingdom trade documents that had been posted on the site are a part of a coordinated information campaign to spread disunity linked to Russia. “We were recently made aware of a post on Reddit that included leaked documents from the…

Compared to their counterparts in the United States, the United States Navy and Marine Corps, the Mexican Navy is small— around sixty-six thousand. The Mexican Naval Infantry, their Marine Corps, is even smaller— numbering only about eighteen thousand.   In contrast to the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy, the Mexican Navy’s main…

Former Vice President Joe Biden argued that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s politics are far to the left of the Democratic Party’s average voter in an interview with Axios.  Biden added that the media falsely reported that the Democratic Party “moved extremely to the left” following Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss.  “You all thought that what happened was…