Jack Taylor 
Analysis Volodymyr Zelensky has spent the last two years not just leading his country in a war against Russia, but also travelling around the world begging for help. In the kindest of diplomatic terms. D-Day proved to be fertile ground for the Ukrainian President’s campaign to sharpen the minds of Western leaders who may have … Read more
Her Beatles countrymen sang “I wanna hold your hand,” but Queen Camilla wasn’t buying it at the D-Day ceremony in Normandy on Thursday. French first lady Brigitte Macron tried to hold Camilla’s hand and got a seemingly chilly reaction from the British royal, according to observers. After the two laid wreaths at the memorial, Macron … Read more
(NewsNation) — The United States’ intensely polarized political climate is fueled by myriad cultural issues, but a few topics — including race, gender and immigration — stand out, new Pew Research suggests. In early April 2024, 8,709 adults — 7,166 of whom were registered voters — participated in the survey. The survey, meant to gauge opinions … Read more
Canada’s former ambassador to China, Guy Saint-Jacques, says Beijing’s meddling in Canada’s democracy is worse than it has ever been. Earlier this week, a report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) alleged that sitting federal politicians are “witting” participants in foreign interference schemes. The report did not name names, and the … Read more
A right-wing political action committee put up a TV ad on Friday indirectly highlighting the racial differences between Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and his Democratic challenger, Rep. Colin Allred. The ad shows a Latina woman talking about how hard her family has always worked and how she would resent the government paying African Americans reparations … Read more
Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), who last week left the Democratic Party to become an independent, is leading 45 of his Senate Republican colleagues on a resolution to overturn a Biden administration rule on the care of unaccompanied migrant children. “We have a crisis at our southern border and its human impacts are absolutely devastating. I … Read more
Google announced which organization it has selected to distribute the $100 million the tech giant has promised to Canadian news companies Friday. Google agreed to pay Canadian news publishers $100 million annually, indexed to inflation, in order to be exempt from the Online News Act, which compels tech companies to enter into agreements with news … Read more
U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday urged Americans to honor the Army Rangers who turned the tide of World War II by scaling the steep cliffs of Pointe du Hoc in France by doing their part to preserve democracy against aggression from both abroad “and at home.” “They fought to vanquish a hateful ideology in … Read more
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (L) and Beyonce (R) Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disclosed receiving concert tickets from pop superstar Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, one of several notable items revealed Friday in the high court’s latest financial disclosure reports. Jackson valued the four tickets at $3,711.84, according to her annual disclosure form, which covered … Read more
(NewsNation) —Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas filed an amendment to his financial disclosures Friday acknowledging for the first time that he accepted luxury travel to Indonesia and an all-male California retreat in 2019 from Republican billionaire Harlan Crow. In the new filing, Thomas wrote that that he “inadvertently omitted” the trips on his previous reports, reported … Read more
