Ike Gazaryan says it began with phone calls. Then came the bad online reviews, the cancelled reservations, and the threatening notes. “Some of these phone calls are pretty disturbing,” said Gazaryan, owner of Pushkin Russian Restaurant in San Diego, California. “They’re yelling, saying, ‘You’re f***king Russian pigs, I hope you die.’” Gazaryan, who is Armenian,…Continue Reading
When the rest of the world looks at America’s gun problem, it’s often with bafflement. Sunday with Lubach, which is sort of like the Dutch version of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, looked at guns — specifically, the US’s love of firearms. And it’s very telling. For one, the satirical Dutch video describes America’s…Continue Reading
Joe Biden wanted to put Sarah Bloom Raskin into one of the most powerful positions at the Federal Reserve because she is an advocate of using the central bank’s regulatory powers to diminish the supply of fossil fuels. In an age of oil priced over $100 a barrel and the highest ever nominal price for…Continue Reading
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” host Maria Bartiromo reacted to The New York Times admitting that the Hunter Biden laptop is authentic by pointing out that then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe pushed back on assertions that the laptop was Russian misinformation back in October 2020. Bartiromo played a clip of…Continue Reading
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is an admirer of Critical Race Theory, the “1619 Project,” and Black Lives Matter, all of which hold beliefs about the United States and its laws that make it impossible for her to serve in good faith on the Supreme Court. Her beliefs were revealed in a recently unearthed lecture delivered to…Continue Reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Facing stiff resistance in Ukraine and crippling economic sanctions at home, Russian President Vladimir Putin is using language that recalls the rhetoric from Josef Stalin’s show trials of the 1930s.Putin’s ominous speech on Wednesday likened opponents to “gnats” who try to weaken the country at the behest of the West —…Continue Reading
Ukrainian ballet star Artyom Datsishin died Thursday from wounds he suffered amid Russian shelling weeks earlier, several of his colleagues said.Datsishin was a principal dancer at the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv.“He was a beautiful dancer loved by his colleagues. Unbearable pain,” wrote Alexei Ratmansky, an influential Ukrainian choreographer who until recently was working…Continue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally at a Moscow stadium and praised his country’s troops Friday as they pressed their lethal attacks on Ukrainian cities with shelling and missiles.“Shoulder to shoulder, they help and support each other,” Putin said in a rare public appearance since the invasion three weeks ago that…Continue Reading
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Constitutional Court on Thursday approved the release from prison of former President Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for murder and corruption charges.The decision restored a humanitarian pardon granted to Fujimori on Christmas Eve in 2017 by then President Pablo Kuczynski, a court official told The Associated Press.…Continue Reading
An emotional Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy angrily told Germany’s Parliament on Thursday that the post-Holocaust “never again” pledge means nothing in light of the West’s inaction on the Russian invasion of his country.“‘Never again’ has been the slogan,” Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, said in his scathing remarks via video link from Kyiv. “But now it…Continue Reading
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