Going into the weekend, Donald Trump and his allies were feeling themselves, after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Clearly, Trumpists thought this was the moment to press their advantage, praising Putin and doubling down on overt white nationalist and fascist sentiment at home. Trump spent the week gushing over Putin,…Continue Reading

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., on Sunday accused Democrats of paving the way for Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. According to the senator’s somewhat tortured logic, the first impeachment of Donald Trump, over his attempt to blackmail the Ukrainian president, somehow empowered Putin’s aggression. Johnson appeared on Fox News as numerous Republicans over the…Continue Reading

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, called Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., “morons” on Sunday after the two House lawmakers attended a white nationalist event whose participants heaped praise on Russia for invading Ukraine.  “Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, I don’t know them,” Romney said during a CNN interview. “I’m reminded of…Continue Reading

COVID The physician called the CDC’s new mask guidelines “reasonable, well-timed and consistent with the science.” A man dons a mask while walking in Downtown Crossing Feb. 10. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new masking guidelines that put most of the country in counties that don’t need to mask are…Continue Reading

World The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday morning released details of its new economic restrictions against Moscow. The headquarters of Bank Rossii, Russia’s central bank, in Moscow, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. Western allies took unprecedented aim at the institution on Monday. Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg By Jeff Stein, Washington Post February 28, 2022 |…Continue Reading

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s performance in the just-concluded Panchayat elections is dismal. The reason is said to be the party’s failure to cash in on the negative wave against the ruling BJD. In the 2017 elections, the saffron party had won 297 Zilla Parishad zones and formed ZPs in eight districts like Malkangiri, Kalahandi, Bolangir, Bargarh,…Continue Reading

The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from Centre on the status of a Pakistani national, languishing in a detention centre for seven years, after Islamabad refuses to accept him as its citizen.A bench of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and Surya Kant noted that the person has served his sentence of 3 years and six months,…Continue Reading