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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was handed death penalty on Monday after appealing the 15-year jail term he was given in 2016. Canada accused China of arbitrarily applying the capital punishment. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday that…
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – The Venezuelan National Assembly adopted on Tuesday a statement declaring country’s President Nicolas Maduro an usurper with all the decisions made by the president and the executive bodies void, local media reported. “The historic document, in which…
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), a likely Democratic contender for the 2020 presidential nomination, pushed back on attorney general nominee William Barr’s statements about race and the criminal justice system at a Senate hearing Tuesday. Barr has argued in the past…
This wasn’t the beginning House Democrats imagined when they won their new majority in November. Rather than an elegant rollout to their anti-corruption, pro-health care, aggressive-on-climate change agenda, House Democrats have been locked from Day 1 in a fierce partisan…
For the next few months, you’re going to hear a lot of high-profile Democrats announce they are forming an “exploratory committee” for a 2020 White House run. Elizabeth Warren and Julián Castro have taken that step. Kirsten Gillibrand is the…
At the conclusion of “[50/50] Old School Animation,” part of this year’s Under the Radar Festival, at the Public Theatre, I lingered in the lobby, hoping for a little postgame discussion with a friend I’d bumped into before the show.…
