Day: May 20, 2023
Fighter jets will be ‘very useful’ for Ukraine
The F-16 fighter jets the West promised this week to send Ukraine will likely be “very useful” for Kyiv, but will “probably” arrive after the counter-offensive, with “at least four months” until Ukraine takes possession of them, said Dominique Trinquan…
MN weather: Sunny, beautiful weekend ahead
Break out the sunglasses and sunscreen this weekend. You’ll need it as we enter into a beautiful weekend full of sunshine and highs in the seventies.
G7 communiqué asks China to put pressure on Russia
“Today Japan announced the final communiqué from the G7 summit, something that would normally be done at the end of the summit, but with Zelensky coming the timetables have shifted,” journalist Jake Adelstein reported from the meeting in Hiroshima. “Th…
Delays on I-270 following major crash
One man is dead following a crash on I-270 Saturday morning, police say.
Court finds FBI misused a FISA Section 702 database 278K+ times between 2020 and 2021, as the White House seeks to persuade Congress to renew the law in 2023 (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Court finds FBI misused a FISA Section 702 database 278K+ times between 2020 and 2021, as the White House seeks to persuade Congress to renew the law in 2023 — The bureau made changes after the newly…
Utah mother charged with poisoning husband was more than $2m in debt, new documents reveal
Court papers filed this week also offered new details about previous poisoning attempts
Russian private army head claims forces have won control of Ukraine’s Bakhmut
The head of Russian private army Wagner has claimed his fighters have completed the capture of eastern Ukrainian city Bakhmut, after the longest battle of the Ukraine war.
G7 Bent On “Double Containment” Of Russia, China: Russian Foreign Minister
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that decisions taken by the Group of Seven countries at their summit in Japan were aimed at the “double containment” of Russia and China.
A year after Mariupol’s fall, Azovstal survivor recalls surrender with pain and a sense of purpose
A Mariupol police officer who was among the last defenders to surrender from the Azovstal steel mill is among those to mark a year since they surrendered on orders of the Ukrainian president.