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Ukraine ministers speaking truth

While President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were duking it out in the Oval Office in a rhetorical version of the Ultimate Fighting Club that Trump loves, six Ukrainian Christian ministers from different denominations were coincidentally (or prophetically?) down the street telling guests at the Institute on Religion and Democracy how Russia is treating people inside the territory it has occupied. Yuriy Kulakevych is a minister in the Ukrainian Pentecostal Church. He told me that 700 churches of all denominations have been ...

October 7 stains America’s left

What remained of the bodies of 32-year-old Shiri Bibas, her 4-year-old son Ariel and her 9-month-old baby boy Kfir were returned to Israel last week. Autopsies showed that they had been brutally murdered by Hamas and Islamic Jihad after they were kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023, and dragged, terrified, into Gaza. Hamas, which held the two Bibas boys for a few weeks before murdering them, “did not shoot the two young boys,” reported an Israel Defense Forces spokesman grimly, “they killed them with their bare hands. Afterward, they committed horrific acts to cover up these ...

Trump’s America open for corruption

Is America open for corruption now? Unabashedly? Nakedly? Are we tossing aside not just our hard-won victories over infectious diseases but also the more than hundred-year battle against fraud, bribery and graft? Honest, clean government doesn’t follow automatically from democracy. Before civil service reform, the wealthy or well-connected were able to line their pockets by bribing public officials. The Credit Mobilier scandal, which featured bribes to a dozen congressmen paid in the 1860s by railroad executives, was just one example of a widespread plague. But just as we were ...

U.K. leader: Europe at crossroads on Ukraine

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Sunday Europe was at a crossroads in history and must do the heavy lifting to defend itself as world leaders met in London to discuss ways of working together to stop Russia’s war in Ukraine. Starmer pledged to supply more arms to defend Ukraine, announcing that the U.K. will use 1.6 billion pounds ($2 billion) in export financing to supply 5,000 air defense missiles. His call for European allies to increase their arms spending to shore up their own defenses and Ukraine’s was not a sign that he thought the United States had ...

Israel cuts off Gaza aid to pressure Hamas on ceasefire

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel faced sharp criticism on Sunday as it stopped the entry of all food and other supplies into Gaza on Sunday and warned of “additional consequences” if Hamas doesn’t accept a new proposal to extend a fragile ceasefire. The foreign minister of Egypt, a key mediator in the conflict, accused Israel of using “starvation as a weapon” in “a flagrant and clear violation of humanitarian law.” Saudi Arabia called Israel’s decision “a tool of extortion.” Hamas accused Israel of trying to derail the ceasefire hours after its first phase had ...

Crowds protest Vice President Vance while vacationing in Vermont

WAITSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Crowds protesting Vice President JD Vance the day after an Oval Office blowout over Ukraine lined roadways Saturday near a Vermont ski resort where he planned a weekend vacation with his family. Many of the hundreds of demonstrators held signs in support of Ukraine, while other anti-war protesters waved Palestinian flags or signs in support of immigrant rights. Protesters showed up at several locations in the area, including both sides of Route 100 in Waitsfield. Though demonstrations were planned days in advance, they were energized Saturday morning by a ...