by Jim Heath | Oct 31, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Health
This was Boris Johnson’s King Canute moment. Politico: Having spent the past few weeks trying to find a balanced approach in the face of the relentless incoming tide of England’s coronavirus second wave, the prime minister said at a press conference this evening it...
by Jim Heath | Oct 21, 2020 | 2020, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
President Trump’s tax records show he has pursued expansive business projects in China for years and even maintains a Chinese bank account. The New York Times: The disclosures that deal a blow to Trump’s efforts to paint Democratic nominee Joe Biden as...
by Jim Heath | Oct 15, 2020 | 2020, FBI, Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Federal investigators are examining whether the emails allegedly describing activities by Joe Biden and his son Hunter and found on a laptop at a Delaware repair shop are linked to a foreign intelligence operation. The FBI seized the laptop and a hard drive through a...
by Jim Heath | Oct 14, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Health
Rapidly increasing caseloads across Europe and the United States are raising grave fears of another surge in coronavirus cases as winter approaches and people around the world chafe under pandemic restrictions that impede their daily lives — and their livelihoods....
by Jim Heath | Oct 8, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
The Taliban today praised Donald Trump’s tweet promising to remove all US troops out of Afghanistan by Christmas. On Wednesday Trump announced the US will remove the last ‘of our BRAVE men and women serving in Afghanistan’ by the holiday season, marking...
by Jim Heath | Sep 20, 2020 | 2020, Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Republicans are preparing to release a report in a matter of days on their investigation focused on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, a move they once believed would be their final case against the Democratic nominee just weeks from the...