Canada’s federal police force has a new top cop — at least for now. The RCMP say Deputy Commissioner Michael Duheme will lead the force as interim head as they search for a permanent replacement for outgoing commissioner Brenda Lucki, who retired from the force Friday. Mackenzie Gray breaks down Lucki’s controversial legacy and what it could mean for the force going forward.
Sputnik/Sergei Karpukhin/Pool via Reuters The ruling party of Armenia has warned that if Russian President Vladimir Putin comes to Armenia, the country will have no choice but to arrest him.The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest earlier this month over alleged war crimes in Ukraine, particularly his alleged involvement in the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine. But the ICC doesn’t have the power to enforce its warrants, and since Russia doesn’t reco
The former president is still facing multiple investigations
Concord Press Service/via ReutersWagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has made a name for himself by having his men kill as many Ukrainians as they can on behalf of President Vladimir Putin—but some analysts now say he’s actually vying for the president’s throne.“Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin may be using his influence in Russia’s mainstream media landscape to present himself as a contender in Russia’s 2024 presidential elections,” the D.C.-based Institute for the Study of War said
The actor has a theory to explain what's really going on.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/ReutersMarjorie Taylor Greene is up to her old tricks—this time, protesting a routine ATF inspection of a Georgia gun store Monday under the guise that there apparently were too many agents from “blue states” conducting the operation.“It’s not normal to be out-of-state,” Greene complained to an ATF official, referring to the agents. “16 of ’em, and most of ’em are out-of-state.”In a follow-up tweet, Greene complained the search was carried ou
The US Department of the Treasury has linked the Alfa Nero to Andrey Guryev, who the department said is a "close associate" of Vladimir Putin's.
The Russian service member said female medics were made into "field wives" who had to cook and clean for officers as well as "please" them sexually.
"Tells you all you need to know," Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle responded on Twitter.
Pompeo, a Trump-era secretary of state, may be one of Trump's challengers for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
The woman was arrested after waving a knife at a couple with two young children, according Politico
Afghanistan's rulers the Taliban claim to have rehabilitated hundreds of vehicles the US said it destroyed in its chaotic withdrawal in 2021.
(Bloomberg) -- Former President Donald Trump is appealing an order rejecting his efforts to block grand jury testimony from several former White House advisers in an investigation into efforts to undermine the 2020 presidential election.Most Read from Bloomberg$52 Billion Chipmaking Plan Is Racing Toward FailureNew Yorkers Are Moving to These Three Florida Cities$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot MarketFBI Releases Files on Ivana TrumpScotiabank Economist Excoriates Trudeau,
Saudi Arabia is joining an anti-Western influence bloc formed by Russia and China, in a sign of Riyadh’s deepening ties with Beijing as the US pivots away from the Middle East.
Twitter is banning images of a poster for a “Trans Day of Vengeance” rally amid fears it is inciting “violence” in the wake of a mass shooting in Nashville.
Sweden's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it will summon Russia's Stockholm ambassador to complain about an "attempt at interference" with the Swedish NATO application process. Sweden and Finland in 2022 both sought NATO membership shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and are hoping to complete the process this year. The Russian ambassador in a statement on the embassy's web site said joining NATO made the Nordic countries "a legitimate target for Russian retaliatory measures, including those of a military nature".
FBI investigation spans two years and several countries
"His end will not be a calm and quiet conclusion," the former Trump ally predicted.
Even when most nations dismissed the idea, Baltic countries were working behind the scenes to convince the West to send tanks to Ukraine.
A U.S. judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump's bid to throw out E. Jean Carroll's defamation claim from next month's high-profile trial over whether Trump raped the former Elle magazine columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan rejected Trump's claim that "absolute litigation privilege" immunized the former president for allegedly defaming Carroll last Oct. 12 on his Truth Social media platform by denying the rape occurred. Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/ReutersGet more news and opinions in the twice-daily Beast Digest newsletter. Don’t miss the next big story, sign up here.Lawyers for former Vice President Mike Pence and the Justice Department should think twice before appealing Chief Judge Jeb Boasberg’s rulings rejecting arguments to get Pence out of testifying before the Jan. 6 grand jury.The Trump legal team had argued executive privilege completely shielded Pence from complying with a gr
