JUNEAU, Alaska – Rear Admiral Nathan Moore, U.S. Coast Guard 17th District, commander, and Neil O’Rourke, Canadian Coast Guard Arctic Region, assistant commissioner, and their staff met in Yellowknife and Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada the 7-8th of June to discuss joint mission cooperation in the Canada-U.S. trans-boundary waters of the Beaufort Sea portion of […]
WASHINGTON — Moscow on Monday warned several U.S. media outlets of retaliatory measures in response to what it views as restrictions on Russian media. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova met with representatives of a dozen U.S. media outlets in Moscow. According to a journalist with knowledge of the meeting, she made clear “that if the U.S. […]
“There are a lot of MAGA Republicans for whom no amount of gun violence… will ever, ever convince them to take any action,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Less than two weeks after a white supremacist gunned down 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked legislation aimed at […]
“Devastating.” “Tragic.” “Unthinkable.” Those were some of the reactions Wednesday after NBC News reported that the number of deaths from Covid-19 in the United States has surpassed a million, less than a quarter of the way through the third year of the pandemic. [pullquote]”This is far from over.”[/pullquote] While some case counters—such Johns Hopkins’ global tracker—still showed slightly lower figures on Wednesday, public health […]