Joseph Gedeon

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Leingang |Joseph Gedeon

Tina Smith, a Minnesota senator confronted Mike Lee, a Utah senator, on Monday to tell him directly that his social media posts fueled ongoing misinformation about a shooting that killed her friend. Lee’s posts, which advanced conspiracies that a Minnesota assassin was a “Marxist” and blamed the state’s governor for Melissa Hortman’s death, were among many threads of false or speculative claims swirling online after the killings. Smith told Lee his posts were “brutal and cruel,” according to CNN.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Joseph Gedeon |Eleni Courea

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2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Joseph Gedeon |Eleni Courea

The Pentagon has launched a review of the Aukus submarine agreement to make sure it is aligned with Trump’s “America first” agenda, throwing the $240bn defense pact with Britain and Australia into doubtThe review may trigger more allied anxiety over the future of the trilateral alliance designed to counter China’s military rise.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Joseph Gedeon |Robert Tait

The Trump administration will eliminate all USAID overseas positions worldwide by 30 September in a dramatic restructuring of remaining US foreign aid operations. In a Tuesday state department cable obtained by the Guardian, secretary of state Marco Rubio ordered the abolishment of the agency’s entire international workforce, transferring control of foreign assistance programs directly to the state department.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Joseph Gedeon

Unrest in Los Angeles has become a microcosm of America’s political divisions on immigration enforcement operations, with political leaders offering vastly different interpretations of the Trump administration’s deployment of national guard troops and the mass targeting of undocumented communities.