‘A danger to this republic’: Sen. Al Franken asks why the Trump administration took so long to fire Michael Flynn

Screenshot via CNN Democratic Sen. Al Franken asked former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday why the Trump administration waited nearly three weeks to fire former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn after Yates had warned the White House’s top lawyers that Flynn could be susceptible to blackmail by the Russians. That assessment came after US intelligence agencies captured […]

‘Something is broken in our republic’: Presidential candidates blast French government over school violence

© AFP/File KENZO TRIBOUILLARD Bobigny (France) (AFP) – Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and right-wing Francois Fillon on Wednesday lashed out at the French government a day after a mob of school children in a Paris suburb assaulted police and smashed public property. Chaotic images of tear gas being fired outside a secondary school […]