Author: Cole Hanson

Washington | Court documents showed that a US federal judge rejected, on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump’s request to prevent Congress from obtaining his tax returns. • Read also: Elected US officials are ready to sue Trump’s ex-chief of staff • Read also: City of Washington sues far-right groups for attacking Capitol Hill • Read also: At the center of the Capitol attack investigation, a Trump ally threatens prosecution The decision by Washington District Court Judge Trevor McFadden – appointed by Donald Trump during his presidency – represents a major setback for Donald Trump, who has struggled so hard not…

(Washington) Court documents showed that a US federal judge rejected, on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump’s request to prevent Congress from obtaining his tax returns. Posted on December 14, 2021 at 9:50 PM The decision by Washington District Court Judge Trevor McFadden – appointed by Donald Trump during his presidency – represents a major setback for Donald Trump, who has struggled so hard not to make his tax returns public, despite his 2016 campaign promise. According to the former Republican president, the access request from the Democratic-majority House of Representatives is partisan. And for Democrat-elect Richard Neill, the chairman of…

(Washington) The US Air Force has announced that it has fired 27 people for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19. They will be, according to officials, the first soldiers to be dismissed for disobeying a duty to vaccinate. Posted on December 13, 2021 at 7:53 pm Lolita will see the role News agency The Air Force had given its members until November 2 to receive their doses. Thousands of soldiers are said to have either refused or sought waivers. Troops spokeswoman Ann Stefanik said Monday that the 27 members are the first to be released administratively on the basis of…

(Jakarta) US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Tuesday called on China in Jakarta to stop its “aggressive actions” in the Indo-Pacific, hoping to refocus on this region at the heart of Joe’s foreign policy. Through many other crises. Posted on December 13, 2021 at 10:27 pm Francesco Fontemag France media agency “We are determined to ensure freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, where Beijing’s aggressive actions threaten more than $3 trillion worth of trade every year,” he said in a speech on the tree-lined campus of the University of Indonesia. During his first tour of Southeast Asia,…

Minister Eric Kaer said a computer hacker may have accessed some government websites in Quebec that have been compromised by one of the most serious security breaches in recent years. • Read also: The government is paralyzed: nearly 4,000 vulnerable websites have been disconnected • Read also: Experts say safety is better than sorry It is possible, we do not close the door to this hypothesis. But what I can say is that it leaves traces. The head of government digital transformation, in an interview Monday on QUB Radio, said that a person will break into the system, but there…

No alcohol in bars or restaurants, vaccinations speed up, teleworking popularized… Norway unveiled a new set of health measures to tackle COVID on Monday after publishing worrying forecasts. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) has warned that without any measures – including those already in place – this Scandinavian country of 5.4 million people could record in three weeks between 90,000 and 300,000 new cases of COVID per day and 50 to 200 hospital admissions per day. the morning. The high hypothesis of this range is more or less consistent with the number of people who have officially contracted…

(Mayfield) US President Joe Biden on Sunday night declared a state of major disaster in Kentucky, which has become a symbol of the devastation caused by tornadoes that have killed at least 94 people in several states across the country. Posted on Dec 13, 2021 at 6:22am Updated at 7:58 am Cyril Julian France media agency The announcement, made at the request of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, will help unlock more federal aid. The president intends to be there as soon as possible. Biden had previously lamented “one of the worst series of hurricanes” in the nation’s history, calling its…

Greenhouse gas emissions from European meat and dairy giants continue to increase despite the climate crisis, as a non-governmental organization report on Monday denounced what it called a “greenwash” of particularly polluted sectors. • Read also: Greenhouse gas emissions increase in Quebec in 2019 • Read also: Raise your goals, you can’t do it on the corner of the table In this report calling on governments to “regulate agribusiness,” the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) reviews 35 of the largest companies in the sector headquartered in the European Union, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and examines their potential…

On Sunday, UK health officials announced that the alert level for COVID had been raised due to the “rapid increase” in cases of the Omicron variant. • Read also: Omicron spreads faster, and vaccines are arguably less effective • Read also: Omicron: “We need a better idea of ​​what’s happening in Quebec” The level has been reduced from three to four, which is the second highest and indicates that “transmission is high and pressure on health services is widespread and significant or increasing”. They note, “The first elements show that Omicron spreads much faster than Delta and that the vaccine’s…

Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled on Saturday to make submission of a certificate of vaccination against COVID 19 mandatory for travelers arriving in the country, in order to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant. • Read also: Brazil: Severe sentences for those responsible for the nightclub fire • Read also: Cyber ​​attack delays anti-COVID measures in Brazil The decision, which has yet to be ratified by nine other judges of the Federal Supreme Court, responds to a request from the Rede Sustentabilidade (center-left) party. Le régulateur sanitaire du Brésil, l’Anvisa, avait recommandé d’exiger un passeport sanitaire pour les voyageurs arrivant…