Author: Aidan McLaughlin

Fox Host Exasperated After Repeatedly Asking Trump What More He Would Do to Support Ukraine

Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney repeatedly asked Donald Trump what military support he would offer Ukraine that isn’t already being offered by the current administration but received little in the way of answers from the former president. In an interview on Varney & Co. Monday, its host first asked Trump what President Joe Biden should […]

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Tucker Carlson’s Favorite UFC Fighter/Ukraine Commentator Thinks US Government Stages School Shootings

Bryce Mitchell, the UFC fighter who has been celebrated by Tucker Carlson for his comments on Ukraine, believes school shootings are staged by the U.S. government. The star fighter known as “Thug Nasty” recently drew the attention of social media for voicing his thoughts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine during a UFC press conference. […]

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Daily Beast Reporter Describes Horrific Shooting of Him and Colleague By Gunman in Ukraine

Two journalists reporting on the war in Ukraine for The Daily Beast were shot by an unidentified gunman who opened fire on their car in the city of Okhtyrka. Amid alarming reports of journalists facing attacks from troops in Ukraine, Danish reporter Stefan Weichert wrote about the shooting of himself and photographer Emil Filtenbourg in […]

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Foreign Correspondent Dan McLaughlin on Reporting From Ukraine as Putin’s War Escalates: ‘How Do You Claim to Be a Liberator of a Country You’re Annihilating?’

For this week’s episode of The Interview I spoke to Dan McLaughlin, a foreign correspondent covering the war in Ukraine for The Irish Times. He has spent decades reporting from eastern Europe and Russia, in cities including Budapest, Moscow, and most recently Kyiv. This is a special episode for me: Dan is my uncle. Last […]

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WATCH: Stephanopoulos Confronts Russia’s Lavrov on Civilian Deaths in Ukraine and Russia’s ‘Lies’ About Them

ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos confronted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the civilians killed in the course of the invasion of Ukraine. During a press roundtable for Russian television, parts of which were aired on Good Morning America Thursday, Stephanopoulos said to Lavrov: “The world is seeing civilians being killed in Ukraine by Russian […]

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Top Editor at Russia-Backed RT Reportedly Quits in Protest of Ukraine Invasion

A top editor at Kremlin-backed media conglomerate RT has quit her job in protest of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Maria Baronova, the editor in chief of RT’s Russian-language edition, said she resigned from the outlet in an interview with news outlet Znak. Baronova told Znak she “has nothing left to talk about” with those […]

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Taylor Lorenz on Why She’s Moving to the Washington Post, What Happened at the Times, and How to Deal With Smear Campaigns

Taylor Lorenz, the star tech reporter whose coverage of internet culture brought new readers and fresh buzz to the New York Times, announced earlier this month she’s moving to the Washington Post. “I wasn’t necessarily actively looking to leave at all,” she told me in a conversation last week for the latest episode of The […]

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‘You Think the Deer Have Kevlar Vests?’: Biden Goes Off Script During Gun Control Appeal

President Joe Biden went off-script during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night with a crack about hunting deer with assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Biden introduced the subject of gun violence and remained mostly on-script, according to text of the speech as prepared for delivery that the White House released shortly before […]

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Biden Leads Standing Ovation for the Ukrainian People: ‘A Wall of Strength’ Putin ‘Never Imagined’

President Joe Biden opened his State of the Union address on Tuesday night by leading the House Floor in a standing ovation for the Ukrainian people as they face a brutal invasion by Russia. “Last year Covid-19 kept us apart,” Biden said to open his speech. “This year we are finally together again.” “Tonight, we […]

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