Prisoner Swap: Russia yesterday released imprisoned American basketball player Brittney Griner in exchange for Victor Bout, the Russian international arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death.”    The announcement of the exchange came suddenly yesterday morning.   The swap did not include …

The Putsch: Details are emerging about an elaborate right wing plot in Germany to overthrow the government, execute the chancellor, and install a prince descended from German nobility as the new head of state.   It sounded like Germany in the 1930s, …

Trump World:   Donald Trump’s company was found guilty yesterday in a New York State court of 17 counts of tax evasion and fraud in a stunning rebuke to the real estate empire operated by the former president of the United States. …

Georgia On My Mind: The early line is that Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock comes into today’s Senate runoff with a lead over Republican Herschel Walker, but it’s tight.   If Warnock wins, the Democrats will have a majority of 51seats.    Warnock …

Trump World: Prosecutors at the New York criminal trial of the Trump organization said the former president personally approved schemes to dodge taxes by both employees and his company.  Joshua Steinglass yesterday told the jury during closing arguments that Trump signed …

  Not So Special: A panel of three federal appellate judges yesterday ruled that Donald Trump should never have been granted his request for a special master to review materials, many of them highly classified, seized in the FBI search of his …

Track 5: The House  passed a bill to force the railroad freight companies and their unions to accept a negotiated agreement that would avert a crippling strike and keep the trains running.    The strike would start on December 9th and President Biden said in …

Rock and Roll: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and one of his senior officers were convicted yesterday of the rarely prosecuted crime of seditious conspiracy for attempting to interrupt the peaceful transfer of presidential power in the January 6th insurrection. Rhodes, 57, …

China Syndrome: As if a pandemic, war in Ukraine, high fuel prices, and inflation were not enough, rising unrest in China over the government’s “zero covid” restrictions is feeding economic uncertainty. The US stock markets took a dive yesterday.   China is …

China Syndrome:  Rare and dangerous protests against the government erupted in Chinese cities over the weekend as people have become frustrated with the draconian “zero covid” restrictions. Some Chinese critics blame the Covid lockdown for an apartment fire that killed 10 …