A Russian court sentenced Aleksei A. Navalny to nine years in a high-security prison on Tuesday, imposing a new punishment on the imprisoned opposition leader at a time when the war in Ukraine has made him even MORE
Welcome to another Monday, this is Free Range, our free chat which is free ranging 😜across mountains and prairies, highways and byways, sea and sky, streams and deserts (and whatever is going on in between)…. MORE
It’s another Friday at News Views, and we’re coming up on two weeks of fighting in Ukraine. While Putin sent his “peacekeeping” troops into Eastern Ukraine on Feb. 21, it was Feb. 24 he dropped MORE
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has called on Russians to stage daily protests against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, depicting President Vladimir Putin as an “obviously insane tsar.” Navalny called for protests across the country and MORE
The last Monday in February. This is Free Range, our Monday Free chat with an environmental focus, attention to this blue planet and all things living and non-living, above and below, bright and dark, future MORE
Ukraine’s defense forces, outmanned and outgunned, waged a ferocious resistance to the Russian invasion on Saturday, battling to keep control of the capital, Kyiv, and other cities. There was intense street fighting, and bursts of MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers, unbelievably, February is almost gone, and ”good riddance, buh-bye, don’t let the door hit you on the way out. . … .Wars and rumors of wars. We’ve witnessed the beginning of MORE
Ukraine’s government said it faced “a full-scale attack from multiple directions.” World leaders condemned President Vladimir Putin’s actions. Chuhuyiv, in eastern Ukraine, was hit by bombs Thursday as Russian military forces attacked the country from MORE
Several Ukrainian government websites were offline Wednesday as a result of a mass distributed denial of service attack, Mykhailo Fedorov, head of Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, said in his Telegram channel. The attack, which also MORE
Of all the former secretaries of state under Democratic and Republican presidents, only one is taking to cable news and social media during a moment of peril in Europe to praise Russian President Vladimir Putin MORE
Early in the Reagan administration, several Christian conservative leaders founded a group called the Council for National Policy. It soon turned into what my colleague David Kirkpatrick has described as “a little-known club of a few hundred MORE
The German Response: Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday that Germany would halt certification of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline that would link his country with Russia, one of the strongest moves yet MORE
The United States continues to warn that Russia could invade Ukraine “any day” amid escalating tensions in the region, with President Joe Biden telling reporters Friday he’s “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to MORE
Happy Monday News Viewers, this is Free Range, our Free Chat with an environmental bent. Below are pictures of Ukraine getting ready for war. While Putin plays word games, regular people try to prepare. As MORE
“Along with Ingenuity, intrepid helicopter Wing Man” The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it reaches the end of the first of several planned science campaigns on the MORE
“Stalker-adjacent” says Joy Ann Reid, MSNBC Let’s face it: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lives rent-free in Tucker Carlson’s head. Since her election to Congress in 2018, the Fox News host has devoted an enormous — if not downright obsessive MORE
The BA.2 virus – a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant – isn’t just spreading faster than its distant cousin, it may also cause more severe disease and appears capable of thwarting some of the MORE
Biden is speaking to key world leaders now; additional troops have beens sent to Hungary, also a Nato Nation. Putin is planning several practice nuclear missile launches tomorrow; President Zelensky has been planning to travel MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers and welcome to our free chat on Fridays; all topics all the time, within the bounds of reason, civility and good taste. 😉 Today’s important because we are, apparently, coming up MORE
The glimmer of optimism that greeted Russia’s announcement that it was pulling troops back from the Ukrainian border looks to have been extinguished. A senior American official has reportedly accused the Kremlin of lying about its withdrawal, MORE
Donald Trump Jr. posts a screenshot on Instagram and Twitter of what he says is former president Trump’s first post on upcoming social media platform Truth Social. Former President Donald Trump appears to be readying the MORE
Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley slammed Olympic gold medallist Eileen Gu for competing in the 2022 Beijing Olympics for China, saying that when it comes to citizenships, athletes “have got to pick a side.” Gu’s road to the Games has MORE
Prince Andrew has reached a settlement “in principle” with Virginia Giuffre, a woman who brought a law suit against the British royal, alleging he sexually abused her when she was a teenager. David Boies, an attorney for Giuffre, MORE
Relatives of nine of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have reached a historic settlement with Remington, the maker of the rifle used in the massacre, according to court documents. It is MORE
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva can continue to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics despite testing positive for a banned substance before the Games, an international body ruled Monday. However, Olympic officials say there will be no medal ceremony MORE