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There is more to fake news than Trump’s lies. Real journalists are needed more than ever Patrick Cockburn © Provided by The Independent I live in the Cathedral city of Canterbury where I suddenly became aware last month that the neighbouring district of Swale had the highest Covid-19 infection rate in England. Close behind it in terms of the severity of the outbreak were several other districts on the Thames estuary along the north Kent coast. During an epidemic everybody carries out a rough assessment of the risk to themselves and their families, so I naturally wanted to ...

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Some 30 years ago, the world appeared to be entering a better place. From the end of World War II until the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cold War tensions had reached at times a breaking point. But with good leaders focused on the good of their people, and good people yearning for freedom, the doomsday clock paused. It seemed like we could all exhale. Unfortunately, the world is not entirely full of good leaders and good people. So, the unthinkable happened in the summer of 1990. Saddam Hussein, the “Butcher of Baghdad,” chose to invade Kuwait. The man who began and fought a...

Elbert: LBJ, Bush and Biden Friday, December 18, 2020 6:00 AM Not since Lyndon Baines Johnson has an incoming U.S. president had as much congressional experience as Joe Biden. Nor have we had a new chief executive with as much foreign policy experience since George Herbert Walker Bush.  The obvious thing that Biden has in common with Johnson and Bush is that all three served as vice president before assuming full command, although their routes to power were vastly different.  Johnson became president following the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, from wh...

AG Bill Barr steps down Bill Barr U.S. Attorney General William Barr will resign office before Christmas, President Donald Trump announced in a tweet this afternoon. Trump said the two had a "very nice meeting" and that their "relationship has been a very good one." Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen will become acting attorney general, Trump said. According to the Justice Department website, Barr received his A.B. in government from Columbia University in 1971 and his M.A. in government and Chinese studies in 1973. From 1973 to 1977, he served in the Centr...

Reply Mayor Dan Rivera speaks, with Gov. Charlie Baker behind him, in the wake of the 2018 Merrimack Valley gas explosions. ( (Jenna Fisher/Patch) LAWRENCE, MA — Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera was named the new CEO of MassDevelopment, the agency said Thursday. Gov. Charlie Baker nominated Rivera and the agency's board voted unanimously to confirm him at their meeting Thursday. The Democratic mayor, an ally of the Republican governor, will succeed Lauren Liss as CEO of the semi-public development and finance agency. The agency helps finance housing, cultural and business development. Subscribe "I...