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Chris Lefkow

Chris Lefkow is AFP Editor-in-Chief, North America, covering Metro D.C., Technology His reporting has also appeared at Yahoo, France 24, Times of Israel, Military.com, La Presse, Mail & Guardian, Daily Star (Lebanon), El Nuevo Herald, and Japan Today.

Far Right
White Terrorist in Coast Guard who Plotted Mass Killings of Dems, Journalists is Arrested

White Terrorist in Coast Guard who Plotted Mass Killings of Dems, Journalists is Arrested

Chris Lefkow

By Chris Lefkow | – Washington, DC (AFP) – A US Coast Guard officer who espoused white supremacist views and drafted a target list of Democratic politicians and prominent media figures has been arrested on firearms and drug charges. Christopher Paul Hasson, 49, an admirer of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, was arrested last week […]

Plutocracy
Billionaire Wilbur Ross on Unpaid Fed Workers:  "Let them Eat Debt!"

Billionaire Wilbur Ross on Unpaid Fed Workers: “Let them Eat Debt!”

Chris Lefkow

By Chris Lefkow | – Washington, D.C. (AFP) – Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary fueled accusations Thursday that the US administration was deaf to the impact of the government shutdown after saying he didn’t understand why some federal workers were turning to food banks. Wilbur Ross shrugged off the impact of the shutdown — now […]

Democratic Party
Taylor Swift to GOP & Kanye: I'ma Let you Finish but First I'm Registering 65K New Dem Voters

Taylor Swift to GOP & Kanye: I’ma Let you Finish but First I’m Registering 65K New Dem Voters

Chris Lefkow

Washington (AFP) – The bad blood between Taylor Swift and Kanye West goes way back. At the 2009 MTV Music Video Awards, he famously interrupted an acceptance speech by the then 19-year-old Swift for Best Female Video to say that Beyonce deserved the honor. “Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish, but […]

Russia
Mueller: 12 Russian Agents indicted for Hacking Dems on Day Trump asked them to

Mueller: 12 Russian Agents indicted for Hacking Dems on Day Trump asked them to

Chris Lefkow

Twelve Russian military intelligence officers were indicted by a US grand jury on Friday

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