https://freerepublic.com/tag/lakeamerica/ en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:16:27 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4393383/posts Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe paid an unannounced visit to Moscow yesterday, spending eight hours in the Russian capital before returning to the US. Though he visited the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied that they had met – though Ratcliffe certainly spoke to his counterpart Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s SVR external intelligence service, and other top Russian security officials. The list of topics urgent enough to prompt the first personal visit of a US cabinet-level official to the Kremlin in six months is short. Ratcliffe could have been responding to reports of a planned Russian escalation... The Spectator https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4393383/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:16:27 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4393358/posts President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.” The move comes amid the president’s repeated threats and taunts that he would do so amid his escalating trade war with Canada. “This is official, effective immediately,” Trump said after signing the order in the Oval Office. The president said he’d “filed all the necessary papers, documents, everything else” for the name change. “We notified all of the various people that we have to notify. So we’ve done everything that you have to do, and this is official, effective immediately,” he said. The order says... NBC News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4393358/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:14:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4393330/posts WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he exacerbates his trade war with Canada. The Republican president signed an executive order in the Oval Office that updated the lake's name for the U.S. geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however. News4Jax https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4393330/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:41:30 GMT