Tag: Russia

Robert Mueller is sworn in during the start of a hearing on on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Lindsey Graham says he’ll grant request from Democrats for Mueller to testify

Jerry Dunleavy · July 12, 2020 5:42 pm

Roger Stone, center left, with his wife Nydia Stone leave federal court Washington, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. Stone, longtime friend of President Donald Trump, has been found guilty at his trial in federal court in Washington.

Second Republican senator condemns Trump decision to commute Roger Stone sentence

Zach Halaschak · July 11, 2020 8:55 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.

Trump admits he authorized 2018 cyberattack on Russian troll farm

Anthony Leonardi · July 11, 2020 2:38 am

Then-Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn testifies on Capitol Hill last year. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

FBI concluded Flynn wasn’t an agent of Russia and didn’t believe he was trying to lie, notes show

Jerry Dunleavy · July 10, 2020 5:43 pm

National Security

China rejects US demands to join nuclear talks

Caitlin Yilek · July 10, 2020 12:28 pm

Special counsel John Durham.

John Durham might ‘punt’ until after 2020 election if investigation not done by summer’s end: Report

Jerry Dunleavy · July 9, 2020 9:25 pm

In this file photo released Monday Nov. 9, 2019 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria. Assad has his prime minister Thursday, June 11, 2020, a month ahead of elections as country's economic crisis worsens.

International chemical weapons watchdog condemns Syria for deadly sarin and chlorine attacks

Zach Halaschak · July 9, 2020 7:41 pm

BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN - JUNE 3: U.S. soldiers of the 82nd Airborne prepare to board a Chinook helicopter at the end of Operation Dragon Fury June 3, 2003 in Bagram, Afghanistan. The operation took place in the Showi Kowt Mountains in Eastern Afghanistan, in the same vicinity as Operation Anaconda, and was the largest since that mission was undertaken in March 2002. (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)

National Security

Trump administration investigating classified Russia-Taliban bounty leaks

Jerry Dunleavy · July 9, 2020 12:04 am

US believes China willing to talk about ‘dangerous’ nuclear arms buildup

Joel Gehrke · July 8, 2020 9:22 pm

Glenn Simpson, co-founder of the research firm Fusion GPS, arrived for a scheduled appearance before a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Fusion GPS received hundreds of thousands of dollars in small-business loans during pandemic

Jerry Dunleavy · July 8, 2020 8:22 pm

Journalists and others quickly reacted on social media and tried to guess the topic of the conversation. (John Macdougall/Pool Photo via AP)

Beltway Confidential

The Angela Merkel fallacy

Tom Rogan · July 8, 2020 7:13 pm

Beltway Confidential

Congress cares more about #BountyGate than the war in Afghanistan itself

Daniel DePetris · July 8, 2020 6:41 pm