Tag: Russia

President Trump has said hes looking into the situation when asked this week whether hed use emergency authorities to stop Saudi Arabia's oil from coming to the U.S.

Energy and Environment

Trump pressured to stop deluge of Saudi oil headed to US in tankers

Josh Siegel · April 24, 2020 4:00 am

Paramilitary policemen wear face masks as they march in formation into a pedestrian underpass next to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. China said Tuesday the number of infections from a new virus surpassed 20,000 as medical workers and patients arrived at a new hospital and President Xi Jinping said "we have launched a people's war of prevention of the epidemic."

National Security

‘Xi Jinping’s Chernobyl’: Experts say Chinese disinformation aims to distract world from coronavirus failures

Jerry Dunleavy · April 23, 2020 10:41 pm

Roger Stone prosecutor who resigned from Justice Department finds new DC job

Anthony Leonardi · April 23, 2020 7:24 pm

John Durham is pictured.

John Durham expands investigative team amid coronavirus outbreak

Jerry Dunleavy · April 23, 2020 2:12 pm

China said Tuesday it would take unspecified countermeasures after the US imposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of its exports, raising the prospect of a full-blown trade war.

Chinese agents helped spread coronavirus panic in US via social media and texts

Emma Colton · April 23, 2020 1:20 pm

Special counsel John Durham.

Barr: Timetable of John Durham review unrestrained by 2020 election

Jerry Dunleavy · April 22, 2020 8:08 pm

Beltway Confidential

Coronavirus propaganda is 2020’s version of 2016’s fake news

Daniel DePetris · April 22, 2020 6:06 pm

President Trump and Nancy Pelosi are seen.

Pelosi wonders if Putin is blackmailing Trump ‘personally, politically, financially in any way’

Mike Brest · April 22, 2020 5:57 pm

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Devon Nunes, R-Calif., questions Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire as he testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019.

Devin Nunes: ‘Obama’s dossier’ a subject of criminal referral to Justice Department

Daniel Chaitin · April 22, 2020 1:19 am

Comey said he thinks the Ferguson Effect could be real, a position opposed by the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ex-FBI officials: Obama order drove push to include Steele dossier in report on Russian interference

Jerry Dunleavy · April 21, 2020 9:59 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting.

Beltway Confidential

Spying on Putin: Why 15 pages of the Senate Intelligence report are totally redacted

Tom Rogan · April 21, 2020 8:19 pm

Air Force Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

National Security

‘Exhaustion’ and ‘attrition’ in military medical response to coronavirus as Defense Department discusses widespread testing

Abraham Mahshie · April 21, 2020 8:08 pm