Tag: Russia

Israeli woman Naama Issachar, sits inside a cage during appeal hearings in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019.

Putin pardons American-Israeli woman arrested for trafficking marijuana

Zach Halaschak · January 29, 2020 10:05 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to media at a campaign event, Saturday, July 27, 2019, in Derry, N.H.

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Criminalizing free speech online? Elizabeth Warren has a plan for that

Brad Polumbo · January 29, 2020 7:40 pm

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at Georgetown Law's second annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture, in Washington. Clinton told the BBC on Tuesday Nov. 12, 2019, that she's âdumbfoundedâ the U.K. government has failed to release a report on Russian influence in British politics as the country prepares for national elections on Dec 12. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, FILE)

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Hillary Clinton: Zuckerberg’s an ‘authoritarian’ for refusing to referee political speech on Facebook

Becket Adams · January 29, 2020 2:30 pm

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., delivers remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Monday, Oct. 30, 2017.

British ex-ambassador who alerted John McCain to anti-Trump dossier stands by Christopher Steele

Daniel Chaitin · January 29, 2020 2:04 am

BuzzFeed editor who published Steele dossier hired by New York Times

Daniel Chaitin · January 28, 2020 10:11 pm

People wear masks at a metro station in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. According to the Taiwan Centers of Disease Control (CDC) Tuesday, the eighth case diagnosed with the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been confirmed in Taiwan.

‘Panic’ in Wuhan: Coronavirus leaves expatriates and students ‘stranded’ in China

Spencer Neale · January 28, 2020 3:30 pm

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

CDC warns against travel to China because of coronavirus outbreak

Cassidy Morrison · January 28, 2020 2:47 pm

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019.

Hong Kong and Russia limit travel from China to halt spread of coronavirus

Caitlin Yilek · January 28, 2020 12:09 pm

Beltway Confidential

America has bigger fish to fry than Ukraine

Daniel DePetris · January 27, 2020 11:02 pm

Top British spy report: ‘Strong possibility’ that anti-Trump dossier was completely fabricated

Daniel Chaitin · January 26, 2020 7:13 pm

Beltway Confidential

Sorry, Adam Schiff, history shows you’re no John McCain on Ukraine

Tom Rogan · January 24, 2020 8:27 pm

‘We have not learned the lessons’: Holocaust survivor warns genocide persists around the world

Joel Gehrke · January 24, 2020 7:59 pm