Tag: Russia

President Trump said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin to encourage him to resolve an oil price war with Saudi Arabia.

Trump, Putin discussed Mueller investigation during hourlong call

Caitlin Yilek · May 3, 2019 5:47 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Vladimir Putin, Russia's President, center, arrive for a news conference in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday, July 16, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

How on Earth could Trump have just had a positive conversation with Putin?

Tom Rogan · May 3, 2019 5:30 pm

Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York and chairman of the House Judiciary committee, listens during a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, May 2, 2019.

Nadler warns Barr of contempt proceedings as he issues new Mueller report offer

Diana Stancy Correll · May 3, 2019 5:12 pm

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, from left, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., confer after questioning Attorney General William Barr about special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2019.

National Security

Lindsey Graham on Venezuela: ‘Where is our aircraft carrier?’

Diana Stancy Correll · May 3, 2019 5:04 pm

President Trump holds a phone call in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Trump has hourlong talk with Putin about Mueller report, Venezuela, nukes

Steven Nelson · May 3, 2019 4:06 pm

Vice President Mike Pence listens in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office on the White House complex in Washington, during a meeting with family members of the six Citgo executives currently detained in Venezuela, Tuesday, April 2, 2019.

Pence says it offends him Trump campaign could have been spied on in 2016

Dominick Mastrangelo · May 3, 2019 3:35 pm

Magazine - Obituary

Obituary: Richard Lugar

Seth Mandel · May 3, 2019 4:00 am

The future is now

Jamie Dettmer · May 3, 2019 4:00 am

Magazine - Business

Campaigns ramp up cybersecurity

Melissa Quinn · May 3, 2019 4:00 am

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Army secretary knows the future is coming

Jamie McIntyre · May 3, 2019 4:00 am

Joergen Ree Wiig tries to reach the harness attached to a beluga whale before the Norwegian fishermen were able to removed the tight harness, off the northern Norwegian coast last Friday. The harness strap which features a mount for an action camera, says "Equipment St. Petersburg" which has prompted speculation that the animal may have escaped from a Russian military facility.

A whale of a defection: Suspected Russian military asset hides out in Norway

Zach Halaschak · May 2, 2019 10:19 pm

Vehicles make their way through flooded streets of Panorama City section of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles on Saturday.

James Clapper: Trump campaign was ‘essentially aiding and abetting the Russians’

Daniel Chaitin · May 2, 2019 9:27 pm