Tag: Russia

Ilhan Omar delivers her victory speech to supporters in a packed ballroom Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Minneapolis. Omar is poised to become the first Somali-American elected to Congress, representing Minnesota's Fifth District.

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Rep. Omar backs Maduro regime, shares state-run propaganda on social media

Becket Adams · January 26, 2019 2:01 pm

Opposition leader Juan Guaido is surrounded by supporters as he arrives to speak in a public plaza in Caracas, Venezuela.

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In wading into Venezuela’s oil-drenched diplomatic quagmire, Washington must proceed with caution

Erin Dunne · January 26, 2019 1:23 pm

Reasons the committee wanted to speak with Stone include his prescient August 2016 tweet that "it will soon the Podesta's time in the barrel," more than a month before WikiLeaks released the Clinton campaign chairman's emails. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Roger Stone defiant in face of Mueller charges

Caitlin Yilek · January 26, 2019 5:10 am

Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump

Nancy Pelosi questions Trump’s ties to Putin after Roger Stone indicted

Caitlin Yilek · January 26, 2019 3:54 am

Seth Moulton

Democratic lawmaker from Salem, Mass.: Mueller investigation isn’t greatest witch hunt in US history

Diana Stancy Correll · January 25, 2019 7:53 pm

FILE - This April 11, 2011 file photo shows attorney Alan Dershowitz at a hotel in Kiev, Ukraine, where he was preparing to defend former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, who was accused in the murder of an investigative journalist more than 10 years ago. The papers of the prominent lawyer and author are now available to researchers at Dershowitz's alma mater, Brooklyn College. Dershowitz donated his papers to Brooklyn College rather than Harvard, where he is a professor.

Dershowitz on Mueller move against Roger Stone: ‘Trump is the target’

Steven Nelson, Melissa Quinn · January 25, 2019 5:27 pm

Special counsel Robert Mueller (left) and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort (right) are shown.

Manafort and Mueller to lock horns in court over whether lies breached plea deal

Kelly Cohen · January 25, 2019 5:04 pm

Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone takes a question from a member of the media after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Washington.

Roger Stone released on $250K bond after indictment in special counsel’s investigation

Melissa Quinn · January 25, 2019 5:03 pm

A man walks into the Center for American Progress, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, at their office in Washington.

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Top liberal think tank suddenly distressed by all that money it took from a foreign government

Becket Adams · January 25, 2019 4:47 pm

FILE: Roger Stone, former adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, stands outside beforeÂ a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., not pictured, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. Stone, a longtime Republican strategist and sometime confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested in Florida on Friday after being indicted in Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia before the 2016 U.S. election. Stone, 66, is facing seven counts: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

Defiant Roger Stone lawyer says his client is ‘vindicated’ by Mueller indictment

Katelyn Caralle · January 25, 2019 3:18 pm

Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone speaks to members of the media after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Washington. Stone says there is "not one shred of evidence" that he was involved with Russian interference in the 2016 election. Stone's interview comes as the House and Senate intelligence panels are looking into the Russian meddling and possible links to Trump's campaign.

In new Mueller indictment, what is Roger Stone charged with doing?

Byron York · January 25, 2019 3:14 pm

Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone departs after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Washington. Stone says there is "not one shred of evidence" that he was involved with Russian interference in the 2016 election. Stone's interview comes as the House and Senate intelligence panels are looking into the Russian meddling and possible links to Trump's campaign.

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Romanticizing Roger Stone as a puckish ‘trickster’ was probably a bad idea, huh?

Becket Adams · January 25, 2019 2:08 pm