Tag: Russia

Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, speaks with reporters.

Carter Page files defamation lawsuit against DNC, Perkins Coie

Diana Stancy Correll · October 16, 2018 3:07 am

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill prays during a meeting of the Russian Orthodox Church Holy Synod in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. The Russian Orthodox Church decided Monday to sever ties with the leader of the worldwide Orthodox community after his decision to grant Ukrainian clerics independence from the Moscow Patriarchate.

Beltway Confidential

Russia’s Orthodox church puts imperialist politics before religious faith

Tom Rogan · October 15, 2018 8:55 pm

A North Korean man carries his country's national flag after celebrations of the "Day of the Shining Star" or birthday anniversary of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The celebrations of Kim's birthday anniversary, a revered national holiday, came as South Koreaâs president warned that North Korea faces collapse if it doesnât abandon its nuclear weapons program, amid an international outcry over Pyongyangâs January nuclear test and the Feb. 7 rocket launch.

US diplomat headed to Moscow for North Korea meeting

Joel Gehrke · October 15, 2018 7:52 pm

The Philippine Marines band cast shadows as they welcome the USS Blue Ridge to start its goodwill visit Sunday Feb.13, 2011 at Manila's South Harbor in Manila, Philippines. The flagship of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet is on a routine four-day port call and will conduct various civic-military activities in the country.

Beltway Confidential

Trump should open up military ports to US energy exporters

Tom Rogan · October 15, 2018 7:32 pm

Dan Hannan: US, Britain must arm for virtual wars if they want to preserve the world for freedom

Dan Hannan · October 15, 2018 4:00 am

From left, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Indian Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman raise their hands before a meeting in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. Pompeo and Mattis are holding long-delayed talks Thursday with top Indian officials, looking to shore up the alliance with one of Washington's top regional allies.

India tests US patience with Russia weapons deal

Joel Gehrke · October 15, 2018 4:00 am

"A president who spoke so movingly about the violent gun deaths of children here has taken on the job of sending mothers and children on one-way trips to the deadliest countries in our hemisphere," the Times wrote. (AP Photos)

National Security

Trump: I sent weapons to Ukraine, Obama ‘sent pillows and blankets’

Robert Donachie · October 15, 2018 12:21 am

"He appreciates what Bob Mueller is doing. He asked me to share that with him and that's what I've done." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump refuses pledge to not shut down the Mueller investigation

Daniel Chaitin · October 15, 2018 12:04 am

Saudi Arabia pushed oil prices lower by flooding the market with crude after Russia last month unexpectedly broke with a multi-year pact to cut production.

Saudi state-owned media warns Russia will exploit vacuum if US imposes sanctions

Robert Donachie · October 14, 2018 7:28 pm

An attorney for Glenn R. Simpson, co-founder of the research firm Fusion GPS, said during the closed hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee in August 2017: "[Simpson] wants to be very careful to protect his sources. Somebody's already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier, and no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson in ‘real legal jeopardy’, GOP investigator says

Daniel Chaitin · October 14, 2018 4:23 pm

PEN America officials join others as they hold signs of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a news conference about his disappearance, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018.

Trump can’t afford to shrug off Jamal Khashoggi’s apparent assassination

Washington Examiner · October 12, 2018 4:00 am

Wayne Freeman votes in the primary election at the Green Valley Presbyterian Church in Henderson, Nev., Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Officials reported âisolatedâ primary voting glitches Tuesday involving the state's new touch-screen voting machines in Nevadaâs two most populous areas, Las Vegas and Reno, and blamed a technical problem for delaying the count of ballots in one rural northern county.

National Security

Top US election official expects the ‘most secure election’ in recent history

Anna Giaritelli · October 12, 2018 2:53 am