Tag: Russia

Summer Zervos and Donald Trump.

Woodward book details ‘raging’ Trump at Robert Mueller appointment

Kelly Cohen · September 5, 2018 10:11 pm

President Trump listens as Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House on July 9, 2018, in Washington.

Kavanaugh declines to say whether he would recuse himself from cases involving Trump

Melissa Quinn · September 5, 2018 10:05 pm

British Prime Minister Theresa May listens at the start of her meeting with the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani inside 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, July 24, 2018.

Theresa May calls for crackdown on Russian spy agency

Joel Gehrke · September 5, 2018 8:57 pm

Justice Department official Bruce Ohr arrives for a closed hearing of the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Did Bruce Ohr’s contacts violate ‘established protocol’? GOP lawmaker wants to know

Diana Stancy Correll · September 5, 2018 7:51 pm

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani attend a news conference in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi on Nov. 22, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

US national security must shift to focus on the slow-burning threats of nation-states, not the flash of a terrorist attack

Erin Dunne · September 5, 2018 7:33 pm

Right-wing author linked to Roger Stone subpoenaed in Mueller investigation

Caitlin Yilek · September 5, 2018 6:40 pm

This still taken from CCTV and issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on Wednesday Sept. 5, 2018, shows Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov at Salisbury train station on March 3, 2018. British prosecutors have charged two Russian men, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, with the nerve agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury. They are charged in absentia with conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and use of the nerve agent Novichok.

Beltway Confidential

How the UK knows the Russian GRU carried out the Skripal assassination attempt

Tom Rogan · September 5, 2018 5:46 pm

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a key member of the group, walk through Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. With President Donald Trump wanting a legislative solution to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Meadows has said he will put together a working group to craft a conservative immigration plan.

Trump allies want Russia investigation documents declassified

Kelly Cohen · September 5, 2018 5:39 pm

James Comey talks with Robert Mueller.

Trump says he can provide ‘100 pictures’ of Comey and Mueller ‘hugging and kissing’

Daniel Chaitin · September 5, 2018 5:16 pm

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, left, accompanied by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are sworn in before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on 'Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms' on Capitol Hill in D.C.

Facebook, Twitter execs amping up user safeguards before 2018 elections

Joe Williams · September 5, 2018 4:28 pm

This Dec. 11, 2017 file photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Syrian President Bashar Assad watching troops march at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria.

Beltway Confidential

Here’s why Assad and Putin’s looming attack is so scary

Tom Rogan · September 5, 2018 4:15 pm

Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., right, speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing as Sen. Mark Warner listens.

Senate intel leaders vow tougher social media oversight with elections looming

Joe Williams · September 5, 2018 1:58 pm