Tag: Russia

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

Pump jacks and wells are seen in an oil field on the Monterey Shale formation.

Beltway Confidential

US green groups carry out Russia’s bidding in fracking fight

Kevin Mooney · October 12, 2018 12:00 am

Glenn Simpson, co-founder of the research firm Fusion GPS, arrived for a scheduled appearance before a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Fusion GPS co-founder rejects House Judiciary Committee subpoena

Diana Stancy Correll · October 11, 2018 10:59 pm

Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, conducts a service at the Volodymysky Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, on Thursday. The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate says it will move forward with its decision to grant Ukrainian clerics independence from the Russian Orthodox Church.

Beltway Confidential

Splitting from Russia, Ukrainian Orthodox Christians win freedom (and Putin’s ire)

Tom Rogan · October 11, 2018 10:48 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are pictured.

Beltway Confidential

Why would the Saudis and Russians take such arrogant risks with their assassinations?

Tom Rogan · October 11, 2018 10:00 pm

Robert Mueller appears at a hearing in D.C.

Trump’s legal team composing written answers to Mueller questions

Diana Stancy Correll · October 11, 2018 9:29 pm

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-10 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station blasts off at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday.

Beltway Confidential

Latest Russian launch failure a reminder that US needs its own space program

Erin Dunne · October 11, 2018 6:30 pm

FILE - In this June 14, 2016 file photo, people stand outside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington. The computers of the House Democratic campaign committee had been hacked, an intrusion that investigators say resembles the recent cyber breach of the Democratic National Committee for which the Russian government is the leading suspect. (AP Photo/Paul Holston, File)

Trump campaign argues it’s not liable for WikiLeaks publication of DNC emails

Naomi Lim · October 11, 2018 4:42 pm

Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, in Washington.

Virginia judge: Paul Manafort plea deal in Washington ‘highly unusual’

Kelly Cohen · October 11, 2018 2:27 pm