Tag: Sanctions

The Treasury Department's report on Russian oligarchs is not a sanctions list, however, many individuals on the list are subject to current U.S. sanctions. Parts of the Treasury report still remain unclassified. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump administration ripped off Forbes to help form their report on Russian oligarchs: Report

Tristan Justice · January 30, 2018 6:02 pm

"He's not soft on Russia. That's not right," Kellyanne Conway said. "â¦ This president has been very tough about energy, about [the Islamic State], and we're trying to work together with Russia on big issues of the day like a denuclearized North Korea, which is everybody's business, in dealing with Syria." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Kellyanne Conway: Trump isn’t going ‘soft’ on Russia

Melissa Quinn · January 30, 2018 4:56 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin said his government was not planning retaliation against the U.S. despite being unhappy with the list.
(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Putin says Russia wants to boost US relations after Treasury targets oligarchs

Anna Giaritelli · January 30, 2018 1:10 pm

"Since World War II, we've had three Democratic supermajorities in the Senate. The first gave us the New Deal, the second gave us the Great Society, the third gave us Obamacare and Dodd-Frank," said Sen. Ted Cruz. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Ted Cruz touts his ‘relatively unusual position in the Senate’

Timothy P. Carney · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

Although the Trump administration has missed deadlines to enforce sanctions on the Russian state, the State Department says sanctions currently in place are hurting Russia's defense industry. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

National Security

State Department: New sanctions are deterring Russian defense sales

Joel Gehrke · January 30, 2018 1:28 am

North Korean soldiers prepare shells during a live-fire exercise near North Korea's southwest coast. (AP Photo)

North Korea scales back military exercises: Report

Anna Giaritelli · January 29, 2018 1:57 pm

In a Saturday press conference with Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (pictured above) said: "Like Poland, the United States opposes the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. We see it as undermining Europe's overall energy security and stability." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Rex Tillerson says ‘stability’ threatened by Russian pipeline

John Siciliano · January 27, 2018 4:33 pm

Treasury Sanctions More Russian, Ukrainian Entities Over Ukrainian Conflict and Crimea

Jenna Lifhits · January 26, 2018 9:05 pm

George Soros, billionaire and Democratic backer, spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday. (Jason Alden/Bloomberg)

National Security

George Soros: Trump is leading the US to nuclear war

Diana Stancy Correll · January 25, 2018 10:55 pm

In an interview today with the Washington Examiner's editorial board, Sen. Ted Cruz thinks that President Trump's stance on the Iran nuclear deal is a step in the right direction. "I think the president did the right thing when he decertified the agreement," Cruz said. "When he declined to sign the certification and told Congress he could not certify that Iran was in compliance with the deal or that it was in the national security interest of the United States, I vigorously encouraged the president to do that." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Is President Trump heading in the right direction on Iran?

Siraj Hashmi · January 24, 2018 8:25 pm

"Have to pay my respects there and thank them for their support," Mattis said of the Vietnamese while traveling with reporters on a trip to Indonesia. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Jim Mattis on Vietnam: Former foe now allied with US against North Korea

Jamie McIntyre · January 24, 2018 8:05 pm

In this undated photo distributed Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, Kim Jong Un visits the Chemical Material Institute of Academy of Defense Science at an undisclosed location in North Korea.(Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

National Security

US targets North Korea’s chemical weapons program with new sanctions

Joel Gehrke · January 24, 2018 4:01 pm