The Biden administration imposed tough new sanctions on Russia to hold the country accountable for its interference in the 2020 U.S. election, cyberattacks against both federal agencies and private companies, as well as its ongoing occupation in Crimea. The wide-ranging measures announced on Thursday, include sanctions against six Russian companies, …
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One of the more comical episodes recounted in Robert Mueller’s report occurred in the summer of 2017 when President Trump, days after futilely ordering the special counsel fired, dictated a note to Corey Lewandowski. The president told his former campaign manager to copy down a speech for then-Attorney General Jeff …
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WASHINGTON — Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Trump, had his sentence postponed by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan didn’t mince words in his courtroom remarks, barely hiding his outrage as he pointed out that Flynn had …
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WASHINGTON —It’s been an extraordinary 24 hours in the world of Paul Manafort. On Monday evening, Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in an explosive new court filing that Manafort, the disgraced former Trump campaign chairman and Republican lobbyist, had lied to the FBI and the special counsel’s office despite signing …
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Quick, name someone who Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both know and venerate. Give up? Try Fedor Emelianenko, a 230-pound, Ukrainian-born MMA fighter, widely described as the best MMA scrapper of all time – and one of the scariest, battle-scarred combat veterans ever to have entered the octagon. Consider this …
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When Luke Harding sat down with Christopher Steele in a London pub in December 2016, he hoped Steele might help him develop an admittedly thin lead that Russia covertly financed Donald Trump‘s campaign. At the time, Steele was a relatively unknown former British intelligence officer, despite the fact that he …
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