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Paul Manafort proposes $12.5 million bail package
Nov05

Paul Manafort proposes $12.5 million bail package

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is offering to post $12.5 million-worth of assets — including his Trump Tower apartment — as part of a bail package to ensure that he appears for the trial he’s facing on charges of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign lobbyist, Manafort’s defense team said Saturday....

Trump on Mueller probe: I’m ‘not angry at anybody’
Nov02

Trump on Mueller probe: I’m ‘not angry at anybody’

U.S. President Donald Trump told the New York Times on Wednesday that “I’m actually not angry at anybody” in relation to the ongoing Russia investigation, disputing a widely reported characterization that he has grown increasingly frustrated with the probe. “I’m not under investigation, as you know,” Trump told a Times reporter in a...

Trump and allies dismiss Papadopoulos as the ‘coffee boy’
Oct31

Trump and allies dismiss Papadopoulos as the ‘coffee boy’

President Donald Trump and his allies fought back Tuesday against special counsel Robert Mueller’s wave of indictments against former campaign aides, dismissing an ex-foreign policy adviser who cut a plea deal with prosecutors as a “liar” and nothing more than the “coffee boy.” The White House was rocked on Monday after Mueller’s team...

Inside White House, a sense of both danger and relief in Mueller’s first moves
Oct31

Inside White House, a sense of both danger and relief in Mueller’s first moves

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s first charges in his sprawling Russia investigation were a one-two blow that partially caught the White House off guard but also offered a measure of relief, according to several of President Donald Trump’s aides, advisers, lawyers and others close to the case. The indictments of former campaign...

Highlights from Mueller indictment of Manafort, Gates
Oct30

Highlights from Mueller indictment of Manafort, Gates

Paul Manafort and Richard Gates, two former top campaign officials for President Donald Trump, have been indicted on 12 counts, according to documents made public on Monday, making them the first people to be charged in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into 2016 foreign election interference. In a 31-page indictment, federal...

Former Trump campaign chief and official indicted on 12 criminal counts
Oct30

Former Trump campaign chief and official indicted on 12 criminal counts

WASHINGTON —Special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian election interference has dramatically escalated, with authorities indicting former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and unsealing a plea deal with a foreign policy adviser who lied about meeting with Russia-linked contacts. The moves...

Wary of Russia, Finns take another look at NATO
Oct30

Wary of Russia, Finns take another look at NATO

HELSINKI — For decades, Finland managed its delicate relationship with Russia by avoiding any move that could provoke the “sleeping bear” on its eastern border. Now, a retired senior diplomat is pushing his country to risk angering the beast — by joining the NATO military alliance. “This country deserves an open debate when it comes to foreign...

For Ukraine’s fishermen, ‘war changed everything’
Oct29

For Ukraine’s fishermen, ‘war changed everything’

PRYMORSKE, Ukraine — In the idle heat, a hundred eyes stare out from the tangle of fishing nets, the fish drying like tiny slivers of tinfoil under a stifling sun. Plastic buckets, battered hulls and lengths of knotted rope litter an otherwise empty beach. A few wooden dinghies bob on the sea’s flat, mercury surface; white light glares in...

Russian wargames played dirty, Nato says
Oct27

Russian wargames played dirty, Nato says

Nato head Jens Stoltenberg has said Russia misled it about the size of Baltic wargames, and warned that the Ukraine conflict remains “fragile”. …read more Source:...

Washington’s unlikely pair of NATO women
Oct26

Washington’s unlikely pair of NATO women

One is a lifelong Republican, a Donald Trump appointee, living abroad for the first time, whose only language is English — with a strong Texas twang. The other is a diehard Democrat, veteran of the Clinton and Obama administrations, fluent Russian speaker, and career expert on non-proliferation. These two women are the most senior Americans at...