Section: US & Canada
GOP fundraiser adds to work as foreign agent
WASHINGTON A GOP fundraiser-turned-foreign agent has updated his registration with the Justice Department, disclosing he’s lobbying in the United States for a businessman in Ukraine. Fundraiser Yuri Vanetik, a Russian … Click to Continue » …read more Source: Miami...
‘Secret Empires’ Author: The Next Frontier in Corruption is China Buying Off Politicians’ Kids
Peter Schweizer joined Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow on Wednesday to discuss the corruption rampant among America’s imperial political families, especially those bought off by an increasingly brazen and aggressive China. …read more Source:...
No, Putin Isn’t Bluffing on Nukes
Earlier this month in his State of the Nation address to the Russian legislature, President Vladimir Putin unveiled several new strategic weapons designed to nullify any missile defense shield the United States has deployed, is currently deploying, or will seek to deploy in the next 10 to 15 years. Putin said these new Russian weapons were...
Russia’s Top Election Official Blasts US Accounts of Restricted Poll Monitoring
Russia’s top election official has lashed out at U.S. State Department criticism that in the recent presidential election, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) denied observer status to 4,500 monitors linked to anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny, along with 850 others with ties to Golos, the independent Moscow-based...
Watch a rocket carrying two Americans and one Russian blast into space
The United States and Russia seem to be in opposing camps on issue after issue of late. To list a few: the war in Syria, alleged interference in U.S. elections, Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, and the poisoning of a former spy in Britain. Outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson addressed some of the U.S. concerns […] …read more...
Foreign election interference a reality, says Trudeau after Putin re-election
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada needs to be vigilant about protecting the integrity of its electoral systems from foreign interference. He offered that assessment in a Toronto press conference in response to questions about the influence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was re-elected this week to six more years in...
Trump: ‘The Fake News Media Is Crazed’ Over Congratulating Putin on Election Victory
President Donald Trump on Wednesday explained via Twitter his reasons for congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on winning reelection. The Washington Post reported Tuesday night that Trump’s briefing materials instructed him not to congratulate Putin, who won reelection on Sunday, when the two talked on the phone. It is unclear...
Trump thinks Russia will help solve the problems it created in the first place
Trump used Twitter to explain his baffling call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was more confusing than clarifying. President Trump just explained why he ignored the advice of his top advisers and congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his rigged election win: He thinks Moscow can help solve big global problems, including the...
Trump Twitter rages at anyone who would question his Putin love
Donald Trump is upset. He’s upset that his sieve-like White House spilled that he ran over his own advisers in his haste to pass his congratulations to Vladimir Putin. And he’s upset that Americans don’t immediately agree with him that it’s only right to give Putin some sugar at this particular moment. xI called President...
The Strange Tale of Trump’s Phone Call to Putin
“DO NOT CONGRATULATE.”That was the instruction that President Donald Trump received on briefing materials before he called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to discuss Putin’s victory in a reelection widely regarded as corrupt.But Trump did congratulate Putin, and he also declined to bring up the recent poisoning of an ex-Russian...
