Section: US & Canada
Putin: Jews, Ukrainians 'with Russian citizenship' could be behind US election meddling
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that people with different ethnicities who hold Russian citizenship could be behind interference in the 2016 U.S. election.Putin said in a new NBC News interview that the U.S. was refusing to… …read more Source: The...
Putin Says That Jews ‘With Russian Citizenship’ May be Behind U.S. Election Meddling
“Maybe they are not even Russians but Ukrainians, Tatars or Jews but with Russian citizenship,” remarked the Russian leader when quizzed on U.S. electoral interference in an NBC interview. …read more Source:...
Putin on alleged US election interference: I don’t care
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says he doesn’t care about alleged Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election because the actions weren’t connected to his government. In an interview with American broadcaster NBC News that aired Saturday, Putin also suggested that some of the 13 Russian nationals indicted by...
Putin says Jews, Ukrainians, Tatars could be behind U.S. election meddling
Vladimir Putin says he doesn’t care about alleged Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. …read more Source: USA...
Why use a “back channel” when you’ve got a hotline? Mueller turns to the saga in the Seychelles
Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan; Donald Trump; Erik Prince (Credit: Getty/AP/Photo montage by Salon) Oftentimes, the best way to understand a complex news story is through the lens of your own experience. So I’ve got a question for you: When was the last time you traveled to an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean to meet up with people...
Ivanka Trump Backed Flynn and Manafort. She Discussed Firing Comey. How Has She Evaded Mueller’s Investigation?
Ivanka Trump is the ghost of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation: She is connected, either directly or tangentially, to events at the heart of the probe, yet all but invisible to the public. But as Mueller’s investigation broadens, the so-called first daughter is becoming a long overdue part of the bigger story of...
Income inequality in the U.S. is even worse than you’ve been led to believe
In this March 7, 2017 photo, a man wearing plastic bags in the rain carries belongings as he walks during a sweep to clear out people living at a homeless encampment known as “The Field,” in Seattle’s Stadium district south of downtown. Sixteen months after he declared a state of emergency on homelessness, Seattle’s mayor...
Putin on alleged US election interference: I don’t care
MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Putin says he doesn’t care about alleged Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election because the actions weren’t connected to his government. In an interview with the US TV network NBC, the Russian president was asked if he condoned the interference by 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies...
NATO Grants Ukraine Status Of ‘Aspirant Country’
NATO has granted Ukraine the status of an aspirant country to eventual membership in the 29-nation Western alliance. Georgia, Macedonia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina enjoy similar status. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Donald Trump’s Relentless Fixer: The Many Mysterious Doings of Michael Cohen
Why Trump is so worried about Stormy Daniels remains unclear. But if Michael Cohen is involved, it must be serious. If there is one person lurking around the shadows of every Trump scandal, it would be his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, known as the Tom Hagen of the Trump family, only with much less class and dignity than the original consigliere...
