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Court OK’d secret monitor of Trump adviser by FBI
The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said. Related Articles President Trump is getting out of the modeling business, report says...
Sean Spicer: ‘Someone as despicable as Hitler didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons’
By Callum Borchers, (c) 2017, The Washington Post White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday tried to emphasize the depravity of Syria’s use of chemical weapons on civilians, but the way he did it – by crediting Adolf Hitler with a measure of restraint – struck many journalists as confusing and insensitive. “We didn’t use...
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner go on vacation but still get more White House power
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are finding out the various ways it can be helpful to their careers when Dad is the boss. Related Articles Senate panel plans to interview Trump son-in-law Kushner in Russia probe Ivanka Trump’s using White House power to promote fashion brand, San Francisco retailer alleges Ivanka Trump played key role in her...
Russia: Alexei Navalny jailed for 15 days after huge opposition protest
MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on Russian opposition protests (all times local): 3:20 p.m. Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny attends a hearing in Moscow on March 27, 2017. (Vasily Maximov, AFP Getty) Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been jailed for 15 days for resisting police orders. A court in Moscow on Monday ruled to arrest Navalny, who was...
Adam Schiff: Democratic star with S.J. ties
The Democrats in Washington, D.C., suddenly have an unlikely breakout star: U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, a veteran legislator who is not as ideological as Bernie Sanders, not as confrontational as Elizabeth Warren, not as tarnished as Cory Booker. In truth, Schiff could be called geeky. He’s a careful ex-prosecutor who builds his...
Here are 10 critics of Vladimir Putin who died in suspicious ways
By David Filipov, (c) 2017, The Washington Post MOSCOW – Not everyone who has a quarrel with Russian President Vladimir Putin dies in violent or suspicious circumstances – far from it. But enough loud critics of Putin’s policies have been murdered that Thursday’s daylight shooting of a Russian who sought asylum in Ukraine has led to...
Kremlin critic gunned down by Russian agent, Ukrainian official says
MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Ukrainian official says the killer of Kremlin critic Denis Voronenkov, who was gunned down in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, was a Russian agent. Denis Voronenkov (Roman Yarovitcyn/Kommersant Photo via AP) Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, identified the man who shot Voronenkov on Thursday...
Russian ex-lawmaker shot dead in Ukraine after criticizing Kremlin
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Former Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov was shot and killed in Kiev Thursday in what the Ukrainian president described as an “act of state terrorism” by Russia, an accusation the Kremlin quickly rejected. Voronenkov, who testified to Ukrainian investigators and criticized Russian policies after his move to Kiev last fall,...
AP Exclusive: Manafort had plan to benefit Putin government
By JEFF HORWITZ and CHAD DAY WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The...
Trump repeats wiretapping claim after U.S. apology to Britain
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (all times local): 2:45 p.m. President Donald Trump says his White House shouldn’t be blamed for quoting a Fox News analyst who accused British intelligence of helping former President Barack Obama spy on him. There is no evidence...
