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Coats said that Russia not only interfered in the election but that its "efforts to undermine our democracy" are ongoing. » Read More
By: Dan Mangan
McCain's blistering take came after Trump refused to criticize Putin for what U.S. intelligence agencies have said was a concerted effort by Russians to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. » Read More |
Federal authorities arrested a Russian woman accused of conspiring to infiltrate American political organizations at the direction of a senior Kremlin official. » Read More |
By: Kevin Breuninger
Trump said Putin "offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people." » Read More |
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The House Victory Project infused ten Democratic campaigns with $2.2 million in their early efforts to flip the House of Representatives.
President Donald Trump began his meeting Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland by saying the pair will have an "extraordinary relationship."
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The indictment revealed several new details about the breadth of the Russian influence campaign, including alleged discussions the Russian hackers allegedly had with a U.S. congressional candidate and a friendly journalist.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who announced the indictments, asserted that the timing was based on "the facts, the law, and Department of Justice policies."
The Senate minority leader, the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and more than a dozen members of the Senate Foreign Relations committee all called on the president to cancel the meeting.
A Russian weapon the U.S. is currently unable to defend against will be ready for war as early as 2020, according to sources with direct knowledge of American intelligence reports.
- Special counsel Mueller charges Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democrats during election
President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly called Mueller's probe a "witch hunt," was briefed on the case earlier in the week and "the president is fully aware of today's actions by the department, said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
U.S. soybean prices are near decade lows as a result of the trade war with China, and farmers across the border in Canada are not seeing any upside but that could change later this year.
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President Donald Trump sought to walk back some of his more scornful rhetoric towards U.K. leader Theresa May on Friday afternoon, offering Westminster an unprecedented olive branch post-Brexit.
A state-controlled Beijing paper claims Chinese tourists are "reluctant to visit" the United States given the escalating trade war and safety concerns.
Strzok, who was removed from the Russia investigation, was previously questioned by members of Congress behind closed doors in an 11-hour marathon interview on June 27.
Manafort, 69, was transferred Thursday to the Alexandria Detention Center in Alexandria, Virginia, where the Republican strategist's first of two scheduled federal criminal trials is due to start July 25.
- Trump isn't the only president to push NATO allies to spend more on defense. Obama and Bush did, too
What makes Trump different is how central the issue has become to his assessment of NATO's fundamental value.
Daniels, 39, was arrested after Columbus, Ohio, police said she forced the faces of patrons of the club into her breasts and smacked their faces with her breasts. Daniels has claimed she had an affair with President Donald Trump in 2006.
McCain called President Trump's appearance this week at the NATO summit "disappointing, yet ultimately unsurprising."
After his Singapore summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, Trump agreed to call off the war games, saying "We save money. A lot."
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