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When you look up “compassion” in the dictionary.Image: nikolsky SPUTNIK/KREM/REX/Shutterstock By Colin Daileda2017-03-08 15:33:24 UTC Sometimes people say words with their mouths but their faces tell you they don’t give one tiny shit about what they’re saying. This is not Vladimir Putin! The Russian president is a man of sincerity. Look at this tweet in…
President Trump accused former president Barack Obama of wiretapping his calls in Trump Tower. Here’s a timeline of their relationship since inauguration. (Thomas Johnson,Claritza Jimenez,Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) FBI Director James B. Comey asked the Justice Department this weekend to issue a statement refuting President Trump’s claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of…
Congressional Democrats are calling for the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions after news broke that he had failed to mention in his confirmation hearing that he had held discussions with a top official from the Russian government. “Jeff Sessions lied under oath during his confirmation hearing before the Senate.” House Minority Leader Nancy…
President Obama in December. Some in his administration feared that intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election could be covered up or destroyed. WASHINGTON — In the Obama administration’s last days, some White House officials scrambled to spread information about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election — and about possible contacts between associates…
Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during Sessions’s confirmation hearing to become attorney general. One of the meetings was a private conversation…
MOSCOW — A funny thing happened in Russia this past week: President Trump’s face, once ubiquitous on the talk shows and evening news programs that tack closely to the Kremlin’s political agenda, was suddenly absent. Gone. “Like they flipped a switch,” said Alexey Kovalev, a journalist at the Moscow Times who covers Russian state media. It’s not…
WASHINGTON In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call. When Putin raised the possibility…
The Kremlin wants an apology from Fox after the network’s host called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a killer” minutes before the most-watched TV event of the year. Bill O’Reilly made the comment during an interview with President Donald Trump that aired just before kickoff of the Super Bowl. “But he’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer,” O’Reilly…
A bill would eliminate criminal liability for domestic violence in Russia. Elizabeth Keatinge (@ekeatinge) has more. Buzz60 Russian lawmakers vote at the State Duma (lower parliament house) in Moscow, Jan. 27, 2017. The State Duma voted 380-3 to eliminate criminal liability for battery on family members that doesn’t cause bodily harm, making it punishable by…
Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times It is now two and one-half minutes to midnight. Our organization, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is marking the 70th anniversary of its Doomsday Clock on Thursday by moving it 30 seconds closer to midnight. In 2016, the global security landscape darkened as the international community failed to…