By MAGGIE HABERMAN MARCH 25, 2017 Boris Epshteyn, an official in the White House press office who had a contentious relationship with television producers and was once a frequent presence on TV himself, is leaving his job, according to three people with knowledge of the move. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story. The departure was treated […]
Michael Weiss 03.22.17 A lawyer connected to murdered Putin foe Sergei Magnitsky has been thrown from a window in Moscow. He was a witness for the U.S. Two common causes of death for contemporary Russians are heart attacks and falling to one’s end from great heights. In some cases, these fatal tendencies even have something to […]
Natasha Bertrand March 23rd, 2017 A Russian lawmaker and critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin who defected to Ukraine late last year was shot dead in Kiev at around noon local time on Thursday, multiple media outlets have reported. Denis Voronenkov, a former member of the Russian state Duma, or parliament, had obtained Ukrainian citizenship […]
By Pamela Brown, Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN March 22, 2017 Washington (CNN) The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, US officials told CNN. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story and video: This is partly what FBI […]
By Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day March 22 2017 WASHINGTON (AP) — Before signing up with Donald Trump, former campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly worked for a Russian billionaire with a plan to “greatly benefit the Putin Government,” The Associated Press has learned. The White House attempted to brush the report aside Wednesday, but it […]
By Ed Adamczyk March 22, 2017 The lawyer for the family of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky was seriously injured in a four-story fall, officials said. CLICK IMAGE for link to story. Russia media reported that Nikolai Gorokhov fell when a rope broke as he and several others were attempting to lift a bathtub into his home near […]
By Peter Lance March 22nd 2017. Updated 2:35 pm PDT In an unprecedented move today, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) went to The White House and, in a unilateral meeting, briefed President Trump on classified information which he told reporters was part of the surveillance of Trump transition team members. “This is a […]
By Tom LoBianco March 22,2017 (CNN) House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s personal communications may have been picked up by investigators through “incidental collection.” Nunes said at a news conference he discovered the potential surveillance of Trump himself while reviewing intelligence reports, but said it was not related to Russia. […]
By Arshad Mohammed and John Walcott |March 21st, 2017 U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to skip a meeting with NATO foreign ministers next month in order to stay home for a visit by China’s president and will go to Russia later in April, U.S. officials said on Monday, disclosing an itinerary that allies may see as giving […]
By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN MARCH 20, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump began Monday as he has started so many other presidential mornings — by unleashing a blistering Twitter attack on critics who suggested his 2016 campaign colluded with the Russians. CLICK IMAGE for link to NYT story. By the afternoon the director of the F.B.I., James B. […]
