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Mar 07 2019
News
Trump campaign ex-chief Manafort faces years in prison in sentencing
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will be sentenced by a U.S. judge in Virginia on Thursday for bank and tax fraud uncovered during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis could deliver effectively a life sentence to Manafort, 69, if he follows federal sentencing guidelines cited
Reuters
Apr 21 2014
News
Russia Says Ukraine Failing to Halt Extremists Seeking Civil War
Russia accused the Ukrainian government of failing to rein in extremists as escalating tensions threaten to undermine a diplomatic accord reached last week and stoke calls in the U.S. for economic sanctions.
Ukrainian and Russian officials traded accusations about responsibility for attacks that killed three during the weekend. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow called on the U.S
Bloomberg
Mar 06 2019
News
Michael Cohen returns to Hill on day he was supposed to report to prison
Michael Cohen was supposed to report to prison Wednesday to begin serving a three-year sentence for tax crimes, tax evasion and lying to Congress. Instead, President Donald Trump's former lawyer will be on Capitol Hill talking about the crimes he is now accusing Trump of committing.
Cohen, who is now slated to begin his prison term May 6, is back on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for his
CNN (Online News)
Oct 04 2015
News
Putin's Message: Stop Meddling in Mideast Affairs
"Do you realize now what you have done?" So Vladimir Putin in his U.N. address summarized his indictment of a U.S. foreign policy that has produced a series of disasters in the Middle East that we did not need the Russian leader to describe for us.
Fourteen years after we invaded Afghanistan, Afghan troops are once again fighting Taliban forces for control of Kunduz. Only 10,000 U.S.
Newsmax (News)
Jan 31 2015
News
Ukraine wants UN to label Russia as a sponsor of terrorism
Ukraine wants the United Nations to brand Russia a terrorism sponsor amid bloody clashes between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government troops.
The Ukrainian ambassador to the UN told Fox News he plans to submit a draft resolution asking the UN General Assembly to formally label “Russia as a sponsor of terrorism."
Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev gave no timetable for when he
Fox News (Online News)
Jun 10 2019
News
People Are Trying to Figure Out William Barr. He’s Busy Stockpiling Power.
Not long before Attorney General William P. Barr released the special counsel’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, he strategized with Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, about one of his next moves: investigating the investigators.
Over a dinner of steak, potatoes and carrots in a wood-paneled conference room off Mr. Barr
New York Times (News)
Feb 23 2019
Opinion
How Ballot-Harvesting Became The New Way To Steal An Election
With ballot-harvesting, paper votes are collected by intermediaries who deliver them to polling officials, presumably increasing voter turnout but also creating opportunities for mischief.
America’s electoral obsession isn’t Russian meddling anymore. It’s ballot-harvesting, a long-disputed practice implicated in fraud that’s come to the fore with the nationwide embrace of absentee
The Federalist
Jun 06 2019
News
FBI wiretap petitions for Trump campaign contained key errors
Four FBI wiretap applications targeting a Trump campaign volunteer were more inaccurate than previously known based on subsequent investigative information, an analysis shows.
The FBI applications to federal judges under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) are a central focus of the Justice Department’s special review of how the Obama administration started its probe into
Washington Times
Apr 19 2019
News
Mueller report poses new test for Dems
House Democratic leaders face a delicate balancing act now that the Mueller report is public.
Thursday's much-anticipated release of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings from his 22-month investigation into Russian election interference sparked a new round of Democratic promises to charge ahead with their various investigations into President Trump.
Yet Democrats won the
The Hill
Apr 19 2019
News
How Mueller's decision on obstruction helped save Trump
The U.S. Attorney General decided that President Donald Trump did not obstruct a probe into whether his campaign colluded with Russia, but some legal experts said prosecutors laid out a wealth of evidence to the contrary and that they intended to leave that determination to Congress.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed new details about Trump’s attempts to impede his
Reuters