All posts tagged "Russia"

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  Ryan backs Trump, cautions against ‘rush to judgment’

  Endorses investigations by House committees, but declines call for special prosecutor or select committee

  • Posted May 17, 2017
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  G-7 ministers aim to press Russia to end Assad support

  Contrary to Russia, Europe has broadly supported Trump's missile attacks on Syria

  • Posted April 10, 2017
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  Officials: St. Petersburg subway blast was suicide attack

  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – A 22-year-old suicide bomber born in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan was behind a blast on the St. Petersburg subway that killed 14 people, Russian investigators said Tuesday. There was no immediate...

  • Posted April 4, 2017
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  White House tells Russia probers: Come see intel yourselves

  WASHINGTON – The White House refused to say on Thursday whether it secretly fed intelligence reports to a top Republican investigating possible coordination between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. Fending off growing criticism, the administration invited...

  • Posted March 30, 2017
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  Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny gets 15 days in jail

  MOSCOW – The wave of nationwide demonstrations that shook Russia’s long dormant political scene over the weekend showed a new face of protest: mostly teenage demonstrators driven by accusations of high-level official corruption, glaring amid the nation’s...

  • Posted March 27, 2017
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  Spying claim by Intel chair renews fight over Russia probe

  WASHINGTON – The chairman of the House intelligence committee says private communications of Donald Trump and his presidential transition team may have been scooped up by American intelligence officials monitoring other targets and improperly distributed throughout spy...

  • Posted March 23, 2017
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  Trump says Dems ‘made up’ allegations of Russia interference

  WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Monday accused Democrats of making up allegations that Russia interfered in last year’s election, and said Congress and the FBI should be going after media leaks instead. His tweets came just...

  • Posted March 20, 2017
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  House probe into Russia ties to Trump off to rocky start

  WASHINGTON — A simmering dispute between leaders of the House intelligence committee spilled into the public Monday over an investigation into whether President Donald Trump has ties to Russia, even as they pledged to conduct a bipartisan...

  • Posted February 28, 2017
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  House Intel chair: Trump-Russia ties can’t become witch hunt

  WASHINGTON — House Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes said Monday that Congress should not begin a McCarthy-style investigation based on news reports that a few Americans with ties to President Donald Trump had contacted Russians during the 2016 presidential...

  • Posted February 27, 2017
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  George W. Bush on Trump and Russia: We all need answers

  WASHINGTON — Former President George W. Bush said Monday “we all need answers” on the extent of contact between President Donald Trump’s team and the Russian government, and didn’t rule out the idea that a special prosecutor...

  • Posted February 27, 2017