Paul Manafort Lied to Robert Mueller About Russian Contacts, Judge Rules
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors about his contacts with a colleague who had suspected ties to Russian intelligence, activity that occurred while Manafort ran President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and continued into 2018. Judge Amy Berman Jackson found…
How Paul Manafort Couldn’t Stop Colluding With a Suspected Russian Intelligence Associate
Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, continued doing work in Ukraine after he was indicted.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A boatload of revelations produced by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has already yielded strong evidence that Paul Manafort was colluding with pro-Putin forces when he…
10 Years of Privacy Violations, Disinformation, and Friend Requests From Facebook
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Facebook assumed its central role in the information landscape, the company quietly made decisions that boosted profits with little regard to the consequences for privacy, politics, and the news industry. When those controversial calls and other travails associated with abuses of the platform gradually…
What Did Ivanka Know About Trump Tower Moscow? It Wasn’t “Almost Nothing.”
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an interview aired Friday, Ivanka Trump told ABC News that she knew “literally almost nothing” about her family’s secret pursuit of a deal to build a Trump-branded tower in Moscow during the 2016 campaign. Her claim, however, is contradicted by various sources, including…
Businessman Scrutinized in Inaugural Probe Helped Qataris Court Trumpworld
Aaron Bernstein/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On December 11, 2016, Ahmed al-Rumaihi, then the head of a branch of Qatar’s $320 billion sovereign wealth fund, dined with President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, at Manhattan’s Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue. The men discussed possible investments by…
The NRA Welcomed Maria Butina—Even As She Worked to Arm Anti-American Thugs Abroad
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American public has continued to know little about Maria Butina, who pleaded guilty in December to participating in a foreign conspiracy against the United States. Not much has emerged about the confessed Russian agent’s political activities beyond her efforts to build ties with Republican leaders…