NRA President Offered to Work With Accused Russian Spy’s Group in Moscow
The NRA’s David Keene with Butina in Moscow, Nov. 2013Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an investigation published on Thursday, Mother Jones documented the deep ties between the National Rifle Association and two Russians accused by the FBI of carrying out a malign political influence operation inside the United States: Maria…
The NRA Has Deep Ties to Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina
Maria Butina in Moscow, in a photo she posted to Facebook in October 2013 Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, the National Rifle Association has promoted its hard-line politics with appeals to patriotism, freedom, and the staunch defense of the Second Amendment. But now, the controversial gun lobbying group…
US Indicts Russian Gun Activist Who Interacted with NRA and the Trump Campaign
Federal prosecutors have charged Maria Butina, a Russia gun-rights activist with a long history of interactions with the National Rifle Association and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, for conspiring to act as a Russian agent without registering with the US Department of Justice. In a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday, federal prosecutors charge that Butina, 29,…
Trump Says White Supremacist Terror Is Fake News. These Chilling Cases Prove Otherwise.
Suspects in custody in Portland, OR, and Orange County, CABeth Nakamura/The Oregonian/AP; Ken Steinhardt/The Orange County Register/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four days after a homemade bomb blew through the window of a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, in August 2017, Sebastian Gorka, then a national security aide to President…
He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steffanie Strathdee hunched over her laptop, fretting. She barely noticed the kittens asleep next to her or the serene Buddha figure across the living room, anchored next to the glass doors that looked toward the gleaming Pacific. Her mind was 20 miles away in the…
The Pentagon Considers This Russian Sniper Rifle a Big Threat to US Soldiers. The NRA Helped Promote It.
In late 2016, the US Army released a report noting that the Russian military, through experience gained during fighting in Ukraine, was undergoing a transformation and becoming a more potent battlefield threat to American forces. One troublesome development identified by the report’s authors was the increased proficiency of Russian snipers. “The capabilities of a sniper…