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…
“Somebody in Washington” Wanted the US-Mexico Border Covered in Razor Wire, and This Mayor is Pissed
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back when President Donald Trump sent thousands of soldiers to the US-Mexico border in the fall, his critics pointed out that the military’s presence was useless, that they couldn’t do much to secure the border. There was one thing, however, that they could do: Put…
Trump’s Decision to Nuke a Key US-Russia Treaty Fuels a Simmering Global Arms Race
President Donald Trump speaks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin during their July summit in Helsinki.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On December 8, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood beside Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the East Room of the White House and signed one of the most consequential…
Trump Says He Plans to Keep US Troops in Iraq
President Donald Trump speaks at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, December 26, 2018.Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he is committed to pulling troops out of Afghanistan and Syria. But in at times rambling remarks to CBS’s Face the Nation, Trump…
Investigators Are Zeroing in on Top NRA Leaders’ Russia Ties—and Challenging the Gun Group’s Story
David Keene, Maria Butina, and then-NRA President James Porter at the 2014 NRA annual conferenceVK Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After remaining all but mum for the past two years about news reports detailing its ties to Russia, the National Rifle Association finally spoke up this week. The gun group…
Trump Shut Down the Government to Protect National Security. He Hurt It Instead.
RomanBabakin/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days before President Donald Trump finally agreed to end the longest government shutdown in American history, federal employees were already sounding the alarm about the threat posed to national security. From airport employees to FBI agents, Trump’s insistence on security at the southern…