Maria Butina Claimed to Have a “Signed Cooperation Agreement” With the National Rifle Association
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Confessed Russian agent Maria Butina claimed more than five years ago that her gun rights group had entered into a “signed cooperation agreement” with the National Rifle Association, according to a contemporaneous account of a talk Butina gave to an Israeli organization. Butina, who pleaded…
NRA Ties to Russian Operatives Draw Growing Scrutiny From Congress
Alexander Torshin in Houston in May 2013Unknown Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As questions mounted last spring about two Russian operatives with ties to the National Rifle Association who tried to cultivate the Trump presidential campaign, the NRA made a rare public disclosure: The gun group said it had received about $2,500…
Here’s What Robert Mueller Says Paul Manafort Has Lied About
Paul ManafortMark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort lied repeatedly to prosecutors working under Robert Mueller after having agreed to cooperate with the investigation, obstructing the probe into ties between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, according to motion filed by special…
Trump’s Defense Secretary Says Russia Targeted the Midterms. What Does Mattis Know?
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Less than 12 hours after the White House confirmed reports that President Donald Trump had dinner with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Pentagon’s highest-ranking official accused Russia of attempting to interfere in the midterm elections. At the Reagan National Defense Forum in California on Saturday, Defense…
The Mueller Investigation Grows More Ominous for Trump and His Inner Circle
Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs a closed-door meeting with US senators about Russia and the Trump campaign, June 2017J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “The time that he can get away with lying to the American people all the time and evading accountability is coming to an end.”…
An Atomwaffen Member Sketched a Map to Take the Neo-Nazis Down. What Path Officials Took Is a Mystery.
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. It was a grisly scene inside Apartment 3722 at the Hamptons, a gated community in Tampa, Florida. One body lay face up on the floor, wedged between a wall and an air mattress. A handgun was stuffed in…