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,…
No One Loves Donald Trump More Than Vladimir Putin
Hamburg, Germany, July 2017Mikhail Klimentyev/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With his efforts to help Donald Trump become president by meddling in the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin has already done more to advance Russia’s foreign policy goals and worldview than anything he could have imagined in his wildest dreams as…
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…
Trump: US Would Be at War With North Korea If Not for Me
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that were it not for his leadership, the United States would currently be at war with North Korea. The president did not offer any evidence to support the bold assertion, which comes amid US intelligence warnings that…
The Pentagon Just Gave up the Pretense of Deterring Conflict
U.S. Department of Defense Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a shift that defied twenty years of precedent, the US Department of Defense changed the mission statement on its website recently. Instead of using its 2 million staff members to “deter war,” as has been its stated mission since the Clinton administration, the department will “provide…