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…
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…
House Dems Are Set to Take a Step to Help Robert Mueller Prosecute Perjury
Donald Trump Jr. during his interview with the Senate Intelligence Committee on December 13, 2017.Alex Wong/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House intelligence committee is set to vote Wednesday to formally send the Justice Department transcripts of interviews from the panel’s investigation into Russian election interference, a step…
A Tough Federal Judge Told Roger Stone It’s Time to Shut Up
Roger Stone leaves federal court on February 1, 2019.Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. United States District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson may do something many Americans have long hoped for: shut up Roger Stone. Since his January 25 arrest on charges of obstructing of justice, witness tampering,…
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…