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Russian Lawyer at Trump Tower Meeting Lied About Kremlin Ties, Prosecutors Charge

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya on November 8, 2016Yury Martyanov/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Federal prosecutors have charged Natalia Veselnitskaya with lying in sworn statements about her ties to Russia’s top prosecutor, a new indication that Veselnitskaya acted as a Kremlin agent when she attended the infamous June 2016…

Lyndon LaRouche Is Still Alive and He’s Been Hobnobbing With Roger Stone

Mother Jones illustration; Bill Clark/CQ/ZUMA; Eckhard Herfet/dpa/AP; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Eleven days after President Donald Trump’s election, Roger Stone, a longtime self-proclaimed GOP dirty trickster and Trump adviser, invited an unusual guest on his short-lived radio show, Stone Cold Truth, and began the interview with a question about…

After Propaganda, Conservative News Was the Most Popular Content Pushed by Russian Trolls

Arriens/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian internet trolls helped expand the reach of conservative media outlets as part of a Kremlin campaign to influence US politics and sow social discord, according to a new report commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Conservative content resonated heavily with the trolls’ Facebook…