Deep Inside a Pro-Putin Network That’s Helping Trump Divide America
Putin and Trump at a summit in Helsinki, July 2018Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every day, the roughly 600 Kremlin-linked accounts tracked in real time on the Hamilton 68 dashboard dive into the hot Twitter topics of the moment. They have fanned rancor over the NFL’s #TakeAKnee…
#ProtectMueller Protesters Shut Down Streets in Midtown Manhattan: “We Have to Resist”
Times SquareSam Van Pykeren/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Large crowds gathered in New York’s Times Square Thursday night to call for protections for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Protesters later seemed to shut down traffic as they marched south down Broadway. Other…
House Dems Already Have Their List of Trump Scandals to Investigate. Here It Is.
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here comes the flood. With the Democrats having won control of the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump and his crew in the White House and assorted federal agencies can expect to be hit by a wave of investigations and subpoena requests from…
Text Messages Show Roger Stone Was Working to Get a Pardon for Julian Assange
Mother Jones illustration; Emily Molli/NurPhoto/ZUMA; Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In early January, Roger Stone, the longtime Republican operative and adviser to Donald Trump, sent a text message to an associate stating that he was actively seeking a presidential pardon for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange—and felt optimistic…
New Justice Department Case Shows Russia Is Now Attacking the Midterm Elections
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in JulyValery Sharifulin/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia unsealed a criminal complaint accusing a Russian national named Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova of conspiring to interfere in…
DOJ Charges Russian With Conspiring to Disrupt 2018 Elections
Kremlin pool/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Justice Department on Friday filed a complaint against Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, a 44-year-old Russian national who, prosecutors allege, was the chief accountant managing the finances for Project Lakhta, Russia’s political influence operation aimed at disrupting elections in the United States and other…