Tag: Russia

The Latest on the ongoing investigations into allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 election (all times local): 2:20 p.m. The White House says President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to try to block testimony by fired FBI Director James Comey. Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders says the president's power to invoke privilege is "well-established." However, she says Trump will not take that step in order to ensure a "swift and thorough examination of the facts" related to Comey's firing and the multiple investigations into Russia's election meddling.

The special counsel investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia’s government has taken over a separate criminal probe involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and may expand his inquiry to investigate the roles of the attorney general and deputy attorney general in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, The Associated Press has learned.

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying two astronauts to Earth after a half-year aboard the International Space Station has landed. The capsule with Russia’s Oleg Novitsky and Thomas Pesquet of France descended under a red-and-white parachute and landed on schedule at 8:10 p.m. (1410 GMT) Friday on the steppes of Kazakhstan outside the city of Dzhezkazgan, about 2,200 kilometers (1,370 miles) southeast of Moscow.

President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that some “patriotic” individuals may have engaged in hacking but insisted Russia as a country has never done it, and he pledged Thursday to wait out U.S. political battles to forge constructive ties with President Donald Trump. The Russian leader lamented what he described as “Russo-phobic hysteria” in the U.S. that makes it “somewhat inconvenient to work with one another or even to talk,” adding that “someday this will have to stop.”

https://embed.air.tv/v1/embed/U36LxMwiRtWsL-4KZYb1Ng/oTBxQb-0S56gkw7m9smoBQ?video_sizing=fill-width&show_player_title=false&show_div_title=false&show_div_description=false&autoplay=true WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times EDT): 8 a.m. Russian President Vladimir Putin has lashed out at U.S. politicians whipping up...

https://embed.air.tv/v1/embed/eO4LGlkDRUStvpUphBopCg/oTBxQb-0S56gkw7m9smoBQ?video_sizing=fill-width&show_player_title=false&show_div_title=false&show_div_description=false&autoplay=true WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his right to share "facts pertaining to terrorism" and airline safety with Russia, saying in...

He has dominated Russian politics since becoming president on New Year's Eve 1999 when Boris Yeltsin resigned. Even when he stepped away from the Kremlin to become prime minister in 2008-2012 because of term limits, he remained effectively Russia's leader.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top law enforcement and intelligence officials are expected to testify next week on Capitol Hill about Russian activities to influence the...