Prosecutors say Maria Butina gathered intelligence on U.S. officials and organizations through her NRA contacts.
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OPEC and Russia agree to oil production curbs
However, there’s no deal yet on the size of the reductions.
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Side issues may overshadow G-20 summit
A trade war between the United States and China, the killing of a Saudi journalist and the conflict over Ukraine threaten to disrupt the gathering.
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Dana Milbank: Americans can see the facts are closing in on Trump
They no longer need to trust the media’s words as his bogus claims are crumbling publicly.
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International panel grills Facebook executive over privacy concerns
Richard Allan, the company’s vice president for policy solutions, appears in London in Mark Zuckerberg’s place.
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Cooler heads not panicking about post-Sessions Mueller probe
Here are a few reasons why a new attorney general is not such a threat – yet – to the special counsel.
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Americans borrow Russian tactics in spreading fallacies before elections
Forget the Kremlin’s 2016 meddling – this year, U.S. citizens are doing a ‘devastatingly effective’ job of dividing the country on their own.
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Facebook blocks 115 accounts tied to election meddling
The social media giant shuts down 30 Facebook accounts and 85 Instagram accounts over suspected ties to foreign groups stoking division among the electorate.
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U.S. weighs new sanctions on Russia over poisoning of its former spy in Britain
The State Department determined in August that Russia violated a U.S. chemical weapons law in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter, who survived.
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Commentary: Relax, people – we survived Nixon, and we’ll survive Trump
In many ways the Trump presidency is like deja vu all over again. Except that Trump is, at least for conservatives, arguably much better than was Nixon.