MOSCOW (AP) – A top aide to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained Friday after he allegedly opened the door to a security guard who inadvertently leaked details of Navalny’s alleged poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent. Lubov Sobol, a key figure in Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, was detained for …
Read More »Veterans Affairs officials closed the briefing on Solarwinds Hack
VA Secretary Robert Wilkie testified during the March 27, 2019, hearing before the House ropri plots subcommittee in Washington, D.C. Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) Senior officials from the Veterans Affairs Department abruptly canceled a scheduled briefing with congressional leaders this week on the extent and impact. Solarwinds cyberrate ack …
Read More »Manafort benefits other allies from Trump’s new round of qualifications
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has pardoned more than two dozen people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his son-in-law’s father Charles Kushner, in a new wave of qualifications to benefit long-term allies and supporters. These actions of Trump’s invisible time at the White House bring the number …
Read More »Trump forgives 15, makes 5 sentences, including GOP allies
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans, a 2016 campaign official and former government contractor caught in a Russian investigation and convicted in the 2007 genocide in Baghdad. Trump’s actions in his final week in office show a president who …
Read More »Senator says “dozens” of top Treasury email accounts
Email accounts used by the senior leadership of the Treasury Department were compromised by suspected Russian government hackers who carried out A huge cyber espionage campaign According to Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, several U.S. federal agencies The Senate Finance Committee’s ranking Democrat said the “full depth” of the Treasury hack …
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