LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley President Donald Trump has retained Marc Kasowitz, a veteran litigator and longtime associate, to counsel him through ongoing law enforcement probes into alleged collusion between members of his campaign and Russian officials. Kasowitz is a partner at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, a commercial litigation shop in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson A prominent Russian journalist and known critic of President Vladimir Putin died Wednesday after getting severely beaten March 9 in St. Petersburg. Nikolai Andrushchenko, 73, was attacked by unknown assailants and spent the last six weeks of his life in a coma. Andrushchenko co-founded weekly newspaper Novy Peterburg…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The U.S. military purposefully avoided targeting areas of the Syrian base struck by Tomahawk missiles where Russian forces were believed to be present, a Department of Defense spokesperson said Thursday. No casualties, Russian or otherwise, have yet been identified, and the DOD also noted the Russians were notified…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer clashed with April Ryan, the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, Tuesday at the White House Press Briefing. “With all of these investigations, questions of what is-is, how does this administration try to revamp its image?” Ryan asked Spicer. “Two…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read Russia’s secret deployment of a new cruise missile may constitute a violation of a crucial arms control agreement dating back to the Cold War, Trump administration officials told the New York Times Tuesday. The weapon in question is known as the SSC-8, an intermediate-range, ground-based cruise missile which…
By Saagar Enjeti UPDATE 12/19/16 1:00PM EST: The Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, has been assassinated by a Turkish police officer. The attack is reportedly in retaliation for the recent crisis ongoing in Allepo, Syria, according to The Mirror UK. The gunman reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” and said in Turkish “We die in Aleppo, you die here”…
By Russ Read Sen. John McCain is convinced that Russia was involved in the hacking of various Democratic party email accounts and servers. There is “no doubt about the hacking,” McCain said Monday while appearing on “CBS This Morning.” He referred to the intrusions as “another form of warfare.” McCain noted that the Senate Committee…
by Saagar Enjeti Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov forced his three young sons, ages 10, 9 and 8, to participate in child-MMA fights on Russian national television Tuesday. Kadyrov featured a video of his son entering the ring to music, lights and fanfare on his Instragram account. WATCH: Дорогие друзья! Маленький Адам доказал, что он действительно Лев! Адам…
A recent hack of the Democratic National Committee has proven embarrassing for the party but left many talking concernedly about foreign influence in U.S. elections. The concerns are amplified by the Trump campaign’s reported ties to Russia. As if he were deaf to these concerns, Donald Trump today called for Russian hackers to commit espionage against…
By Saagar Enjeti Wikileaks released a trove of 20,000 DNC emails three days before the DNC’s week-long nomination party for Hillary Clinton, raising questions as to whether Russia is actively intervening in the U.S. election to undermine the Democratic candidate. The DNC email leak has roiled the internal party structure, forced the resignation of DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schulz,…