LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he doesn’t believe Russian President Vladimir Putin ever paid President Donald Trump or Republican California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, telling reporters his 2016 comments were “a bad joke.” McCarthy’s clarification come after The Washington Post reported he made the allegations shortly before Trump…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he is prepared to hand over records of President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian officials earlier in May. The Russian leader announced that he can provide the House and Senate with transcripts of a conversation between Trump and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended several of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions in a recent interview with Politico Magazine. Rice went down the line of many of Trump’s most consequential foreign decisions in the early days of his Presidency, delivering a strong defense…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Russian President Vladimir Putin shrugged off news of FBI Director James Comey’s firing Wednesday in a brief interview with CBSNews. Our @elizapalmer caught Russian Pres. Putin rink side and asked him about the firing of former. Dir. Comey. pic.twitter.com/3nytJYi0si — CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) May 10, 2017 Putin appeared…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti A draft proposal from Russian brokered peace talks in Syria that now include the U.S. would divide the country into four safe zones, reports The New York Times. The proposal includes 4 safe zones for different territories controlled by different rebel groups and the Assad regime. Each zone…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Wednesday that the United States won’t mandate that other countries adopt human rights values as a precondition for a relationship. During a speech at the Department of State, Tillerson noted that when it comes to issues like national security, relationships with other…
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 Joshua Philipp, Epoch Times There are multiple investigations into whether a foreign power interfered with the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. They began with allegations of Russian meddling, yet have taken a new turn with the revelation that the Obama administration was monitoring the communications of the Trump team, possibly…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Russia has banned a picture depicting President Vladimir Putin in heavy makeup as “extremist,” reports the Telegraph UK. Russia’s justice ministry added the image, which depicts the Russian president in lipstick and mascara, to its list of banned extremist material last week, explains the Telegraph. The clown meme reportedly first appeared in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Blackwater founder Erik Prince established a back-channel for President-elect Donald Trump to communicate with a source close to Russian President Vladimir Putin in January, reports The Washington Post. The secret meeting between various U.S., European and Arab officials took place January in the Seychelles islands — about nine…