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Last week, Lawrence Tribe suggested, without evidence, that a plane crash in Russia was related to fallout from the Russian dossier operation orchestrated and funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign. When it comes to the Russia-Trump collusion theory, a bit more journalistic rigor is in order.
A busy Friday of news included Mitt Romney, as expected, dropping this video announcing his Senate candidacy in Utah. It's a reminder that F. Scott Fitzgerald didn't write the book on life after presidential politics - there are second acts.
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday stepped up pressure on two former Trump campaign aides to cooperate in his probe into possible collusion with Russia, unsealing a criminal charge against a lawyer for lying to Mueller's investigators. The attorney, Alex van der Zwaan, the son-in-law of one of Russia's richest men, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to a charge of lying to the Special Counsel's office.
For all the thunder about Russian interference in the 2016 election, the indictment from the special counsel's office has all the excitement of a spam folder. Robert Mueller's investigation has produced charges against 13 Russians for sitting inside a building in St. Petersburg - Russia, not Florida - creating Facebook pages and posts, monitoring their "likes," advertising and promoting the posts and reaching many millions of Americans with their cartoonish snark.
A lawyer for a prominent law firm is pleading guilty to lying to federal authorities about his interactions with a former Trump campaign associate. Alex van der Zwaan is entering the plea in court in Washington where he is admitting to lying to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators about his interactions with Rick Gates.
Fox News host Shepard Smith chastised President Donald Trump Monday afternoon for his weekend tweet storm and for failing to address or promise ways to hinder Russia from meddling in future United States elections. The berating followed revelations made by the Special Counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Dallas police: U.S. Postal Service worker found fatally shot inside a mail truck along busy highway, case being investigated as a homicide. Dallas police: U.S. Postal Service worker found fatally shot inside a mail truck along busy highway, case being investigated as a homicide.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - While Russian officials scoff at a U.S. indictment charging 13 Russians with meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, several people who worked at the same St. Petersburg "troll factory" say they think the criminal charges are well-founded. Marat Mindiyarov, a former commenter at the innocuously named Internet Research Agency, says the organization's Facebook department hired people with excellent English skills to sway U.S. public opinion through an elaborate social media campaign.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Sunday that the Justice Department is investigating whether the FBI submitted accurate information about the infamous Steele dossier in order to obtain a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. "Are you, sir, investigating the fact that the FBI used the dossier to get a wiretap against Trump associates and they did not tell the FISA court that the Democrats and Hillary Clinton paid for the dossier?" Maria Bartiromo, the host of Fox's Sunday Morning Futures, asked Sessions.
Jeanie Forrester has some explaining to do. The chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party told Buzzfeed reporter Henry J. Gomez that she would be inclined to support President Donald Trump against any primary rivals in the 2020 New Hampshire Primary.
A reporter raises her hands to ask a question of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, after he announced that the office of special counsel Robert Mueller says a grand jury has charged 13 Russian nationals and several Russian entities, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, in Washington. The defendants are accused of violating U.S. criminal laws to interfere with American elections and the political process.
The election-interference indictment brought by US special counsel Robert Mueller underscores how thoroughly social-media companies like Facebook and Twitter were played by Russian propagandists. Thirteen Russians, including a businessman close to Vladimir Putin, were charged Friday in a plot to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election through social media propaganda.
Still silent on the role gun access played in last week's Florida school massacre, President Donald Trump lashed out at the FBI and suggested that the Russia election-meddling investigation impeded an opportunity to stop the teenage shooter. In a series of 15 Twitter posts over 19 hours late Saturday and early Sunday, Trump said it was "very sad" that the FBI missed clues from Nikolas Cruz, accused of the school attack, because the agency was preoccupied with the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election campaign.
File photo taken on Nov 11, 2017 shows US President Donald Trump meeting Russia's President Vladimir Putin during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang. WEST PALM BEACH: President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Russia was succeeding beyond its "wildest dreams" in sowing US discord but refrained once more from directly challenging Moscow on its election meddling.
Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper contradicted a tweet from a Facebook Inc. executive that said swaying the 2016 election wasn't the main aim of Russian interference outlined in a new indictment. "Clearly the Russians were trying to affect the election," Clapper, who served under President Barack Obama, said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday.
In this July 21, 2016 file photo, Republican Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. AP Photo/J.
President Donald Trump questioned the special counsel's intensifying Russia probe on Sunday while attacking his own national security adviser, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hillary Clinton, former president Barack Obama, Congress, CNN and others in a nine-hour span of tweets that included swearing and grammatical errors. Posting from his Florida estate, he seemed most aggrieved that special counsel Robert Mueller's team had unearthed 13 indictments against Russians on Friday - and alleged that they could have swayed the 2016 election to benefit Trump.
After 15 years as a fixture in the heart of Old Pasadena, the Twin Palms restaurant will close its doors Nov. 25. The restaurant - which actor Kevin Costner and his then-wife Cindy opened when they lived in La Ca ada Flintridge - has been owned and operated since 2002 by a partnership including BRACC Restaurant Corp. and BRV, an entity of San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, spokeswoman Lisa Cohen said Monday. The high-profile restaurant, where presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton held a fundraiser in 2008, has been struggling since the economy took a downturn a year ago, Cohen said.
President Donald Trump said that, despite the newly announced charges, the Russian meddling had no effect on the outcome of the election The White House continued to deny collusion with Moscow a day after special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals and three entities for allegedly meddling in the US 2016 presidential election, the media reported. In a series of tweets on Saturday, President Donald Trump said that, despite the newly announced charges, the Russian meddling had no effect on the outcome of the election, reports CNN.
In this Monday, Sept. 20, 2010 file photo, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, right, shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, second right, around his factory which produces school means, outside St. Petersburg, Russia.