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Russia's Foreign Ministry on Friday ordered a reduction in the number of U.S. diplomats in Russia and said it was closing down a U.S. recreation retreat in response to fresh sanctions against Russia. The U.S. Senate approved a new package of stiff financial sanctions Friday against Russia, Iran and North Korea and sent it to President Donald Trump to sign.
The 98-to-2 vote sets the president up with a pivotal choice: veto the bill knowing that lawmakers are prepared to override, as his communications chief Anthony Scaramucci suggested Thursday morning on CNN that he might, or sign the legislation that binds his hands when it comes to altering sanctions policy against Moscow, a provision his administration lobbied hard against. Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., were the only senators to vote against the bill.
The Senate voted decisively on Thursday to approve a new package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea, sending the popular bill to President Donald Trump for his signature after weeks of intense negotiations. Never in doubt, however, was a cornerstone of the legislation that bars Trump from easing or waiving the additional penalties on Russia unless Congress agrees.
Eager to punish Russia for meddling in the 2016 election, the House on Tuesday overwhelmingly backed a new package of sanctions against Moscow that prohibits President Donald Trump from waiving the penalties without first getting permission from Congress. Lawmakers passed the legislation, 419-3, clearing the far-reaching measure for action by the Senate.
From where I normally sit in France , the ongoing Trump-Russia fever dream that has played out in the U.S. over the last year barely even qualifies as background noise. I guess the world has more important things to worry about than whether Russian President Vladimir Putin personally zombified the nearly 63 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in November's presidential election.
At the recent G-20 meeting in Hamburg this month, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin met on the side with President Donald Trump for what they called an "informal" 15-minute session. Press reports indicate that they discussed "adoptions."
Generations ago, when the wealth of the United States was measured in natural resources like beaver pelts and timber, people built giant statues to represent the times. They erected statues of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe that can still be seen along north woods roadsides from Oregon to Michigan.
A former adviser to President Trump's campaign says a congressional probe into Russia's role in the 2016 election increasingly resembles former Sen. Joseph McCarthy 's infamous hunt for communists in the U.S. government. The accusations by Michael Caputo came little more than a week after congressional investigators on the House Intelligence Committee interviewed him as part of their ongoing probe of possible collusion between Trump campaign's and Russia.
Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller at WaPo report from a US intelligence source that former Russian ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak, told Moscow that he had discussed campaign-related matters with Jeff Sessions twice in the summer of 2016. This revelation directly contradicts Sessions' testimony before Congress.
Russia's Lavrov Says Trump May Have Met Putin More Times - MOSCOW - President Donald Trump may have held more meetings with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit earlier this month, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday - but he shrugged off the importance of the encounters.
President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an encounter not initially disclosed on the sidelines of an international summit this month. One of the topics, according to Trump? Russian adoptions.
The Trump administration is reportedly cutting a CIA program that has provided arms to Syrian rebels since 2013. This has provoked a heated reaction from a media obsessed with Russia, and from Russia hawks like Sen. Lindsey Graham , who said such a decision would represent a "complete capitulation" to Bashar Assad, Russia, and Iran.
The budget plan unveiled Tuesday is crucial because its passage would pave the way to pass a tax overhaul this fall without the fear of a filibuster by Senate Democrats. The budget plan unveiled Tuesday is crucial because its passage would pave the way to pass a tax overhaul this fall without the fear of a filibuster by Senate Democrats.
President Trump is shutting down the CIA's program to arm and train rebels fighting the Syrian government, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, a victory for Russia, which has called for the move for years. Officials told the Post that shutting down the program, begun by the Obama administration in 2013, is a sign of Trump's attempts to work with Russia, which has viewed the U.S. attempts to force out Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as an attack on their own interests.
President Donald Trump had another, previously undisclosed conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Germany this month. White House spokesman Sean Spicer and National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton confirmed that Trump and Putin spoke at a dinner for world leaders and their spouses at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. He has emerged as one of Russia's biggest defenders on Capitol Hill, and Democrats are using that position to argue he's not focused on the district.
News that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a previously unreported chat at the G20 summit is raising questions about what they discussed and who else was there. Photo: AFP Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had an additional, previously undisclosed chat at this month's G20 summit in Hamburg, the White House acknowledged on Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, on July 7, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, on July 7, 2017.
New details emerged of an additional conversation between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this month. The previously undisclosed conversation between the two leaders was first revealed on Tuesday by Ian Bremmer, president of the geopolitical risk firm Eurasia Group.
Donald Trump Jr.'s attorney, Alan Futerfas, has told CNN he has spoken by phone to the eighth person in the room during the meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016. CNN reported last week that the individual was there on behalf of a Russian family, the Agalarovs, who had asked for the meeting to be set up, according to two sources familiar with the circumstances.