Dilan seeking to toss Salazar off Democratic primary ballot over…

Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct - Six women accuse the C.E.O. of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company. - For more than twenty years, Leslie Moonves has been one of the most powerful media executives in America.

Not a hacker on a bed someplace

Registration will allow you to post comments on GreenwichTime.com and create a GreenwichTime.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Clear away the hot air and deception, and recent disclosures about Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. presidential election offer a sobering glimpse of cyberconflict today.

Trump and Putin raise possibilities of another meeting Source: AP

President Donald Trump is open to visiting Moscow - if he gets a formal invitation from Vladimir Putin, the White House said. Russian President Putin said he's game for a trip to Washington - but his answer came only after Trump retracted his invitation for a fall sit-down.

Trump and Putin raise possibilities of another meeting

President Donald Trump is open to visiting Moscow - if he gets a formal invitation from Vladimir Putin, the White House said. Russian President Putin said he's game for a trip to Washington - but his answer came only after Trump retracted his invitation for a fall sit-down.

Trump and Putin’s RSVP’s: Yes, for sure, if, if if. …

President Donald Trump is open to visiting Moscow - if he gets a formal invitation from Vladimir Putin, the White House said Friday. Russian President Putin said he's game for a trip to Washington - but his answer came only after Trump retracted his invitation for a fall sit-down.

Vladimir Putin says he’s ‘ready to go to Washington’ to meet Donald Trump and invites him to Moscow

WASHINGTON After President Donald Trump pushed their next meeting into next year, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said Friday he is "ready to go to Washington," but conditions have to be right for another summit and, for good measure, the two presidents also talked about yet another meeting later in Moscow. "We are ready for such meetings, we are ready to invite President Trump to Moscow," Putin said during a visit to Johannesburg.

Emails: Lawyer who met Trump Jr. tied to Russian officials Source: AP

The Moscow lawyer said to have promised Donald Trump's presidential campaign dirt on his Democratic opponent worked more closely with senior Russian government officials than she previously let on, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Scores of emails, transcripts and legal documents paint a portrait of Natalia Veselnitskaya as a well-connected attorney who served as a ghostwriter for top Russian government lawyers and received assistance from senior Interior Ministry personnel in a case involving a key client.

Emails: Lawyer who met Trump Jr. tied to Russian officials

The Moscow lawyer said to have promised Donald Trump's presidential campaign dirt on his Democratic opponent worked more closely with senior Russian government officials than she previously let on, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Scores of emails, transcripts and legal documents paint a portrait of Natalia Veselnitskaya as a well-connected attorney who served as a ghostwriter for top Russian government lawyers and received assistance from senior Interior Ministry personnel in a case involving a key client.

House passes annual defense bill, avoiding big policy clashes…

The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed the final version of the annual defense authorization bill, giving its approval to a record-setting military budget and changes to policies on Russia and China that nonetheless avoids direct clashes with the Trump administration. The 359 to 54 vote on the $716 billion measure, which the Senate is expected to take up in coming weeks, comes after one of the shortest negotiation processes for the behemoth defense bill in recent history - an indicator of how few politically controversial issues arose during the debate.

Butina hobnobbed with Washington elites at Rockefeller heir’s…

A scion of the Rockefeller clan, George D. O'Neill Jr., was one of the U.S. conservatives who allegedly helped Russia's Maria Butina efforts to build a secret line of communication back to the Kremlin, judging by details in recent U.S. filings. O'Neill, a 68-year-old sculptor and a rainmaker for conservatives since Pat Buchanan's 1992 presidential run, hosted a private dinner in Washington for a delegation of Russian dignitaries in town for a National Prayer Breakfast in early February 2017, he has said publicly and to Bloomberg last year.

Why the Russia-Trump Collusion Conspiracy Theory Isn’t Catching On

The Democrat-led anti-Trump "Resistance" and its numerous media mouthpieces have been promoting their "Russia hacked the election" narrative for two years. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fired the biggest recent salvo in this campaign after Trump invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Washington.

The hypocrisy of the Democratic Russia hawks

With his interference in the 2016 election, Russian President Vladimir Putin achieved something that none of his murderous Soviet predecessors were able to accomplish: He has turned Democrats into Russia hawks. A few months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan addressed the 1992 Republican National Convention and said: "I heard those speakers at that other convention saying 'we won the Cold War' - and I couldn't help wondering, just who exactly do they mean by 'we'?" He had a point.

Menendez and Pompeo really go at each other over Trump meeting with Putin

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez , the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , went toe-to-toe with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as he grilled him over President Donald Trump 's closed-door meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month. At a committee hearing Wednesday, Menendez, D-N.J., kept asking Pompeo what Trump told him about the meeting, which was held without anyone else present except for two translators.

Secretary of State Pompeo faces heated bipartisan grilling over…

Secretary of State Pompeo testified before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill a week after President Trump's one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Secretary of State Pompeo faced pointed questions from lawmakers Wednesday about President Trump's recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the firestorm that followed.

Nick Wadhams:

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo will find one of his rare appearances on Capitol Hill rough going today as he seeks to soothe the ire of senators exasperated by President Donald Trump's strategy on everything from Russia and NATO to North Korea. As bipartisan fury over Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin last week reverberates in Washington, Pompeo will hear from senators demanding to know what happened during the president's one-on-one meeting with the Russian president, what Trump meant when he called the European Union a "foe" and whether the U.S. is being duped again by North Korea.