One of the world’s most notorious hackers has been extradited to the U.S. from Spain. Thirty-seven-year-old Pyotr Levashov was arrested while vacationing with his family in Barcelona in April, Spanish authorities said.
U.S. officials have linked Levashov to a powerful …
Continue ReadingA Russian fighter jet was shot down in Syria yesterday over Idlib province, the northwest region of the state, according to Russian state media. The jet was shot down in an area controlled by al-Nusra fighters. Nusra fighters are aligned …
Continue ReadingNorth Korea has earned nearly $200 million in 2017 from exports that violated sanctions according to report written by U.N. monitors.
The report, which has been sent to a U.N. Security Council sanctions committee, said North Korea had shipped coal …
Continue ReadingCIA Director Mike Pompeo responded to a letter from Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer raising concerns about a meeting Pompeo had with the head of Russia’s top spy agency.
Pompeo said that Schumer implied there was something “untoward” about …
Continue ReadingDemocratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi has called on Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to remove Rep. Devin Nunes from his position as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Pelosi wrote a strongly-worded letter to Speaker Ryan today, requesting …
Continue ReadingThe U.S. released video of a Russian jet flying within five feet of a U.S. Navy surveillance plane yesterday. An EP-3 Aries was flying in international airspace over the Black Sea when a Russian Su-27 flew into its flight path.…
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration admits that it derived a list of wealthy Russian oligarchs that it was required to submit to Congress from a list of wealthy Russian businessmen on Forbes.com. Asked if there was any truth to the rumors …
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration has declined to impose new sanctions against Russia, saying that a bill passed by Congress last year authorizing new sanctions is itself working adequately.
“Given the long time frames generally associated with major defense deals, the …
Continue ReadingRussia is accusing the United States of meddling in its election. Russia is referring to a Treasury report that contains the names wealthy Russian oligarchs and details their close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. That report is set …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress tomorrow night. Here are the top five things the president will try to achieve in his first address as Commander-in-Chief.
Call for an …
Continue ReadingA tanker full of Russian natural gas reached New England this weekend in defiance of U.S. sanctions. It arrived just after the U.S. announced increased penalties on Russia-linked individuals and businesses, and just days before a deadline in which …
Continue ReadingRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested in Moscow today, while on his way to a protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The protests were organized by Navalny to encourage Russians to boycott the presidential election in March. Putin …
Continue ReadingTwitter revealed to Congressional lawmakers this week that Russian bots, or automated accounts, retweeted the president nearly 470,000 times during the final weeks of the presidential election. The company had reported that it has identified 201 accounts linked to …
Continue ReadingGoogle and Twitter told Congress that they have found no evidence of Russian influence efforts in the handful of U.S. special elections held last year. The companies responded to written questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee. The questions were a …
Continue ReadingThe revelation that Russian hackers broke into U.S. computer systems and used the information to meddle the U.S. elections may have come from Dutch intelligence services, Dutch media reported today.
The Vokskrant newspaper reported that Dutch intelligence officials were …
Continue ReadingSenate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said that he will release the transcript of his committee’s interview with Donald Trump Jr., about a meeting at Trump Tower with Russian lawyers. Grassley said that his committee is finished looking into that …
Continue ReadingSecretary of State Rex Tillerson said yesterday that Russia is ultimately responsible for the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons. “Russia ultimately bears responsibility for the victims in Eastern Ghouta and countless other Syrians targeted with chemical weapons since …
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