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The unlikeliest prize of the Trump-Putin summit: a motorcycle for an Alaska local

August 20, 2025 8:47 pm

Two days before the Trump-Putin summit on August 15, Mark Warren, a retired Anchorage fire inspector, got a call from the Russian journalist telling him, “They’ve decided to give you a bike.”

Kremlin says US decision to ban Kaspersky software designed to stifle competition

June 21, 2024 6:34 pm

Announcing the ban, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told reporters that "Russia has shown it has the capacity and...the intent to exploit Russian companies like Kaspersky to collect and weaponize the personal information of Americans".

US moves against oil tankers unacceptable: Russia

May 30, 2024 7:07 pm

The United States and its allies are weighing additional sanctions and could act further to increase Russia's cost of using a shadow fleet of tankers to evade a Group of Seven countries' cap on the Russian oil price.

Blinken heads to Moldova as tensions with Russia build

May 29, 2024 5:58 pm

In Chisinau, Blinken will meet pro-European President Maia Sandu and other senior officials at a time when U.S. officials say the ex-Soviet republic of 2.5 million, which has a long border with Ukraine, faces Russian "influence operations".

NATO chief visits Kyiv for first time since Russian invasion

April 20, 2023 3:49 pm

Apart from the important symbolism of the visit, the exact purpose of Stoltenberg's trip wasn't immediately clear.

Ukraine urges calm, saying Russian invasion not imminent

January 25, 2022 10:31 pm

The State Department has ordered the families of all American personnel at the US Embassy in Kyiv to leave the country, and it said that nonessential embassy staff could leave.

With Putin, Biden tries to forge a bond of self-interest, not souls

June 17, 2021 8:48 am

Biden, who agreed this year with an interviewer that Putin was a “killer,” said Wednesday that he had no need to discuss that further. “Why would I bring it up again?” Biden asked.

The Russian trolls have a simpler job today. Quote Trump

September 23, 2020 1:00 pm

There was the exaggerated Texas secession movement, a famous ad in which Satan arm-wrestles Jesus while declaring, “If I win, Clinton wins,” and an effort to recruit protesters and counterprotesters to the same, invented rally over the rapid spread of Islamic influence in the United States.

Watchdog finds new problems with FBI wiretap applications

April 01, 2020 5:28 pm

The FBI and Justice Department say they have begun making significant changes including additional training and other safeguards meant to ensure the accuracy of surveillance applications.

Five things to look for in Mueller's Trump-Russia report

April 18, 2019 12:45 pm

Barr on March 24 sent a four-page letter to lawmakers detailing Mueller's "principal conclusions" including that the 22-month probe did not establish that President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign team conspired with Russia.

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