Max de Haldevang

For most of his life, billionaire Len Blavatnik put few of his vast resources into US politics. That changed in 2015.

Update (Dec. 18, 1:20pm ET): Judge Sullivan agreed to postpone Flynn’s sentencing for at least 90 days to allow the former national security advisor to continue cooperating with law enforcement._____

Russia’s wide-ranging disinformation attack on the 2016 US election even used Pokémon Go as part of its effort to minimize African American voter turnout, according to a report commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The US Senate Intelligence Committee lambasts Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s “belated and uncoordinated response” to Russia’s attack on the 2016 presidential election in a report to be released today (Dec, 17), according to a draft obtained by the Washington Post.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign has been extraordinarily successful.

Among the many worrying statements for Donald Trump to come from his former attorney Michael Cohen’s sentencing today was the following: Cohen gave “credible” and “valuable information” about “any links between a campaign and a foreign government.”

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen lashed out at his former boss’s “dirty deeds” today as he was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes including tax evasion, campaign finance violations, and lying to Congress and the IRS.

Special counsel Robert Mueller submitted momentous court filings this week. The documents discuss wrongdoing by president Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, campaign chair Paul Manafort, and national security advisor Mike Flynn—but surface little new information about Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 US presidential election.

Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort broke his plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller by lying about five different subjects, Mueller’s team said in a court document filed today.

On Donald Trump’s orders, his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen twice broke campaign finance laws by paying off women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump, federal prosecutors said in a court filing today.

Shortly after Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015, he and then-personal attorney Michael Cohen discussed meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin—and ultimately asked the Russian government if Putin would be interested, according to court documents released today.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is expected to file sentencing recommendations this afternoon for two figures who once occupied central positions in the Trump orbit: the president’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen and former campaign director Paul Manafort.

Dec. 7, 2018 marks the 686th day that Donald Trump has been president of the United States. It may also prove to be one of the most chaotic for a White House that’s been marked by turmoil.

Canadian spy chief David Vigneault said this week his agency is more consumed by fighting foreign interference, spying, and cyber threats than terrorism, marking a major shift in challenges since the 9/11 attacks upended national security priorities in 2001.

America’s UN ambassador Nikki Haley lambasted Russian aggression Monday night (Dec. 3,) while accepting an award at a think tank event sponsored by a Soviet-born oligarch.

House speaker Paul Ryan and UN ambassador Nikki Haley will be honored at a dinner tonight funded in part by a Soviet-born oligarch whose business associates are under US sanctions, and whose political donations have reportedly been examined by special counsel Robert Mueller.

The G20 today achieved something that two major international summits have failed to do this year—put together a document (pdf) that all attendees agree on.

The presidency of George H.W. Bush, a genteel upper-class New Englander who died last night, was—while certainly not scandal-free—arguably the last to have seen genuine civility and bipartisanship in Washington.

Russian hackers seem to have been busy on Nov. 14.

Attorneys for president Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen asked a Manhattan court not to give him any jail time in a document submitted last night (Nov. 30), following his guilty plea for lying to Congress about a planned Trump Tower Moscow.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has dominated America’s airwaves in recent years for his government’s alleged attack on the 2016 presidential election. But in recent months, Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman has emerged as a rival in notoriety, with the CIA’s conclusion that he ordered the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Donald Trump said today that revelations about his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s work on a 2016 Trump real estate deal in Moscow don’t matter “because I was allowed to do whatever I wanted during the campaign.” About an hour later, he cancelled a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin.

President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen worked on a deal to build a Trump Tower Moscow until late in the presidential campaign, and spoke to a Russian government official about getting it approved, court documents revealed today. That same project would “get Donald elected” with the help of Russian president Vladimir Putin, another Trump associate once claimed.

Dictionary.com’s word of the year is “misinformation.” Not “disinformation.”