The investigation — a dual counterintelligence and criminal probe — was launched after the president fired FBI director James Comey in May 2017, the Times said, citing anonymous sources.
The counterintelligence aspect consisted of determining whether Trump was knowingly or unknowingly working for Moscow and whether he was a threat to national security, the newspaper reported.
It added the criminal portion related to Trump’s firing of Comey.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a major and extremely embarrassing foreign policy speech in Cairo on Thursday, which is probably inconsequential since his major talking points departed from the positions of his president, Trump. Also, aside from some generals and kings and princes, nobody in the region agrees with anything he said.
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel has opened Route 4370 in Jerusalem, in the central occupied West Bank, dividing Palestinian and Israeli settlers.
The Haaretz news outlet reported that the highway, which has been called the “Apartheid Road,” is divided in the middle by a high wall; the road’s western side serves Palestinians who cannot enter Jerusalem, whereas its eastern side serves Israeli settlers.
This is the first road to have a wall along its entire length, dividing Palestinian and Israeli drivers, however, the West Bank has many segregated roads.
The world’s oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said Thursday.
The findings in the US journal Science, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, debunk previous reports that suggested a so-called pause in global warming in recent years.
( Tomdispatch.com) – In one of the Bible stories about the death of Jesus, local collaborators with the Roman Empire haul him before Pontius Pilate, the imperial governor of Palestine. Although the situation is dire for one of them, the two engage in a bit of epistemological banter.
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s talk of declaring a national emergency so that he can build a border wall with Mexico is the most dangerous thing he has ever said after suggesting that Saudi Arabia should get a nuclear bomb.
(Otherwords.org) – The president is going to demonize the media no matter what they do. So why not do the right thing?
Way back in 2014 — a century ago, it feels like — President Barack Obama requested time on major networks for an Oval Office address on immigration reform.
Paul Manafort admitted to sharing US polling data with a Russian during the 2016 presidential race
Two Ukrainian oligarchs were the intended recipients of US polling data President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman admitted to sharing with a Russian during the 2016 presidential race, a CNN report said Wednesday, citing a source close to the matter.
Pro-Russia Ukrainians Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov had paid Paul Manafort millions of dollars over the years for lobbying work.
