An update to a previous News Views article: It’s official: Far right extremists on social media and ‘news’ platforms that spread disinformation to muck up the 2024 election in order to help re-elect The Felon MORE
Sources in the Biden Administration have told NBC News that will announce a series of actions Wednesday targeting what it says are Russian government-sponsored attempts to manipulate U.S. public opinion ahead of the November election. MORE
Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist with dual U.S.-Russia citizenship, arrived on American soil, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, shortly before midnight for a joyful reunion with their families, and were welcomed MORE
Russia and the United States have agreed to swap prisoners in an extraordinary deal made through the Biden administration. The deal will allow the two wrongfully detained American citizens held by Moscow, Wall Street Journal MORE
The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that an AI-powered information operation run from Russia, including nearly 1,000 accounts pretending to be Americans, had been shut down. The US justice department said the operation was devised MORE
CNN reports that the largest power-generating plant in Ukraine’s Kyiv region was reportedly destroyed in a Russian missile attack on Thursday as Moscow steps up its attacks on infrastructure. Russian shelling caused a large-scale fire at the Trypilska Thermal MORE
The former campaign manager was pardoned by Trump for bank and tax fraud convictions and accusations he hid millions he made consulting for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians. The job discussions have largely centered around the 2024 MORE
Ukraine has summoned the Vatican’s envoy after the Pope said the country should “have the courage to raise the white flag” against Russia. The BBC is reporting that according to a transcript the Pope said: MORE
Aleksei A. Navalny died in prison, the Russian authorities said. The anticorruption campaigner rose to become the most prominent critic of President Vladimir V. Putin. According to the New York Times, Mr. Navalny’s spokeswoman, Kira MORE
Although just speculative and unconfirmed at this point but the fired and Fox ‘News’ host, TuKKKer KKKarlson may have conducted an interview with his puppet master, Vladimir Putin. If the rumors prove true, TucKKKer, will MORE
Under the care of then-White House chief of staff and now criminally indicted, Mark Meadows, a binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference has gone missing. The binder contained raw intelligence the MORE
In the mostly Muslim region of Dagestan, Russia, an angry mob stormed airport where a flight from Israel arrived on Sunday, forcing authorities to close the facility and divert flights. Multiple videos posted on social media MORE
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“Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.” Elon Musk In a MORE
According to Space.com, “The Luna-25 spacecraft was supposed to maneuver itself into its final pre-landing orbit around the moon (Aug. 19), ahead of a touchdown attempt on Monday (Aug. 21) or thereabouts. But the probe encountered MORE
Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted a deal that ended the threat that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private army could storm Moscow on Sunday, as the mutinous leader agreed to go into exile in Belarus. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko had MORE
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From NPR: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday gave his first formal confirmation that Ukraine’s long-awaited offensive was underway against Russian troops. “Counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine. At what stage, I will not MORE
Russia’s Interior Ministry issued a warrant for the arrest of Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday after he praised U.S. military aid to Ukraine as “the best money we’ve ever spent.” The Russians reacted to a video MORE
From the NYT: Russia has expanded its list of sanctioned Americans in a tit-for-tat retaliation for the latest curbs imposed by the United States. But what is particularly striking is how much President Vladimir V. Putin of MORE
Alpha male Putin with his pet Plans are underway in Russia to build a settlement for conservative American and Canadian immigrants seeking to leave the West “for ideological reasons,” at least according to a Moscow-based MORE
The leak of U.S. secret documents about Ukraine continued on social media on Friday. Also included in the documents were secrets about Iran’s nuclear program, North Korea’s missile program, and documents from other regions of MORE
The Wall Street Journal has described Gershkovich’s arrest as “a vicious affront to a free press, and should spur outrage in all free people and governments throughout the world”. From The Guardian: Russian Federal Security MORE
Despite objections from Ukraine, Russia has taken up presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of April. Unfortunately, it’s no joke. The UN Security Council is charged with maintaining global peace and MORE
“All 30 Nato allies have now ratified the accession protocol,” Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday. “Finland will formally join our alliance in the coming days.” Finland’s membership represents the first enlargement since North Macedonia joined the alliance MORE