by Jim Heath | Aug 18, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
A sprawling report released today by a Republican-controlled Senate panel that spent three years investigating Russia’s 2016 election interference laid out an extensive web of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and Russian government officials and other...
by Jim Heath | Aug 16, 2020 | 2020, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin, Trump
President Trump has told aides he’d like to hold an in-person meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the November election. Administration officials have explored various times and locations for another Trump-Putin summit, including potentially...
by Jim Heath | Aug 4, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
A massive explosion in the Lebanese capital of Beirut has killed at least 73 people, left thousands more injured and wreaked devastation on the city. The country’s health minister said more than 3,700 have been wounded following the blast at the city’s...
by Jim Heath | Aug 3, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Donald Trump loves to talk up his relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin, but it thus far hasn’t meant much for the American people. Now, family members in North Texas say a nine-year prison sentence for a U.S. Marine Corp veteran handed down by a...
by Jim Heath | Jul 29, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin, Trump
In a new interview, President Trump said he did not raise the issue of Russia paying bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan during a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week because the intelligence behind the claim is suspect and he doesn’t believe...
by Jim Heath | Jul 14, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Health
Nonessential travel between the US and its two closest neighbors — Canada and Mexico — is expected remain blocked until at least late August amid spikes in confirmed coronavirus cases in large swaths of the US. The Mexican Foreign Ministry announced today...
