LeBron James is sharing his public support for Brittney Griner, the WNBA player and Olympic Gold Medalist who was detained upon arriving in Moscow in February after allegedly carrying weed vape cartridges in her luggage. On Monday, the basketball star shared a letter from his Uninterrupted brand calling for the …
Read More »A Dead-Name Passport and 16,500 Followers: How Zi Faámelu Escaped Ukraine
Zi Faámelu was getting desperate. It was five days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, five days since President Volodymyr Zelensky had declared martial law, and the 31-year-old musician, artist, and Instagram influencer knew she had to get out of Kyiv —and fast. She’d been trapped in her apartment, listening to …
Read More »Russian Journalist Interrogated for 14 Hours After Anti-War Protest
The journalist who crashed a Russian state-run news broadcast to protest the invasion of Ukraine says she was interrogated for 14 hours and denied access to her lawyer and was not able to contact her family. Marina Ovsyannikova made the remarks at a brief news conference on Tuesday following an …
Read More »Freedom Fries 2.0: Bars, Restaurants Change Names and Menus to Nix Russia Connections
Start a senseless and unprovoked war and the world will react in big and small ways. As world leaders sanctioned Russia and everyday people protested worldwide its invasion of Ukraine, other sectors pondered how to distance themselves from the conflict via… banning products and changing brand names boasting even the …
Read More »Mueller Report Summary: No Collusion, No Exoneration
Two days after Special Counsel Robert Mueller finished his nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and any ties between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Attorney General William Barr delivered a four-page letter to Congress summarizing Mueller’s final report. Barr’s letter claims that Mueller …
Read More »Will We Get to Read Mueller's Final Report? Maybe
Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia could soon be coming to a close. CNN reports that, as early as next week, Attorney General William Barr is preparing to announce the probe has ended. Soon after the announcement, Barr will submit to Congress a summary …
Read More »Andrew McCabe Says the FBI Discussed a Plan to Remove Trump From Office
Update: A spokesperson for McCabe released a statement on Friday claiming that comments McCabe made about discussing the 25th amendment have been “misrepresented.” Original text below. *** Last month, theNew York Timesreported that after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, the bureauopened a counterintelligence investigationto determine …
Read More »A Damning New Timeline Argues Trump's Collusion Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Don’t forget about Russia. President Trump’s scheme to hold 800,000 federal employees hostage over border wall funding has dominated news coverage since the government began operating under a partial shutdown on December 21st, but Special Counsel Robert Mueller is still busy looking into his campaign’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir …
Read More »Will Trump's New Attorney General Interfere With the Mueller Investigation?
When it was reported on Wednesday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will leave the Justice Department once William Barr is confirmed at the new attorney general, many took it to mean that Rosenstein has faith that Barr will protect the integrity of the Mueller investigation. This may be true, …
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