PoliticsPA Media: World NewsPutin engineers shake-up that could keep him in power longer
The Russian president earlier accepted the resignation of long-time ally Dmitry Medvedev, who moves to a new role.
PoliticsPA Media: World NewsPutin: Trump was impeached for far-fetched reasons
The Russian president predicts the impeachment motion will be rejected by the US Senate.
NewsYahoo News VideoFormer DOJ official: There is no evidence that Russia investigation was opened for ‘political reasons’
Former acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord joins Yahoo News editor in chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss the Department of Justice watchdog report on the origins of the Russia investigation. McCord details the dual findings of the report, explaining that while errors in the handling of FISA applications were found, there is no evidence to suggest the investigation was politically motivated.
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Former DOJ official: President Trump's ‘lack of familiarity’ made him susceptible to foreign interference
Former acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord joins Yahoo News editor in chief Daniel Klaidman and chief investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss the Department of Justice watchdog report that exposed serious errors in the FISA applications that allowed for surveillance of Trump campaign staffer Carter Page. During the leadup to the Russia investigation, McCord says she didn't share suspicions that President Trump was a Russian asset — at least not a knowing one.
PoliticsYahoo News VideoWhy Greta Thunberg changed her Twitter bio in response to Trump and Putin
Climate change activist Greta Thunberg tells Yahoo News why she decided to change her Twitter bio to "criticism" from President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Thunberg said, "I changed it two times now to some of the criticism from very powerful people I have seen. ... Why not?"
ScienceYahoo News VideoGreta Thunberg: Powerful men like Trump ‘want to silence’ young climate activists
Climate change activist Greta Thunberg traveled to Iowa City, Iowa, for a student-led strike. Thunberg says world leaders “are using several methods to mock and hate.”
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There’s a scene in the last series of Homeland where the crusading Senator Paley is confronted by Saul Berenson with evidence of his unknowing complicity in a Russian plot. A Useful Idiot is someone who, despite benign intentions, unwittingly does the work of another in helping to realise their malign intentions. The Useful Idiot is not necessarily a bad, weak or ignorant person.
EntertainmentYahoo News VideoSkullduggery TV: Trump's 'Ridiculous Bullshit'
George Papadopoulos, Glenn Greenwald, and Ben Wittes are all part of this packed episode of Skullduggery. Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman analyze the fallout of the Bill Barr Mueller Report Summary even further, alongside Wittes, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Then Greenwald joins to talk about the coverage from journalists with various outlets, and how they misled the public with their coverage of the Russia scandal. Then, excerpts from Isikoff's exclusive one-on-one interview with Papadopoulos from Politics and Prose bookstore in D.C. in front of a live audience, help paint a clearer picture of what actually did, or didn't, happen to the man who started it all.
EntertainmentYahoo News VideoSkullduggery TV: The Real Legal Peril
Mimi Rocah and Joon Kim, two former Southern District of New York prosecutors analyze the office’s investigation of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization alongside co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman.
PoliticsReutersKremlin: The idea that Donald Trump could have worked for Russia is stupid
"This is stupid, what is there to comment?" said Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov when asked to address whether Trump had or was working with Russia.
NewsReutersU.S. demands immediate return of ex-Marine detained in Russia on spy charges
"I the detention is not appropriate, we will demand his immediate return," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday.
NewsYahoo News UKRussian foreign minister claims Britain staged gas attack in Syria using chemicals 'made in Salisbury'
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said Moscow has ‘plenty of evidence’ that Britain staged the alleged chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma. Mr Lavrov even claimed that chemicals made in Salisbury were used by the UK.
NewsYahoo News UKRussia sends warships laden with tanks towards Syria as Putin threatens 'chaos' if another attack is launched
Russia has sent two warships carrying tanks and military equipment towards the Middle East following co-ordinated military action in Syria.
NewsYahoo News UKDonald Trump's top lawyer resigns as President 'won't listen to advice'
He is the lead lawyer in the Russia interference investigation.
NewsYahoo News UKFormer ambassador says there is 'zero evidence' nerve agent used against Sergei Skripal was made in Russia
A former ambassador has said there is 'zero evidence' the nerve agent used in the attack against Sergei Skripal was manufactured in Russia.
NewsYahoo News UKBoris Johnson personally blames Putin for Salisbury spy poison attack as war of words escalates
Foreign secretary Boris Johnson said it was "overwhelmingly likely" that Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the attack on Sergei Skripal.
NewsYahoo News UKPucker up! Vladimir Putin kisses female supporter on the campaign trail
Putin was seen kissing fan Larisa Sergukhina after a concert in Moscow.
NewsYahoo News UKPutin threatens 'new arms race' as he reveals Russia has tested nuclear weapons 'invulnerable to interception'
Vladimir Putin has revealed that Moscow has tested nuclear missiles that are immune to enemy interception.
NewsYahoo News UKPutin doesn't 'give a s**t' about Trump, claims explosive new White House book
Vladimir Putin doesn't give a s**t about Donald Trump, according to explosive new White House book
NewsYahoo News UKVladimir Putin warns of genetic super-soldiers ‘more deadly than a nuclear bomb’
Speaking to students at the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students in Sochi, Putin warned of the dangers of ‘playing God’
NewsYahoo News UKTrump grills Putin on US election interference during face-to-face meeting at G20
Donald Trump reportedly questioned Vladimir Putin about Moscow’s alleged interference in the 2016 US election, pressing him over whether Russia had meddled in the poll. President Trump used his first face-to-face meeting to raise the issue with his opposite number, according to reports in the New York Times and Washington Post. Mr Putin reportedly denied any meddling, and aides for both leaders have apparently given different versions of the exchange that took place on the sidelines of the G20.
NewsYahoo News UKMelania Trump 'trapped' in hotel by G20 riots in Germany
Melania Trump is among a host of A-listers allegedly trapped in a Hamburg hotel room because of riots during the G20 meeting in Germany. World leaders were apparently diverted before they could attend the meeting, including husband Donald Trump. A spokeswoman for the US First Lady told press agencies that because of the rioting, Melania was among a number of spouses unable to leave the safety of a hotel.
NewsYahoo News UKRussia moves its border with Georgia and hardly anyone notices
Russia has secretly moved one of its borders, pinching a small strip of land from Georgia on the eve of crucial G20 talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. According to media reports, Russia troops illegally moved a border sign into a village called Bershueti on Monday. The move saw Russia pinch about 10 hectares of what was Georgian soil.
NewsYahoo News UKOne of Donald Trump's closest allies has claimed that he receives payment from Vladimir Putin
One of Donald Trump‘s closest allies reportedly claimed that he was receiving payments from Vladimir Putin only a month before he secured the Republican presidential nomination. Kevin McCarthy, the Congress majority leader, is said to have made the explosive claim during a meeting on Capitol Hill with other GOP leaders in June 2016. Rohrbacher refers to Californian Republican Dana Rohrbacher, who is renowned for his fervent support of both Russia and Vladimir Putin.
NewsYahoo News VideoCongressman Elijah Cummings releases new documents in General Flynn investigation
On Thursday, April 27th, Congressman Elijah Cummings announced that he is releasing three documents related to Congress' investigation of General Michael Flynn, President Trump's short lived National Security Advisor. Cummings said the documents show that Flynn was warned by the Defense Department that he could not accept payments from foreign sources without permission, and that Flynn subsequently did not seek permission before accepting payments for a trip to Russia.