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President Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House on Sunday after returning from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla
NPR
Politics & Policy

U.S. expels 60 Russian officials, closes consulate in Seattle

The move follows the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in the English city of Salisbury on March 4.

8 years ago

In 2015, Pope Francis is presented with an image of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero during a private audience granted to participants to the pilgrimage from El Salvador at the Vatican. Pope Francis has cleared the way for slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero to be made a saint, declaring that a churchman who stood up for the poorest of the poor in the face of right-wing oppression should be a model for Catholics today. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Salvadorans honor legacy of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero, now destined for sainthood

For 38 years, Catholics from El Salvador have marked the date Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated. This year, the March 24 anniversary will be a little different.

8 years ago

Listen 5:06
This image released by the FBI is the wanted posted for 9 Iranians that took part in a government-sponsored hacking scheme that pilfered sensitive information from hundreds of universities, private companies and government agencies. (FBI via AP)
Courts & Law

DOJ charges 9 Iranians in massive hacking scheme

The Justice Department said the hackers were affiliated with an Iranian company called the Mabna Institute, which prosecutors say contracted with the Iranian government.

8 years ago

The offices of Cambridge Analytica (CA) in central London, after it was announced that Britain's information commissioner Elizabeth Denham is pursuing a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's computer servers, Tuesday March 20, 2018. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP)
Politics & Policy

Mueller examining Cambridge Analytica, Trump campaign ties

Mueller's investigators have asked former campaign officials about the Trump campaign's data operations.

8 years ago

President Trump is announcing new tariffs against China on Thursday. (Pool/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

President Trump orders $50 billion tariffs on China

The Trump administration is preparing to impose some $50 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports.

8 years ago

In this April 4, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook is having one of its worst weeks as a publicly traded company with a share sell-off continuing for a second day. Britain's Commissioner Elizabeth Denham told the BBC that she was investigating Facebook and has asked the company not to pursue its own audit of Cambridge Analytica's data use. Denham is also pursuing a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's servers. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo, File)
Community

Facebook’s Zuckerberg admits mistakes, outlines fixes

Zuckerberg said Wednesday that Facebook has a "responsibility" to protect its users' data and if it fails, "we don't deserve to serve you."

8 years ago

Aishat Alhaji, second, right, one of the kidnapped girls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi who was freed, is photographed after her release, in Dapchi, Nigeria, Wednesday March. 21, 2018. Witnesses say Boko Haram militants have returned an unknown number of the 110 girls who were abducted from their Nigeria school a month ago. (Jossy Ola/AP Photo)
Community

Boko Haram returns Nigeria girls, warns not to put in school

Boko Haram Islamic extremists brought back nearly all of the 110 girls they had kidnapped from a boarding school last month.

8 years ago

Chief Executive of Cambridge Analytica (CA) Alexander Nix
National Interest
Politics & Policy

5 new accelerants for the raging Trumpster fire

What's fueling the Trumpster fire this week? Cambridge Analytica, the Kremlin, the extramarital ladies, Fox News, and Millennial women.

8 years ago

People lay flowers at the place where Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down, next to the Kremlin Wall, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018. Thousands of Russians took to the streets of downtown Moscow to mark three years since Nemtsov was gunned down outside the Kremlin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Russia takes center stage

Guest: Sergio Caltagirone, Luke Harding  Over the past couple of years, the Kremlin has surpris ...

Air Date: March 19, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:28
In Moscow, Russian voters will head to the polls on Sunday to cast their votes in the country's presidential election.
(Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

From pride to protest: How Russians feel about their presidential election

More than 140 million people live in Russia, and their opinions on politics, politicians and policy run the gamut.

8 years ago

In this photo of a letter released by Vatican Media, retired Pope Benedict XVI praises a volume of books about the theological training of Pope Francis. The Vatican admitted Thursday, March 14, 2018 that it blurred the final two lines of the letter's first page, where Benedict begins to acknowledge that he didn't read the books and doesn't have time to write a theological assessment of Francis as requested. (Vatican Media photo via AP)
Community

Vatican bows to pressure, releases retired pope’s letter

The so-called "Lettergate" scandal has embarrassed the Vatican for the past week.

8 years ago

British ambassador to Russia, Laurie Bristow, leaves after a meeting at the Russian foreign ministry building in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 17, 2018. Russia's Foreign Ministry has summoned Bristow for talks in a heightening dispute over a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain. Russia is expected to announce the expulsion of some British diplomats in a retaliatory measure. (Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Russia expels 23 UK envoys, blames others for spy poisoning

The poisoning has plunged Britain and Russia into a war of recrimination and blame.

8 years ago

Steel coils sit on rail cars leaving the Thyssenkrupp steel factory in Duisburg, Germany
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Some area Democrats supporting Trump trade moves, while GOP lawmakers object

Trump's more isolationist view of the U.S. isn't winning over the GOP majority, says Congressman Ryan Costello, a Republican who represents an area west of Philadelphia.

8 years ago

Listen 4:07
Internet activist Lyudmila Savchuk spent two months working in a
NPR
Politics & Policy

Meet the activist who uncovered the Russian troll factory named in the Mueller probe

Internet activist Lyudmila Savchuk spent two months working undercover at the troll factory in 2015, creating fake social media accounts and writing blog posts.

8 years ago

Special counsel Robert Mueller at the Capitol in June. The New York Times reports President Trump intended to fire him that month but was dissuaded by White House Counsel Don McGahn.
Politics & Policy

NYT: Mueller subpoenas Trump company, demands documents on Russia

President Donald Trump's company says it has been turning over documents for months in response to requests from federal investigators.

8 years ago

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