The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, a top aide to Navalny said Saturday on his social media account. Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, made the announcement on his Telegram account and thanked “everyone” who had called on Russian authorities to return Navalny’s body … Read more
RIGA, Latvia — Russian authorities sharply increased the pressure on Alexei Navalny’s mother on Friday to agree to bury him in a quiet, private funeral — issuing her a three-hour ultimatum and threatening to inter him on the grounds of the prison colony where he died suddenly last week, a former top aide to the … Read more
Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, through her attorney, responded Friday to one of House Republicans’ top impeachment witnesses, Tony Bobulinski, claiming in a letter first obtained by ABC News that comments he made in his recent interview with the House Oversight Committee were “defamatory,” with her attorney providing a photo of an alleged … Read more
Former President Donald Trump may currently be relentlessly attacking his Republican 2024 presidential primary rival Nikki Haley. But for Olivia Troye, who served in the Trump White House as an aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, it’s a stark contrast to the previous warm atmosphere between the pair. Troye, during an appearance on Johanna … Read more
Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House communications director under Donald Trump, said a shocking courtroom hypothetical about presidents ordering people killed may not be so hypothetical when it comes to her former boss. Attorneys for Trump this week argued that presidential immunity means a president can’t be prosecuted unless impeached and convicted first … Read more
A member of a Democratic senator’s staffer has been sacked after filming himself having sex in a congressional hearing room. Aidan Maese-Czeropski, 24, who works for Maryland senator Ben Cardin, recorded his encounter with another man on the dais of the judiciary room. The video surfaced on the Right-wing news website, The Daily Caller, which … Read more
A Ukrainian official says a top aide to the commander of the nation’s military was killed by a grenade given to him as a birthday gift ByILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press November 7, 2023, 8:54 AM KYIV, Ukraine — A top aide to the commander of Ukraine’s military was killed by … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave KYIV — A top aide to the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces was killed Monday when a birthday gift exploded, the military leader announced. In a message published on Telegram, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny said that his assistant, Maj. Hennadii Chastiakov, was killed under “tragic circumstances” while celebrating … Read more
LONDON — The former top aide to ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday painted a picture of widespread chaos and dysfunction in the U.K. government during the coronavirus pandemic. In keenly awaited testimony to the country’s public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, Dominic Cummings, a self-styled political disruptor, was withering about many of the … Read more
An adviser for a Los Angeles City Council member is out of a job after making Holocaust jokes about Amy Schumer on social media. “The social media posts made by my staffer earlier today were disturbing and reprehensible,” Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez wrote in a statement after Josh Androsky’s vile tweets began to circulate. “With antisemitism … Read more