The children of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi have received multimillion-dollar homes and are being paid thousands of dollars per month by the kingdom's authorities, The Washington Post reported Monday. Khashoggi — a contributor to the Post and a critic of the Saudi government — ...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi tells Washington Post 'I'm not for impeachment' as Trump's 'just not worth it'
No effort should be made to impeach President Donald Trump unless the reasons are overwhelming and bipartisan, given how divisive it would be for the country, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a Washington Post interview published on Monday. "I'm not for impeachment," Pelosi, ...
U.S. disrupted Russian trolls on day of November 2018 election: Washington Post
The U.S. military disrupted the internet access of a Russian troll farm accused of trying to influence American voters on Nov. 6, 2018, the day of the congressional elections, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The U.S. Cyber Command strike targeted the Internet Research Agency ...
Tabloid CEO's lawyer denies National Enquirer tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos
The National Enquirer committed neither extortion nor blackmail by threatening to publish intimate photos of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, an attorney for the head of the tabloid's parent company said Sunday. Elkan Abromowitz, an attorney for American Media Inc. chief executive David Pecker, said on ...
Two years into President Donald Trump's administration, a majority of Americans have lost confidence in the brash real estate magnate's performance on everything from the economy to foreign policy, a poll showed Monday. The ABC News/Washington Post poll was published after Trump suffered a major ...
Venezuela defense minister asked Maduro to resign over alleged sham re-election: Washington Post
Venezuela's defense minister told socialist President Nicolas Maduro to step down last month, and said he would offer his own resignation if he did not, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing an anonymous U.S. intelligence official. Both Maduro and Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez ...
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether President Donald Trump's former Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, lied to Department of Interior investigators in what could be a potential criminal violation, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The Post, citing three people familiar with the matter, ...
Saudis implicate ex-royal aide, top spy in Jamal Khashoggi killing, plan to execute five
A former Saudi royal adviser and ex-senior intelligence official played key roles in the mission that ultimately led to the killing of government critic Jamal Khashoggi, and authorities will seek the death penalty for five people who confessed to the murder, according to a ...
'Khashoggi's friends' hold vigil outside Saudi Consulate in Istanbul
Dozens of people gathered outside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Thursday in a vigil to demand "full justice" for journalist Jamal Khashoggi, killed after entering the building three weeks ago. Several carried cardboard images of his face and signs reading "Khashoggi's friends." One, his ...
Erdogan: Saudis must punish those behind Jamal Khashoggi's 'planned' slaying, no matter how high up
Turkey's president on Tuesday dismissed Saudi Arabia's efforts to blame the killing of a prominent journalist on rogue operatives, calling it a planned, "savage killing," and demanded Riyadh punish those responsible, no matter how highly placed. But Recep Tayyip Erdogan stopped short of mentioning Crown ...
Jared Kushner takes wait-and-see approach to Saudi critic's slaying
White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Monday he had urged Saudi Arabia's crown prince to be transparent about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, and told him "the world is watching" Riyadh's account of the journalist's disappearance. Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of ...
Conservative U.S. commentator Charles Krauthammer, a Fox fixture, dies at 68
Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Krauthammer, who gave up a psychiatric career to become one of the leading conservative political commentators in the U.S. media, died on Thursday at the age of 68, the Washington Post and Fox News said. Krauthammer was a fixture on the ...
