Politics
- Dylan Stableford
Trump says he believes Putin that Russia didn't interfere in election
President Trump emerged from his historic summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday saying he doesn’t believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
- David Knowles
On Fox, Putin compares murdering rivals with Kennedy, King assassinations
Trump deflects criticism with moral relativism, a tactic popularly known as “whataboutism.” Evidently, his Russian counterpart shares that tendency.
- Michael Isikoff
NRA-linked Russian aide arrested, charged as foreign agent
Just hours after the disastrous summit in Helsinki, the FBI arrested a Russian gun-rights activist with links to the NRA and the Trump campaign and charged her as a foreign agent.
- Alexander Nazaryan
Trump and Putin: The admiration is mutual, the benefits one-sided
Back in 2016, 122 Republican foreign policy experts denounced the campaign of Donald Trump, charging among other things that Trump’s “admiration for foreign dictators such as Vladimir Putin is unacceptable for the leader of the world’s greatest democracy.”
- David Knowles
Trending: Trump and Putin at the #TreasonSummit
At the conclusion of President Trump's extraordinary joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, critical reaction flooded in from members of the media, political analysts and government officials, but none resonated more than that of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.
- Michael Walsh
Putin dismisses, but doesn't quite deny, rumors Russia has compromised Trump
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not explicitly deny whether Moscow had collected compromising information on President Trump when asked at a press conference in Helsinki.
- Hunter Walker
Reporter forcibly removed from the audience ahead of Trump's press conference with Putin
Sam Husseini, who was covering the press conference for the Nation, was removed by Secret Service agents. “You’re grabbing me? For what? I’m telling you what I’m doing,” Husseini said. “I’m being totally open. What the hell.”
Yahoo News Photo StaffObama visits father's native Kenya to open youth center
Former US president Barack Obama paid a visit to his extended family in Kenya Monday, on his first trip to the country since 2015 during which he will open a youth center. Obama arrived in his father’s native Kenya on Sunday, where he paid courtesy calls on President Uhuru Kenyatta and main opposition leader Raila Odinga. On Monday he flew to the west of the country, where under extremely tight security he paid a visit to the home of his step-grandmother Sarah Obama in the village of Kogelo, an AFP reporter said.
Yahoo News Photo StaffTrump meets Putin in Helsinki
The outcome of the first summit between the unpredictable first-term American president and Russia’s steely-eyed longtime leader is anybody’s guess. What Trump wants from Russia has long been one of the great mysteries of his presidency.
Hunter WalkerTrump meets Putin, predicts they will have an ‘extraordinary relationship’
President Trump’s highly anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin began on Monday in Helsinki.
Michael WalshTrump calls the European Union a foe of the United States
President Trump listed the European Union as one of the biggest U.S. foes while visiting the United Kingdom.
Yahoo News Photo StaffProtests in Helsinki ahead of Trump-Putin summit
Protesters in the Finnish capital on Sunday denounced the meeting of a "man-baby" and "evil spy" as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin prepared to go head to head in a historic summit clouded by Russia's alleged manipulation of the 2016 US election.
Yahoo News Photo StaffPro-Trump rally by English far-right activists in London
English far-right activists cheered on Saturday when a large cut out picture of Trump was unveiled during a march through central London. The few thousand strong group were made up of those who were on a "Welcome Trump" march and another larger one in support of the jailed far-right activist, Tommy Robinson.
- Yahoo News Photo Staff
Thousands protest President Trump in Scotland
From the capital of Edinburgh to seaside golf resorts, thousands in Scotland staged colorful, peaceful protests against Donald Trump on Saturday as the president played golf at one of his luxury retreats.
- James Kitfield
What's at stake in Trump's summit with Putin
On Monday in Helsinki, it will be President Trump’s turn to take the measure of the former KGB agent steeped in the cloak-and-dagger culture of Cold War espionage. Vladimir Putin has shown himself to be not only utterly ruthless, but also arguably the greatest geopolitical risk taker of his generation of leaders.
- Yahoo News Video
PHOTOS: 'Trump baby' balloon flies in London
A giant balloon depicting Donald Trump as an orange, screaming, diaper-clad baby flew outside the British Parliament on Friday, launched by protesters deploying caustic humor against the U.S. president's first official visit to the U.K. (Reuters)
- Michael Isikoff
Justice Department lays out its case against 12 Russian officers accused of hacking Democrats in 2016
The long-awaited indictment reveals startling new details about Russia’s 2016 election efforts -- including the leasing of U.S. based servers paid for with bitcoin — and fills out key gaps in the story of how top officials of one of Vladimir Putin’s premier intelligence services, known as the GRU, plotted to meddle in both U.S. congressional races and the presidential race.
- David Knowles
Trump whiplash: From Supreme Court euphoria to foreign turbulence
Even for an administration whose highs and lows seem to follow one another with dizzying speed, the week that was proved especially turbulent.
- Dylan Stableford
Russia indictments undercut Trump's denials
Special counsel Robert Mueller charges 12 Russian intelligence officials with hacking the Democratic National Committee's server, a claim Trump once mocked.
Yahoo News StaffUnfiltered: ‘If you’re an ICE agent … quit your job’
On the corner of West Houston and Varick Streets in New York City is a towering beige building. The Varick Street building is home to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center, where immigrants are detained and appear before an immigration court. According to data from ICE, the total number of immigrant arrests in New York City has increased by more than 65 percent in just the last year.
- Hunter Walker
Trump promises to release recording that proves he was victim of 'fake news,' but White House won't provide the tape
President Trump dismissed an article published by England's the Sun as “fake news” and suggested the White House had a recording that would prove it. Though Trump declared his press shop would release the tape, the White House did not respond to multiple requests from Yahoo News asking for the recording.
- Dylan Stableford
Trump trashes immigration in Europe as British PM praises it in U.K.
President Trump doubled down Friday on his assertion that immigration has damaged the cultural fabric of Europe, while British Prime Minister Theresa May said it “has been good” for the United Kingdom.
Yahoo News Photo StaffTrump makes first trip to Britain as president
Trump spent the last day of a four-day visit to Britain at his luxury Turnberry golf resort in southwest Scotland ahead of a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Sunday.
- Michael Isikoff
Brett Kavanaugh's ex-boss: It's 'preposterous' to demand his recusal from Mueller cases
Timothy Flanigan, a deputy White House counsel during the George W. Bush administration, told Yahoo News that he sees no reason Brett Kavanaugh should have to recuse himself from cases involving the president who nominated him to SCOTUS.
- Jon Ward
Why ex-Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels doesn't speak out
Former Republican governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels talks about institutions a lot, but he’s also taken a vow that backs up his belief in their importance: He refuses to directly talk about politics.
