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The Clooney Foundation for Justice, founded by George Clooney and his wife Amal, is speaking out about the upcoming libel trial of Russian dissident Aleksey Navalny. The opposition leader and vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin was sentenced this week to more than two years in prison after being convicted of…

UPDATE:  Elton John is “mistaken” about LGBT rights in Russia, claims Vladimir Putin. The Russian President was responding to an Instagram post from John, who said that he was deeply upset by prior remarks from Putin that liberal values were “obsolete” and that Putin’s claim of non-interference with LGBT rights seems…

Elton John is calling out Russian President Vladimir Putin’s disingenuous statements about gay rights by noting that Russian film distributors heavily censored Rocketman “by removing all references to my finding true happiness” with husband David Furnish. In an open letter released by John’s publicist, the iconic rock…

UPDATE, with new video Day 2 of the the G20 Summit in Osaka brought ever more detente between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as the two mockingly commiserated over “fake news” in their respective countries as the U.S. president jokingly admonished Putin against interfering in U.S. elections. See video…

An impromptu press conference by President Donald Trump shed little light but created some heat when a CNN question about conversations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin came up. Heading to Marine One on Wednesday, Trump was asked by CNN’s Sarah Westwood whether he will ask Putin “not to meddle in the 2020 election” when…

Seth Meyers took a “Closer Look” at President Trump’s ironclad proof he did not collude with Russia: a phone call with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin. Special counsel Robert Mueller spent two years putting together a 400+ page report documenting Trump's various links to Putin. Trump decided that late last week was the…

President Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen has postponed his testimony before the House Oversight Committee, citing threats from President Donald Trump and lawyer Rudy Giuliani against his family. In what TV news pundits had been eagerly describing as Must See TV, Cohen had volunteered to testify before the…

ABC News is the latest media outlet shocked – shocked! – to report Donald Trump’s The Apprentice producer partner/pal Mark Burnett has had dealings with Russians connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Burnett has boasted of being in business, or at least in business talks, with Putin’s circle. In Tuesday’s…

After two days of ducking direct answers to questions as to whether he had ever worked, wittingly or not, as an agent of Russia, President Trump walked out on the White House lawn Monday to finally insist he had not in a pop-up presser. “It's a lot of fake news,” Trump insisted. “That was a very good meeting, very…

Remember how 2017 was supposed to go into the books as the wildest in U.S. political history, what with the country having just elected as president a real estate developer turned reality TV star who had launched his political career championing the conspiracy theory about the sitting president not being a U.S…

Black Panther co-writer and director Ryan Coogler, murdered Washington Post op-ed columnist Jamal Khashoggi and Russian ruler/alleged U.S. election influencer Vladimir Putin join President Donald Trump in contention for Time magazine’s Person of The Year 2018. NBC News’ Today got the jump on this year’s derby…

President Donald Trump kicked off the week tweeting about his “extraordinary” meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit, his “very strong and personal relationship” with Xi, describing himself and XI as “the only two people” in the world who “can bring about massive and very positive change” on trade…