Nikki Haley

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been peddling theories that the U.S. is not only meddling with his business allies, but in the 2018 Russian elections and even the upcoming Olympic games. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, file)

Kremlin: US trying to turn oligarchs against Putin

Joel Gehrke · November 30, 2017 11:06 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the U.S. push to tighten international sanctions on North Korea "deliberately aim to provoke Pyongyang into taking new drastic steps ... One gets the impression that everything was deliberately done to make Kim Jong Un lose his nerve and take another reckless action."

Beltway Confidential

Why Russia is trolling the US on North Korea

Tom Rogan · November 30, 2017 8:09 pm

A former White House aide said it was Tillerson's decision last week to avoid sending a senior delegation to India for Ivanka Trump's trip to the annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit that has led Kushner to push hard for the secretary of state's firing. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Jared Kushner seen as ‘100 percent’ behind White House plans to oust Rex Tillerson

Gabby Morrongiello and Sarah Bedford · November 30, 2017 5:54 pm

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, "It appears that the latest US actions deliberately aim to provoke Pyongyang into taking new drastic steps." (Hoang Dinh Nam/Pool Photo via AP)

National Security

Russia accuses US of trying ‘to provoke’ North Korea

Joel Gehrke · November 30, 2017 3:36 pm

"The dictator of North Korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war, not farther from it," Ambassador Nikki Haley told the U.N. Security Council. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

National Security

Nikki Haley: World ‘closer to war’ with North Korea

Joel Gehrke · November 29, 2017 10:50 pm

Fact Check: Did the U.S. Vote ‘No’ on a U.N. Resolution to Combat Nazism?

Holmes Lybrand · November 27, 2017 4:54 pm

When it comes to Assad's chemical atrocities, Putin must not get a pass. (Alexei Druzhinin, RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Beltway Confidential

Russia is trying to hide Syrian chemical weapons attacks — don’t let them

Tom Rogan · November 20, 2017 3:36 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (pictured above) attacked U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley following a particularly contentious U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday, which saw the Russian government veto an American-led effort to reauthorize a panel investigating chemical weapons attacks in Syria. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Sergey Lavrov accuses Nikki Haley of ‘fake diplomacy’

Joel Gehrke · November 17, 2017 7:59 pm

Eighteen college championship teams are attending an event Friday with President Trump. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

University of South Carolina women’s basketball team declines White House invitation

Melissa Quinn · November 17, 2017 4:28 pm

An investigation by the United Nation's international chemical weapons watchdog has concluded that sarin was used as a chemical weapon in an April attack on a Syrian town that left roughly 100 people dead. A report last week concluded Syrian President Bashar Assad was behind that attack. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

White House issues sharp rebuke of Russia over Syria chemical weapons inquiry

Diana Stancy Correll · November 2, 2017 3:23 am

U.S. United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley address the United Nations Security Council, during the U.N. General Assembly, Thursday Sept. 21, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Nikki Haley apologizes to Cubans for ‘casual cruelty’ of Obama administration

Joel Gehrke · November 1, 2017 6:27 pm

The truth is that Iran, while contributing to conflict in the Middle East, isn't the only accelerant. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Beltway Confidential

Trump administration taking its eye off the ball in the Middle East

Daniel DePetris · October 30, 2017 4:46 pm