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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime former lawyer and fixer, exchanged more than 230 phone calls and nearly 1,000 text messages with an American businessman tied to a prominent Russian oligarch after Trump won the 2016 US election. The revelat…

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday to discuss a range of topics, including Russia and decision-making in the Trump administration, a committee aide told HuffPost. The closed-door session, first rep…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea has labeled Joe Biden a fool of low IQ and an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being after the U.S. presidential hopeful called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a tyrant during a recent speech. Pyongyangs of…

Kiev (AFP) - Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has already been inaugurated as president of Ukraine -- as a character in the popular TV show "Servant of the People". Now the 41-year-old performer will take the role for real, following a long-shot campaign that sen…

We’re trying something new: a once-a-week national-security-focused edition of The Atlantic ’s signature politics newsletter. We’ll tell you what to keep an eye on this week, what our reporters are covering, and why the latest foreign-policy developments are …

WASHINGTON (AP) House Democrats will hear from former CIA Director John Brennan about the situation in Iran, inviting him to speak next week amid heightened concerns over the Trump administration's sudden moves in the region. Brennan, an outspoken critic of …

Nearly three decades after the Cold War’s end, it’s no longer clear that American-style liberal democracy has carried the day. Xi Jinping has consolidated power in China on a scale not seen since Mao. Vladimir Putin has served longer than any other Russian le…

Most of his predecessors did nothing of the kind. They understood that the day belonged to the country, not its leader, and they didnt conflate the two. Trump does, all the time, and its alternately annoying, confounding and galling. If youre not thrilling t…

President Donald Trump says he discussed special counsel Mueller's report with Russia's Vladimir Putin. Trump says Putin described the investigation as "something to the effect that it started off as a mountain and it ended up being a mouse." (May 3) AP TA…

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, left, waits for the start of a meeting at the European Council, in Brussels, on May 13, 2019. FRANCOIS LENOIR/The Associated Press Iran and the United States could trigger a conflict by accident in an already unstable …