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Trump is behaving more and more like a 'controlled spy'

National-security experts have reached a consensus: Russian President Vladimir Putin played US President Donald Trump like a fiddle during their summit in Helsinki this week.

The DOJ indicted an NRA-linked Russian national and charged her with spying

Maria Butina, a Russian gun-rights activist with deep ties to the National Rifle Association, was arrested on espionage charges this weekend. Butina is accused of working as a Russian agent at the direction of a high ranking Russian government official believed to be Alexander Torshin.

Trump says he doesn't 'see any reason' why Russia would have hacked the US election when asked whether he believes Putin or the US intel community

President Donald Trump indicated on Monday that he believes Russia over the US intelligence community about the Kremlin's meddling in the 2016 election. Asked whether he would publicly condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin for the interference, Trump bashed the DNC, Hillary Clinton, and the FBI.

Chris Christie defends DNC chair Donna Brazile in fiery panel on the new Russian hacking indictments

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stepped up to defend a rather unlikely person on Sunday — former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile. But they had a common criticism: the media's handling of the 2016 DNC hack.

What Trump and Putin hope to get out of their big Helsinki summit on Monday

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are meeting in Helsinki on Monday for a historic summit. The president of the US has not prepared and doesn't have a clear agenda so it is a guess what America will get out of the meeting with Russia.