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Summary List Placement President Donald Trump smirked when supporters at his campaign rally on Friday revived a familiar chant. "Lock him up!" they shouted as the president laughed. "Lock him up!" The chants were referring to the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, whom Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have long accused of being in bed with corrupt...

Summary List PlacementHours after Germany announced that the nerve agent Novichok was found in the system of Alexei Navalny, President Donald Trump remained silent on the matter. The president spent a good portion of the day attacking his political opponents on Twitter, but did not take time to offer support to Navalny — Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent. Trump also barely acknowledged...

Alexei Navalny was likely poisoned, according to German doctors. Russian doctors previously said that Navalny, a prominent opponent of Putin, did not have traces of poison in his system.  "The patient is in an intensive care unit and is still in an induced coma. His health is serious but there is currently no acute danger to his life," the German hospital where Navalny is...

The personal banker of President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner is facing an internal review from her employer, Deutsche Bank, The New York Times reported Sunday. Deutsche Bank is looking into Rosemary Vrablic over her 2013 purchase of a New York City apartment from a company part-owned Kushner, a Deutsche Bank spokesperson confirmed. Kushner and Trump are longtime clients of Vrablic, who...

Former national security adviser Susan Rice on Sunday said the Trump administration's narrative on the Russia bounty plot doesn't add up. "I don't buy this story that [Trump] was never briefed," Rice, who served as former President Barack Obama's adviser from 2013–2017, said in an interview with Andrea Mitchell on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We have a president who is doing our arch-adversary's bidding,"...

President Donald Trump is facing bipartisan pressure over when he was informed of intelligence that Russia had offered bounties to the Taliban to kill US troops, and what action he took. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the White House was aware of the intelligence as early as January 2019 and that Trump was given the information in a written briefing. That was months...

The Trump administration is under fire amid reports that the White House failed to take action after being briefed on intelligence showing that Russia paid Taliban-linked militants secret bounties to kill American troops. The White House pushed back on the reports, saying the president was never briefed on the intelligence because there was dissent within the intelligence community about its credibility. The White House's...

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the new edition of Insider Today.  Please sign up here to receive it in your inbox. QUOTE OF THE DAY "When I heard President Trump say we only had 15 cases and by the end of the week that it would be zero, I knew that it was time to act." — Reverend Derrick DeWitt, director of the Maryland Baptist Aged...

White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien said it's "no surprise" that Russian operatives are likely working to elect Vermont Sen. and Democratic frontrunner Bernie Sanders.  But O'Brien, who made the comments on ABC's "This Week," said he didn't believe reports that Russia is trying to help President Donald Trump's bid for re-election. "I have not seen that and I get pretty good access...to...

The US could be near the brink of war with Iran again after months of rising tensions.  The Pentagon on Thursday announced the US had killed a top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani.  Iran's top diplomat described Soleimani's death as an act of "international terrorism" by the US. A war with Iran would likely be geopolitically and economically disastrous while further destabilizing a region that...

Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's public feud with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in October has raised the Hawaii lawmaker's profile in the time since, according to a new Insider poll. At the same time, however, the poll found that Gabbard's favorability dropped significantly in the same period.  This suggests that Clinton's opinion still carries a fair amount of weight with Democratic voters. It...

Donald Trump Jr., son of President Donald Trump, is an executive vice president of the Trump Organization. The 41-year-old, who has five children, has lived the majority of his life in the shadow of his father and sister Ivanka, but since his dad became president, his outspoken, anti-political-correct stance has come into its own. While Ivanka and his father are seen as city-dwellers, Donald...

President Donald Trump on Friday signaled he's considering attending Russia's Victory Day parade, an annual military parade and celebration of the defeat of Nazi Germany.  "It's a very big deal, celebrating the end of the war," Trump said to reporters. Attending the parade would be highly controversial given the historic level of animosity between Moscow and Washington. If Trump accepts Putin's invitation, it would...

Russian President Vladimir Putin went on a victory lap this week, replacing the US as chief power broker in Syria, and gaining a closer ally in Europe's backyard. This is a far cry from the Putin of 2014, who became an international pariah after promoting civil unrest in Ukraine and annexing Crimea. President Donald Trump effectively handed him these victories by pulling out of...

President Donald Trump told two top Russian officials in 2017 that he wasn't worried about Russia's interference in the 2016 election, The Washington Post reported Friday. Trump said he wasn't bothered by it because the US had also conducted similar operations, the report said. White House officials were said to have been so alarmed by the remarks that they limited the number of people...