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Bay Area Families In Limbo After Russia Enacts Adoption Ban
SAN JOSE (KCBS) — Bay Area adoption agencies are scrambling to help families caught in the middle of a new Russian policy banning adoptions to the United States. At least one Bay Area family was in the...
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KCBS In Depth: No Easy Answers In Ukraine Crisis
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — The situation in Ukraine initially began weeks ago as protests over the handling of a trade pact with the European Union but later escalated to the ousting of the pro-Russian...
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Politics Test Silicon Valley’s Russian Ties
SAN MATEO (CBS/AP) — Entrepreneurs and investors say Silicon Valley’s fast-growing financial ties with Russia’s tech sector are being slowed down by current political tensions between the White House...
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Top 4 Most Troublesome Athlete Selfies
By Jordan Tracy The “selfie” craze is something that is still clogging all of our social media feeds. Bathroom selfies, beach selfies, concert selfies and now even celebratory goal selfies? Athletes...
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Russian Lawmaker Exiled In Bay Area After Standing Up To President Putin
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_20150504013653733AA.mp4 SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A Russian lawmaker who dared to stand up to President Vladimir Putin is for all intents and purposes stuck in...
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Elton John Says Putin Agreed To Meet, Discuss Russia’s Anti-Gay Policy
LONDON (AP) — Elton John says Vladimir Putin has phoned him, after the musician requested a meeting to discuss Russia’s anti-gay environment, but Russian officials deny the report. On Instagram, the...
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Russian Comedians Prank Elton John, Pretend To Be President Putin Calling To...
MOSCOW (CBS/AP) — Two Russian pranksters said Wednesday they fooled Elton John into believing that Russian President Vladimir Putin had given him a call. The British star on Tuesday posted a message on...
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Russia Imprisons Dozens For Social Media Posts Criticizing Kremlin
TVER, Russia (CBS / AP) — Anastasia Bubeyeva shows a screenshot on her computer of a picture of a toothpaste tube with the words: “Squeeze Russia out of yourself!” For sharing this picture on a social...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin Grants Russian Citizenship To Actor Steven...
MOSCOW (CBS SF/AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Russian citizenship to action film actor Steven Seagal, the Kremlin said Thursday. The 64-year-old Seagal has been a regular visitor to...
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Putin Sends Trump Congratulatory Telegram
MOSCOW (AP) — The world will face a starkly different America when President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office in January. While the billionaire businessman’s triumph was welcomed in some...
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Vladimir Putin Issues Russian Passport To Steven Seagal
MOSCOW (CBS SF/AP) – President Vladimir Putin has given a Russian passport to U.S. action film star Steven Seagal, calling it a sign of a thaw in relations with the United States. The 64-year old actor...
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States Re-Examine Security After Russia-Linked Malware Targets Utility In...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Several states around the country on Saturday asked cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware...
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Kremlin Counts Days To Trump’s Inauguration, Blasts Obama
MOSCOW (AP) — Exulted by Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S., the Kremlin is counting the days to his inauguration and venting its anger at Barack Obama’s outgoing administration, no holds barred....
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Trump, Putin Discuss ‘Mutually Beneficial’ Trade, Security During Hour-Long...
WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) — President Donald Trump had an hour-long discussion Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin — the first since Trump assumed office last week — raising questions over the...
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GOP California Congressman Calls for Special Prosecutor in Probe of...
WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) — A Republican congressman has called for a special prosecutor to investigate whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and was in touch with President Donald...
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Congressman Swalwell Launches Webpage Outlining Trump’s Ties To Russia
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — East Bay Congressman Rep. Eric Swalwell launched a new webpage Wednesday for the sole purpose of highlighting the ties between the Russian government and the Trump...
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Comey Says FBI Investigating Russia Election Influence; Disputes Wiretap Claim
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey confirmed Monday that the bureau is investigating possible links and coordination between Russia and associates of President Donald Trump as part of a broader...
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AP: Ex-Trump Campaign Chairman Had Plan To Benefit Putin Gov’t
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago...
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Nunes Briefs Trump, Press On Russia Probe; Leaves Committee Out Of Loop
WASHINGTON (AP) — Communications of Donald Trump’s transition officials — possibly including the incoming president himself — may have been scooped up in legal surveillance but then improperly...
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Trump Faces Fallout Over Comey Appeal, Intelligence Sharing
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump faced fallout Wednesday over revelations that he personally appealed to now-fired FBI Director James Comey to abandon the bureau’s investigation into former...
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Putin: ‘Patriotic’ Russian Individuals May Have Engaged In Hacking
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — President Vladimir Putin insisted Thursday that the Russian state has never engaged in hacking and scoffed at allegations that hackers could influence the outcome of elections...
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Pelosi Calls On Trump To Confront Putin On Election Meddling
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is adding her name to the list of high-ranking Democrats who are demanding that President Donald Trump confront Russian leader Vladimir Putin...
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Putin Orders 755 Cut From U.S. Diplomatic Staff In Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday the United States would have to cut its embassy and consulate staff in Russia by 755 under new sanctions from Moscow. Russian’s Foreign...
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Leaked Documents Show Trump Administration Cabinet Member Has Stake in Firm...
NEW YORK (AP) — Newly leaked documents show that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, the Trump administration’s point man on trade and manufacturing policy, has a stake in a company that does business with...
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Trump Says He Believes Putin Is Sincere In Denying Russian Election Interference
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — President Donald Trump said Russia’s Vladimir Putin once again vehemently denied interfering in the 2016 U.S. elections during their discussions on the sidelines of an economic...
View ArticlePutin Shows Off New Russian Doomsday Weapons in State-of-the-Nation Speech
MOSCOW (AP) — An underwater drone armed with a nuclear warhead powerful enough to sweep away coastal facilities and aircraft carriers. A hypersonic vehicle impossible to intercept as it flies in a...
View ArticleFeinstein, Pelosi Urge Trump To Pressure Putin To Extradite Indicted Russians
(CNN) — Several Democratic leaders in Congress sent a letter to President Donald Trump calling on him to put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to extradite the Russians who were indicted in...
View ArticlePutin Cruises to Overwhelming Victory in Fraud-Tainted Russian Vote
MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Putin rolled to a crushing re-election victory Sunday for six more years as Russia’s president, and he told cheering supporters in a triumphant but brief speech that “we are...
View ArticleTrump Furious Over Leak Of Warning To Not Congratulate Putin
(CNN) — President Donald Trump was infuriated after it quickly leaked that he had been directly instructed by his national security advisers in briefing materials not to congratulate Russian President...
View ArticleWhite House Confirms Trump, Putin Discussed Washington Summit
(CNN) — President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the possibility of meeting at the White House during a phone call last month, the White House confirmed on Monday. “As the...
View ArticleTrump Calls Out ‘Animal Assad’ and Putin for Syria Gas Attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday condemned a “mindless CHEMICAL attack” in Syria that killed women and children, called Syrian President Bashar Assad an “animal” and said there would...
View ArticlePelosi Asks What Russia Has On Trump, Won’t Promise Hearings
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she wants to know what leverage the Russians have over President Donald Trump, but wouldn’t say whether she’d favor hearings on the...
View ArticleTrump Declines To Side With US Intelligence Over Putin
(CNN) — US President Donald Trump, in a stunning rebuke of the US intelligence community, declined on Monday to endorse the US government’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential...
View ArticleDem, GOP Lawmakers Call Trump’s Helsinki Performance ‘Bizarre,’‘Shameful’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Key members of Congress, including some Republicans, are criticizing President Donald Trump’s performance at a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin as “bizarre,”...
View ArticleProtesters Project ‘Traitor Trump’ Onto SF Federal Building
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS) – In response to the President’s comments at the summit in Helsinki, protesters were calling President Trump a traitor and projected an image onto the San Francisco Federal...
View ArticleTrump Claims He Misspoke About Russian Meddling In Putin Summit
(CBS News) President Trump on Tuesday claimed he accepts the findings of the U.S. intelligence community that Russians interfered in the 2016 election. He also said he misspoke when he suggested...
View ArticleTrump Denies Russia Is Targeting U.S. At Cabinet Meeting
(CBS News) — President Trump has denied that Russia is currently targeting the U.S., despite the intelligence community’s findings. Mr. Trump made the assertion Wednesday at his first Cabinet meeting...
View ArticleTrump Invites Putin to Visit White House This Fall
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unbowed by swirling criticism of his summit encounter with Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump swiftly invited the Russian leader to the White House this fall for a second...
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