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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 467

Richard Lardner

This image from Maxar Technologies shows a nursing home in the eastern region of Luhansk, Ukraine, on March 22, 2022. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)
July 9, 2022, 9:30 am
UN says Ukraine stationed troops in nursing home, bears some blame for March attack
Dozens of elderly, bedridden Ukrainians were killed in deadly assault; human right’s office report says military made the facility a target by taking up positions there
By Richard Lardner and Beatrice Dupuy
Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, listens to Lebedinsky GOK Managing Director Oleg Mikhailov, left, as businessman and founder of USM Holdings, Alisher Usmanov, right, and Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov stand behind him while visiting the Lebedinsky GOK JSC, in Gubkin, Belgorod Region, Russia, Friday, July 14, 2017. Usmanov is not on the sanctions list implemented in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The metals tycoon was an early investor in Facebook. His fortune is estimated at more than $14 billion. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
February 26, 2022, 3:32 pm
Ignoring the richest of Russia’s rich: Biden’s sanctions exclude Putin’s oligarchs
An estimated $800 billion is held overseas by wealthy Russians, some of it invested in everything from Facebook (Alisher Usmanov) to English soccer teams (Roman Abramovich)
By Michael Biesecker, Joshua Goodman, Sarah El Deeb and Richard Lardner
Supporters of then US president Donald Trump in Washington, January 6, 2021. (John Minchillo/AP)
January 18, 2021, 7:55 am
Former Trump campaign aides played key roles in organizing Washington rally
Several ex-officials have since scrambled to distance themselves from the Women for America First event which spawned the Capitol assault; some purge their social media accounts
By Richard Lardner and Michelle R. Smith
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the Oval Office of the White House, Oct. 2, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
October 7, 2019, 2:45 pm
New whistleblower may give House Democrats fresh leads
Second source said to corroborate original informant’s complaint about Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine into investigating former vice president Joe Biden
By Eric Tucker, Richard Lardner and Jill Colvin
In this Sept. 6, 2019, file photo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at the California GOP fall convention in Indian Wells, Calif. Perry pushed Ukraine’s president earlier in 2019 to replace members of a key supervisory board at Naftogaz, a massive state-owned petroleum company. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
October 7, 2019, 5:57 am
Trump allies said to have eyed takeover of Ukraine gas firm for lucrative deals
Soviet-born Florida real estate entrepreneurs Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman touted connections to president in bid to gain control of Naftogas, a project later taken up by Rick Perry
By Desmond Butler, Michael Biesecker and Richard Lardner
JUUL Labs co-founder and Chief Product Officer James Monsees testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 25, 2019, during a hearing on the youth nicotine epidemic. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
July 27, 2019, 10:51 pm
Amid vaping ‘epidemic,’ Juul exec says never intended e-cigarette for teens
James Monsees grilled by Congress as lawmakers accuse company of fueling craze among high-schoolers
By MATTHEW PERRONE and Richard Lardner
In this frame grab from from video, people search in the rubble following Saudi-led coalition airstrikes that killed at least six, including children, officials said, in the residential center of the capital, Sanaa, Yemen, May 16, 2019. (AP Photo)
July 18, 2019, 8:11 am
US House votes to block sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia
Lawmakers are concerned about high civilian causalities from Riyadh-led military campaign in Yemen, and Trump administration’s use of emergency protocol to approve $8 billion deal
By Richard Lardner
In this photo from November 29, 2017, Senator Al Franken (Democrat-Minnesota), arrives at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
November 30, 2017, 7:06 pm
In fifth accusation, Al Franken allegedly groped Army veteran during USO tour
Ex-military member is latest in last 2 weeks to accuse Jewish senator of inappropriate sexual conduct
By Richard Lardner and JULIET LINDERMAN
US President Donald Trump waves to US soldiers upon arriving at US Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on November 5, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Toshifumi KITAMURA)
November 7, 2017, 4:41 am
Trump seeks billions of dollars to counter North Korean missiles
President says America ‘will not stand’ for Pyongyang menacing its Asian allies
By Richard Lardner
An Iranian Shahab-3 missile launched during military exercises outside the city of Qom, Iran, in June 2011. (AP/ISNA/Ruhollah Vahdati)
October 26, 2017, 8:16 pm
US House approves bill to sanction Iran for ballistic missiles
Lawmakers vote 423-2 in favor of measure after Trump’s call to clamp down on Islamic Republic’s military development
By Richard Lardner
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., speaks during a television interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. Flake announced he would not run for re-election in 2018, condemning in a speech aimed at President Donald Trump the "flagrant disregard of truth and decency" that is undermining American democracy. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
October 25, 2017, 2:16 am
Republican Senator Flake will quit, says he can’t be complicit with Trump
The conservative politician slams current ‘flagrant disregard of truth and decency’ and warns GOP of becoming ‘fearful, backward-looking party’
By Richard Lardner and Andrew Taylor
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, speaks to reporters while heading to vote on budget amendments, Thursday, October 19, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
October 20, 2017, 11:51 pm
Draft GOP bill seeks more constraints on Iran’s nuke program
Motion would toughen provisions of JCPOA, including getting rid of original deal’s ‘sunset provisions’
By Richard Lardner
In this Sept. 19, 2017, photo, Senator Bob Corker is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)
October 14, 2017, 7:35 pm
Changing Iran nuclear deal in Congress won’t be easy, GOP finds
Republicans will have to win over skeptical Democrats and key allies in Europe who are wary of altering accord
By Richard Lardner
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-New York) attends a memorial vigil for victims of the Paris terror attack in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City, Nov. 15, 2015. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images via JTA)
October 11, 2017, 7:48 pm
Jewish Democrats who opposed Iran nuke deal now urge Trump to keep it
Eliot Engel and Ben Cardin say despite their opposition to accord, best path forward is to enforce its terms
By Richard Lardner
Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 27, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
October 8, 2017, 10:16 pm
Testy tweeting free-for-all between Trump, retiring GOP senator
Bob Corker calls White House ‘an adult day care center,’ after US president says Tennessee politician ‘didn’t have the guts to run’ again
By Richard Lardner
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