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Exclusive: Sources linked to the intelligence community say it is believed that the Russian hacker of the election, Pyotr Levashov, was paid directly by Boris Epshteyn on behalf of both Trump and the FSB. Sources say the indictment on April 20th of Levashov in the US district court in Connecticut (where an FBI counterintelligence division is based) represents the first concrete move in court that openly leads towards the impeachment of Donald Trump and the prosecution of dozens of members of his team – because this hacker, the sources suggest, was compensated by Team Trump and the FSB jointly, and...

<p>Washington (CNN) — Zac Petkanas thought he was done with politics after the 2016 election. He was ready to move into the private sector -- or maybe chase a dream job in the art world.</p> <p>Then his boss, Hillary Clinton, lost.</p>

Organised groups that used to steal manhole covers from streets or pipes and other metal from construction sites have started to steal wood in some Czech regions after the introduction of stricter rules for buying out scrap metals, weekly Tyden writes in its issue out on Monday. The "tree thieves" are not only individuals who use the wood themselves for heating, but also gangs that sell the wood to others. In 2015, the Environment Ministry banned scrapyard operators to pay for metals in cash. Moreover, the prices of metals have dropped considerably due to their surplus in Europe. As a...

(Stephen Chikhani and Nadia Lockyer made sex tape; cuckholded treasurer Bill Locker poses with his wife) California state Treasurer Bill Lockyer's differences with his estranged wife, former Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer, might not be so irreconcilable after all. The 71-year-old mainstay of state Democratic politics this week withdrew divorce papers he had filed last July against his 41-year-old wife, whose methamphetamine addiction and extramarital affair ended her political career and could have stained his. "He and Nadia have agreed to try and work things out, to try and reconcile," said Tom Dresslar, Bill Lockyer's spokesman. "He's proud of...

A South African model who played Barack Obama's mother in a film about the U.S. President's early years in Indonesia has been arrested for drug possession. Cara Lachelle has been charged with possession of methamphetamine following a raid on her Jakarta apartment. Miss Lachelle, 27, starred as Obama's mother Ann Dunham in the film Obama The Menteng Kid, also known as Little Obama, co-directed by John Rantau and Damien Dematra. The film, which was released last year, shows Mr Obama enjoying his early years with his mother and Indonesian stepfather in the Menteng neighbourhood of Jakarta from 1967 to 1971....

The weight of the world may be on his shoulders but there's not much around President Barack Obama's middle. The U.S. president has invoked the concern in America after walking out of a gym looking skinnier than ever. Clutching an energy drink, Mr Obama is pictured looking cheerful as he left the gym at Fort McNair in Washington

Richard Quest, a reporter for CNN International, was to be arraigned Friday on drug possession charges after police said he was found in New York City's Central Park with methamphetamine, the New York Times reports.

BREMERTON, WA An 18-year-old Bremerton woman told police last week that she may have mistakenly placed a bag of meth into a local ATM for deposit into her bank account, according to documents filed in Kitsap County Superior Court. An employee at Kitsap Credit Union told police that a bag of suspected methamphetamine showed up in a deposit envelope to be deposited in the woman's account at an ATM at the 100 block of Washington Avenue. When police contacted the woman, she said that she's used meth and may have accidentally put the bag into the deposit envelope when she...

A home burglar got a stern lecture and a 32-month prison sentence Wednesday from a judge who said the community is "sick and tired" of drug users stealing their hard-earned possessions. Lane County Circuit Judge Gregory Foote also reminded 20-year-old Michael Scott Wrighthouse that Oregon law allows residents to use deadly force when they encounter a burglar inside an occupied dwelling. "They have guns in their houses because of people like you. They are prepared to blow you away. You will go out of there in a body bag, and nobody will care," Foote told Wrighthouse. "Do I condone that...