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When he entered No 10, Sir Keir Starmer staked his reputation on upholding international law. That commitment is now being put to the test after Britain’s closest ally stormed into a sovereign country and seized its leader, leaving the Prime Minister firmly between a rock and a hard place. Donald Trump’s capture of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president, and his wife Cilia Flores threatens to become a toxic disaster for Sir Keir, who is attempting to get his premiership back on track after a torrid year. Having worked hard to form a warm but fragile relationship with the erratic US...

Politico reports that James O’Keefe has been sued for an undercover video sting he released last year: O’Keefe and his organization posted some of the videos online last October, purporting to show efforts by Democrats to provoke violence at Donald Trump’s campaign rallies and events. The recordings led two Democratic operatives, Robert Creamer and Scott Foval, to leave their posts even as they decried O’Keefe’s tactics. In the new civil lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington Thursday, Creamer, his Strategic Consulting Group and a related firm called Democracy Partners accuse O’Keefe and several colleagues of conspiring to violate...

The FBI just carried out a raid on the Annapolis office of a Republican party fundraising firm called Strategic Campaign Group, leading to widespread questions about what connection the raid might have to the FBI’s ongoing investigation of the Donald Trump campaign. Palmer Report’s research team determined that the firm in question is in fact connected to Trump campaign advisers Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.