Ex-Rep. Jeffrey Fortenberry charged over illegal foreign donations “scheme”

Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., have filed new charges against former Nebraska Rep. Jeffrey Fortenberry, after an appeals court threw out his criminal conviction in a campaign finance case because the court said he had been tried in the wrong venue.  The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in December tossed out the former Republican congressman’s

Russia’s Saber-Rattling Prefaces Looming Debate on US Nuclear Weapons Policy, Modernization

Former Pentagon adviser says Kremlin has 10 times the tactical nukes its Western adversaries have and may be tempted ’to roll the dice’ in pressing advantage. News Analysis While it’s easy to dismiss Russia’s most recent threat to use tactical nuclear weapons, the circumstances and specificity—menacing British military installations “outside Ukraine”—are raising eyebrows, if not