| | | Soon after Vladimir Putin is re-elected on Sunday, his thoughts will turn to the question that is likely to dominate his next term as Russia’s president: what will he do when it ends?
However, with his political mandate lasting until 2024 a more pressing deadline lies on the horizon: he has until midnight to explain to Britain how a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used to strike down a former Russian double agent who passed secrets to British intelligence.
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| Meanwhile across the pond, House Intelligence Committee Republicans said the panel had finished investigating Russia and the 2016 election, and found no collusion between Trump’s campaign and Moscow’s efforts to influence the vote. The investigation is one of three main congressional probes, and has been marred for months by partisan wrangling. | | |
| Trump said he had replaced U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo, and had tapped Gina Haspel to lead the CIA. | | |
| A makeshift memorial made up of 7,000 pairs of shoes will take shape on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol today, as gun control activists dramatize the number of children killed in the United States by gunfire since the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre. | | |
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