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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, implicated in the journalist’s potential murder, could blunt criticism using the most sprawling foreign influence campaign in the U.S. today.

A new documentary exposes how and why the Pentagon has let this happen...

The alleged killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi is putting pressure on Saudi Arabia’s formidable lobbying corps in Washington, with at least one firm dropping its representation of the country and others warily monitoring the crisis.

Senate Armed Services Committee members Sen. James Inhofe (right, center), R-Okla., and then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., are pictured in 2015 on Capitol Hill. AP file

Idrees Kahloon and Ben Freeman on the swampy business of lobbying for foreign governments

Jessica T. Mathews’s “Singapore Sham” [NYR, August 16] correctly notes North Korea’s failure to halt plutonium production as part of the 1994 Agreed Framework, but fails to mention US violations. The Clinton administration failed to get licensing approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for building two light-water reactors to compensate for North Korea’s loss of nuclear power; the Bush administration failed to supply North Korea with 500,000 tons of heavy fuel on an annual basis...

President Donald Trump is reluctant to take punitive measures against Saudi Arabia if it's found to be responsible for Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance. Despite pressure from Senators from both parties, he's opposed to halting a multibillion-dollar arms deal with Riyadh.

The furor over Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi shows the limits of the country’s efforts to win over Americans, according to one expert.

As Washington wrestled this week with the disappearance and possible murder of the Saudi Arabian journalist-in-exile Jamal Khashoggi, South Carolina GOP Senator Lindsay Graham said enough is enough...

Turkish accusations that Riyadh was involved in Jamal Khashoggi’s likely killing have undermined the kingdom’s U.S. public relations strategy

William Hartung joins the show to give his views on President Trump’s proposed Space Force. He explains that American satellites are in fact vulnerable to attack by foreign powers, but that a space force is a highly impracticable approach to protecting them, and one that is more likely to provoke attack than to prevent it...

Don't pretend to be shocked about foreign collusion---it's happening in Washington everyday