MOSCOW (AP) Moscow claims that a Russian woman arrested in the United States on charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Russia is being mistreated in jail.Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters Friday that Maria...

WASHINGTON (AP) A 29-year-old gun-rights activist suspected of being a covert Russian agent was likely in contact with Kremlin operatives while living in the United States, prosecutors said Wednesday, accusing her of using sex and deception to forge influ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors say they have "resolved" a case against a woman accused of being a secret agent for the Russian government, a sign that she likely has taken a plea deal. The information was included in a court...

Russia's Foreign Minister has held a telephone call with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in which he complained about the Americans' arrest of a Russian woman on allegations of being a covert agent.U.S. prosecutors have accused Maria Butina of...

MOSCOW (AP) Russian Embassy officials were to meet Thursday with a Siberian gun rights activist jailed in Washington on charges of spying on the United States, as Moscow blasted the arrest as anti-Russian hysteria.The embassy said in a Facebook...

WASHINGTON (AP) Federal authorities have arrested a Russian woman accused of conspiring to infiltrate American political organizations, including a gun-rights group, at the direction of a senior Kremlin official.That's according to court papers unsealed M

A Russian gun-rights activist will be sentenced next month after admitting she was a secret agent for the Kremlin who tried to infiltrate conservative U. S. political groups as Donald Trump rose to power. Maria Butina appeared briefly Thursday in...

WASHINGTON (AP) A 29-year-old gun-rights activist served as a covert Russian agent while living in Washington, gathering intelligence on American officials and political organizations and working to establish back-channel lines of communications for the K