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US intel report blames Saudi crown prince for murder of Jamal Khashoggi
February 26, 2021 | 1:47pmSaudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved the murder of Virginia-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a newly-released U.S. intelligence report states. The Biden administration's release of the Feb. 11 report, prepared...
Biden speaks with Saudi king ahead of Khashoggi report going public
February 25, 2021 | 6:02pmPresident Biden on Thursday spoke with Saudi Arabian King Salman ahead of the release of a redacted report that implicates his son, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, in the murder...
US report on Jamal Khashoggi's death expected to single out Saudi crown prince
February 25, 2021 | 11:20amThe Biden administration is poised to release a declassified version of an intelligence report that concludes that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi,...
Saudi dissident sues after report outs him as influential opponent of regime
February 9, 2021 | 4:54pmA Saudi dissident who was friends with Jamal Khashoggi has sued consulting firm McKinsey & Company for its 2016 report outing him and two others as the most influential Twitter...
Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée wants Biden to release CIA report to uncover 'truth'
December 18, 2020 | 2:38pmThe fiancée of former Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is calling on President-elect Joe Biden to make good on a campaign promise to get accountability in the Saudi dissident’s 2018...
Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée sues Saudi crown prince in US court over his murder
October 20, 2020 | 4:44pmThe fiancée of slain Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi has filed a federal lawsuit in the hopes of holding Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman accountable for her loved one's brutal...
Bailouts favor blue states and other commentary
September 29, 2020 | 5:43pmFrom the right: Bailouts Favor Blue States Federal figures show that March’s $2.2 trillion Cares Act “disproportionately benefited blue states that imposed stricter coronavirus lockdowns and have been slower to...
Jamal Khashoggi's killers sentenced to lengthy prison terms
September 7, 2020 | 12:13pmEight Saudi nationals were sentenced to prison Monday for their roles in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The final verdicts were delivered in Riyadh Criminal Court against...
Ex-Saudi intelligence official claims MBS tried to assassinate him
August 6, 2020 | 6:43pmSaad Aljabri made the allegations in a federal lawsuit filed in Washington Thursday, charging that "there is virtually no one that Defendant bin Salman wants dead" more than him.
Turkey kicks off Jamal Khashoggi murder trial without Saudi suspects
July 3, 2020 | 10:30amTwenty Saudi nationals went on trial in Turkey for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Friday even though they weren't in court to face the charges. The "in absentia"...
Jamal Khashoggi's killers spared from execution after journalist's sons forgive them
May 22, 2020 | 4:57amDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The family of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi announced Friday they have forgiven his Saudi killers, giving legal reprieve to the five government agents...
Turkey charges 20 Saudis over murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
March 25, 2020 | 9:43amTurkish prosecutors have charged two former top aides of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and 18 other Saudis over the 2018 murder of journalist and Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi,...
Saudi prince MBS sent Jeff Bezos eerie messages following hack: report
January 22, 2020 | 4:30pmThe Jeff Bezos phone-hacking saga just got creepier. Fresh evidence surfaced on Wednesday that points to Saudi Arabia as the possible culprit in last year’s leaks of crotch shots of...
Khashoggi's fiancee blasts Saudi court's verdict
December 23, 2019 | 2:04pmJamal Khashoggi’s fiancee on Monday slammed a Saudi court verdict that saw five of 11 people sentenced to death in the murder of the Washington Post columnist, calling the outcome...
Saudi Arabia sentences five to death for Jamal Khashoggi killing
December 23, 2019 | 5:03amA court in Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death for the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul...
Influencers face backlash over Saudi-based MDL Beast music festival
December 23, 2019 | 2:43am“Cashing big fat checks in exchange for #content creation (aka propaganda) to rehabilitate the image of Saudi Arabia," Fashion industry watchdog Diet Prada wrote on Instagram.
Uber CEO ripped for calling Khashoggi murder a 'mistake'
November 11, 2019 | 1:33pmUber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi is under fire for saying that the murder and bonesaw dismemberment of Washington Post opinion writer Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi government was a “mistake.”...
Saudi Arabia is using Aquaman to try and revitalize its image
October 12, 2019 | 6:56pmJason Momoa flew into Riyadh Saturday night along with Jackie Chan and Jean Claude van Damme — the first time Hollywood A-listers have visited the country since Jamal Khashoggi’s savage...
Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée pens tribute one year after his murder
October 2, 2019 | 5:52pmThe fiancée of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi wrote a heartbreaking op-ed Wednesday for the first anniversary of his murder — calling it a "blow to everyone fighting for democracy" in...
UN: Saudi official should be tried for death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
October 2, 2019 | 4:13pmISTANBUL - Supporters of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi called for justice a year after his death and a U.N. investigator said Saud al-Qahtani, a key adviser to the kingdom’s...