U.S. sanctions Russian officials over poisoning of opposition leader

The United States said Tuesday that it is imposing sanctions on Russian officials over the poisoning and jailing of the country's opposition leader Alexei Navalny, marking the first announcement of its kind under the administration of President Joe Biden.The move came as the U.S. intelligence community has assessed with "high confidence" that officers of Russia's Federal Security Service used a nerve agent known as Novichok to poison Navalny, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.The prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin lost consciousness on a flight to Moscow after dri…READ FULL ARTICLE