Jake Thomas is a Newsweek night reporter based in Portland, Oregon. His focus is U.S. national politics, crime and public health. He has won numerous awards while covering government, social services ...

The U.S. government has issued an advisory Thursday warning American citizens to leave Russia immediately and not to travel there under any circumstances, an advisory from the U.S. Department of State ...

In the basement of the Soviet embassy in Washington this week, sweating Russians worked furiously to bring some capitalist efficiency to their task: processing a flood of U.S. tourist visas for the ...