Trump administration declines to impose new sanctions on Russia hours after the Kremlin accused the US of meddling in its election

Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool Photo via AP The Trump administration indicated on Monday that it would not seek to impose new sanctions against Russian operatives for the country's meddling in the 2016 US election. President Donald Trump signed into law in August a bill designed to curb billions of dollars in Russian defense sales. The US State Department says the effects of that law are "beginning to become apparent," and thus new sanctions against the Kremlin "will not need to be imposed." Political ...