Jeanne Shaheen

Turkey may be expelled from the US-led F-35 program if the country's government completes the acquisition of a Russian anti-aircraft system, according to an unclassified summary of a Pentagon report sent to Congress, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.

Two senior members of the United States' Senate, Lindsey Graham and Jeanne Shaheen, have paid a previously undisclosed trip to the Turkish capital to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a direct appeal for the release of U.S. national Pastor Andrew Brunson who has been in prison for more than 20 months on terror charges.

US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) claims RT and Sputnik are "designed to undermine our democracy" and even compared them to Nazi propaganda while promoting her bill, a reaction to alleged Russian hacking of the 2016 election.