Obama says he’s not ‘hiding the ball’ on Russia

SEOUL, South Korea — Speak­ing to the micro­phones inten­tion­ally this time, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama on Tues­day assured he had no hid­den agenda with Rus­sia for a sec­ond term, seek­ing to con­tain a con­tro­ver­sial gaffe that bounded all the way to the cam­paign trail at home and back again.