Special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians for meddling in the 2016 US elections has led Democrats to revisit a theory of how disinformation could have flipped the result from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, by changing fewer than 80,000 votes across three states.
Americans frustrated with president Donald Trump’s golfing habits can take solace: Their leader isn’t as elusive as the president of Cameroon.
Following new indictments detailing Russian propaganda operations during US elections in 2016, president Donald Trump brandished a tweet from a Facebook executive to back up his claims that he didn’t collude with the Russians or win because of their actions.
The FBI failed to follow up (paywall) on disturbing tips about Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz, in a lapse that could have consequences far beyond this week’s lethal school attack.
Russian trolls used Paypal to sow chaos in the 2016 US election, according to special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment today of 13 Russian nationals.
One of the overarching questions about Russia’s online campaign to destabilize the US election is just how effective those social media efforts really were.
Backpage.com is the world’s second-biggest classified advertising website. It is also the world’s “top online brothel” and a hotbed of human trafficking, according to US law enforcement.
Broward County School District Superintendent Robert Runcie said yesterday that they had no “warnings” or “signs” that former student Nikolas Cruz would kill 17 people at his old school. But Cruz shared at least one trait with most mass killers in modern America: He abused women.
President Donald Trump’s longtime attorney Michael Cohen released a statement last night about a notorious $130,000 payment he made in 2016 to former porn actor Stephanie Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels.
Most people running for office would think the easiest votes they can win are those of the people who brought them into the world.
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In a video released today, leading Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny alleged that a former Trump campaign aide “transmitted” information to the Kremlin. The conduit: Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, who is known to be part of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.
The Senate has finally agreed on a two-year budget deal to fund the US government. It has put aside concerns (paywall) about the deficit to please both sides, with an $80-billion bump in defense spending for Republicans and a $63-billion hike on non-defense matters for Democrats.
US senator Sheldon Whitehouse didn’t hold back when talking about America’s role as laundering the world’s dirty money on Tuesday, Feb 6. “Our European partners are doing their part to combat crime facilitated by shell corporations. If we don’t soon follow suit, I fear we will risk losing our place as that city on a hill and beacon of justice,” he said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
The day after Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that “the rank and file of the FBI had lost confidence in their director.” Trump himself later said the FBI had been in “turmoil” and that Comey was a “showboat” and a “grandstander.”
President Donald Trump and his supporters have often indulged conspiracy theories that the FBI applied for a warrant to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page, in order to spy on the campaign itself.
Does a memo released today criticizing the FBI indeed show “serious violations of the public trust,” as its champion, representative Devin Nunes claims? Or is it a pretext for president Donald Trump to upturn the FBI’s top leadership, and ultimately block the agency’s investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia?
With president Donald Trump’s approval, the House has released a memo that alleges anti-Trump bias at the top of the FBI and Justice department, setting the stage for a dramatic face-off between law enforcement and the executive branch.
With president Donald Trump’s approval, the House has released a memo that alleges anti-Trump bias in the FBI and Justice department. It sets the stage for a dramatic face-off between law enforcement and the executive branch.
Update: The “Nunes Memo” was declassified on Friday (Feb. 2) afternoon.
Moscow’s upper echelons spent months consumed with worry about a sanctions list that would be published by the US Treasury at the end of January. Now they’re laughing.
Donald Trump has denied he tried to fire (paywall) special counsel Robert Mueller in June last year. But the reports have given extra ballast to accusations of obstruction of justice over the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe.
Russian bots’ support for the Trump agenda is now a fixture of US politics. In January alone, internet bots have opposed Trump critic Mitt Romney’s decision to run as senator for Utah, blamed the government shutdown on congressional Democrats, and are currently backing a campaign to publish a classified memo about bias in the Trump-Russia investigation.
The PR war over the US government shutdown has been a tale of rival hashtags. Democrats are desperately branding it the “Trump shutdown,” while Republicans are pushing the phrase “Schumer shutdown,” after Democrat Senate leader Chuck Schumer.
