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Hillary Clinton campaign national press secretary Brian Fallon, left, ripped the media on Twitter after CNN reported Tuesday evening that U.S. intelligence officials briefed President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump on unconfirmed claims that Russia has attempted to compromise Trump. CNN reported Tuesday evening that U.S. intelligence officials last week briefed President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump on unconfirmed claims that Russia has attempted to compromise Trump.
On Tuesday, Ira Madison III, culture writer for MTV News, launched a multi-post rant on Twitter attacking Senator Jeff Sessions during his attorney general confirmation hearing with a racially-charged Tweet about the Alabama Republican's multi-racial granddaughter: " Sessions, sir, kindly return this Asian baby to the Toys 'R' Us you stole her from ." Madison added in a later post that the child was a "prop," because supposedly, " There is no reason for that child to be in his lap in a hearing other than to send an 'I'm not racist message' ."
His message came at the start of one of the busiest weeks of Donald Trump's transition to the White House. It's a week when he and his team are preparing eight Cabinet picks for confirmation hearings, finalizing appointments and gearing up for his first news conference as president-elect.
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday, calling Meryl Streep "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood" following her speech Sunday night at the Golden Globe awards. While "overrated" is an opinion, Streep, who took aim at Trump in her speech while accepting the Globes lifetime achievement award, holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations of any actor.
Donald Trump called Meryl Streep 'overrated' in a three-tweet Twitter rant against the respected actress after she criticized him during her acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes. President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday, calling Meryl Streep "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood'' following her speech at the Golden Globe awards While "overrated'' is an opinion, Streep, who took aim at Trump in her speech while accepting the Globes lifetime achievement award, holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations of any actor.
U.S. intelligence officials are convinced that Russia meddled in the presidential race. But that hasn't changed President-elect Donald Trump's call for warmer relations with Moscow.
"We've got some unique energy now, mostly because of the disaster that happened a couple of months ago," David Scholnick, cochair of the progressive advocacy group Philly 4 Change, told about 40 activists gathered last week in the South Street bar. The subject of President-elect Donald Trump's triumph - queasy to them - did not need to be spelled out here, as they discussed what liberal causes to work on this year.
Trump tweets his anger that Kellyanne Conway interview cut short The president-elect again lashed out at "dishonest media." Check out this story on eveningsun.com: http://usat.ly/2i7myiP President-elect Donald Trump lashed out on Twitter on Sunday against NBC's Meet the Press , saying the show edited out nine minutes of a 10-minute interview that host Chuck Todd did with Kellyanne Conway, Trump's top counselor.
WikiLeaks is disavowing a Twitter account associated with the secrets-leaking organization after a tweet was sent out about developing an online database for the personal information of many Twitter users. After experiencing social media backlash, WikiLeaks tweeted late Friday a note from its @WikiLeaks to say the other account, WikiLeaks Task Force, was not "authorized" to make any statements on behalf of the organization.
A day after U.S. intelligence officials said Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump, the president-elect renewed his call for better Washington-Moscow relations and suggested naysayers are "fools" or "stupid people." Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing.
As a candidate one of the ways Donald Trump shocked America was by locking horns nastily with anybody who got in his way. He once mocked a journalist with a disability.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox essentially told President-elect Donald Trump Friday to f--- off. Fox, a longtime critic of Trump's campaign promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, tweeted that Mexico will not pay "for that f----- wall."
Four people have been arrested in the US city of Chicago over a video live-streamed on Facebook, in which a bound and gagged man was assaulted. The man being assaulted has special needs, police say.
President-elect Donald Trump's reliance on Twitter to address complex issues - from trade policy with China to nuclear proliferation - is frightening. Occasionally, though, issues are simple enough to fit in a tweet, and that was the case with the House GOP proposal to gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics.
AP FACT CHECK: Taking a swipe at "Obamacare" on Twitter, President-elect Donald Trump correctly identified two of its most pressing problems _ a spike in premiums and high deductibles Vice President-elect Mike Pence leaves a closed-door meeting with the House Republican caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Pence promised repeal of President Obama's health care law now that the GOP is in charge of White House and Congress.
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. gavels in the members of the House of Representatives after administering the oath as the 115th Congress convenes on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017.
His inauguration less than three weeks away, President-elect Donald Trump is raising new doubts about the nation's intelligence community, tweeting fresh criticism at the same people who will help inform his most sensitive decisions once he takes office. Trump charged Tuesday on Twitter, without evidence, that the timing of an upcoming intelligence briefing on suspected Russian interference in the 2016 election had been delayed.
President-elect Donald Trump says Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should ask for federal help if he isn't able to bring down a homicide count that soared last year to 762 - the most killings in nearly two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined. Trump pointed to the spike in shooting deaths earlier this week in a posting on Twitter, writing: "If Mayor can't do it he must ask for federal help!" Despite Trump's tweet, the federal government has already been involved, albeit with mixed results, via the U.S. attorney's office, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies.
The new Congress opened with a stumble Tuesday after the Republican majority's plan for gutting an independent ethics office drew a firestorm of criticism - including tweets of displeasure from President-elect Donald Trump - that forced lawmakers to reverse course in a sign of battles to come. The messy debut of what was supposed to be a celebratory start on Capitol Hill foreshadowed roadblocks ahead as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan tries to lead his often willful GOP majority while maneuvering unexpected outbursts from the party's new leader in the White House .
For a legislator who frequently offers glimpses of her personal life on Twitter, the new year brought something entirely different to share: a wedding. Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez was married on Sunday to a former Republican member of the Assembly, Nathan Fletcher .