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A scheduled private meeting between President Donald Trump's personal lawyer and Senate committee staff was abruptly canceled on Tuesday amid a dispute over a public statement he issued before the meeting. Senate intelligence committee leaders said they called off the closed-door staff meeting after Michael Cohen sent a public statement to the media just as the interview was about to start.
LAWMAKERS in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives blasted credit reporting firms in the wake of the Equifax hack revealed last week, scheduling hearings and calling for an overhaul of the sector and its cybersecurity requirements. Credit reporting agency Equifax suffered a cybersecurity breach in May that persisted until its discovery in July.
Russia's effort to influence U.S. voters through Facebook and other social media is a "red-hot" focus of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 election and possible links to President Donald Trump's associates, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Mueller's team of prosecutors and FBI agents is zeroing in on how Russia spread fake and damaging information through social media and are seeking additional evidence from companies like Facebook and Twitter about what happened on their networks, said one of the officials, who asked not to be identified discussing the ongoing investigation.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially said the company's social media platform was not a factor in the 2016 presidential election. Now his firm faces growing scrutiny after it revealed Russians bought $150,000 in electon-related Facebook ads in the two years beginning in June 2015.
Equifax said three top executives who sold nearly $2 million in company stock before a massive security breach was announced "had no knowledge" of the incident beforehand, according to an emailed statement from the credit-monitoring agency. The three executives who sold a small percentage of their Equifax shares on Tuesday, August 1, and Wednesday, August 2 " the statement said, hours after Equifax announced that 143 million people in the US were affected by the security breach that took place from mid-May to July 2017.
The senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says questions remain about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer in June 2016. The senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says questions remain about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer in June 2016.
Hundreds of fake Facebook accounts, probably run from Russia, spent about $100,000 on ads aimed at stirring up divisive issues such as gun control and race relations during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the social network said Wednesday. Although the number of ads is relatively small, the disclosure provides a more detailed peek into what investigators believe was a targeted effort by Russians to influence U.S. politics during the campaign, this time through social media.
President Donald Trump's oldest son is scheduled to make his first appearance on Capitol Hill Thursday as part of a Senate investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election and a meeting he had with Russians during his father's campaign last year. Donald Trump Jr. will be interviewed by staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is one of three congressional committees investigating the meddling and possible Russian links to his Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
This sign, posted outside Facebook headquarters in 2011, depicts the symbol with which users give their approval to each others' posts. Now Facebook has disclosed that a Russian company linked to a Kremlin intelligence operation bought sponsored ads targeting voters during the 2016 presidential campaign.
At a recent town hall here in Virginia's second most populous city, Rep. Robert C. Scott patiently took questions from more than two dozen residents waiting in line. The queue stretched to the very back of a high school auditorium with some standing for the entire portion of the two-hour public meeting.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, learns how the recently reopened Save-A-Lot grocery store on Piney Forest Road helps provide Danville residents with fresh, healthy food options.
Today's national media attention on immigration is primarily focusing on the deportation of undocumented immigrants and on the building of a border wall and who will pay for it. Less attention is focused on the positive work being achieved in local jurisdictions where immigrants are viewed as an asset, not a liability, and the work that they do to bring a civil tone to the immigration debate.
The highest-ranking Democrat on the US Senate intelligence committee said it was "extremely disturbing" if President Donald Trump was contemplating a pardon for aides that could be implicated in a probe on Russian meddling in last year's presidential election. WASHINGTON: The highest-ranking Democrat on the US Senate intelligence committee said it was "extremely disturbing" if President Donald Trump was contemplating a pardon for aides that could be implicated in a probe on Russian meddling in last year's presidential election.
To hear President Trump tell it, there's still a lot of uncertainty as to whether or not Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections. "Well, I think it was Russia, and I think it could have been other people in other countries.
Leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday they had reached an agreement that would allow them to see memos written by former FBI Director James Comey about his meetings with President Donald Trump. Comey's relationship with Trump has been central to ongoing investigations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and whether there was collusion between Trump associates and Moscow.
The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday the panel had asked election officials in 21 U.S. states to make public information about efforts to hack their systems during last year's election. Some lawmakers have expressed frustration that the information has been kept secret, saying it impedes the country's ability to prevent such hacks in the future.
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, whose panel is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, speaks with reporters after final votes for the week, at the Capitol in Washington Thursday. Warner responded to President Donald Trump's tweet that there are no recordings of his private conversations with fired FBI director James Comey, saying, 'This administration never ceases to amaze me.'
Senators on the Intelligence Committee pressed administration officials Wednesday to disclose more about the extent of Russian hacking attempts during last year's election after the government disclosed that 21 states had been targeted. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the committee's top Democrat, unsuccessfully pressed government officials to disclose which states were the victims.
Russian hackers targeted 21 U.S. state election systems in the 2016 presidential race and a small number were breached but there was no evidence any votes were manipulated, a Homeland Security Department official told Congress on Wednesday. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded the Kremlin orchestrated a wide-ranging influence operation that included email hacking and online propaganda to discredit Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump, a Republican, win the White House in November.