FBI director: Public should be aware agenda-driven fake news – Fri, 14 Apr 2017 PST

FBI Director James Comey said Americans should be aware of foreign efforts to undermine confidence in U.S. elections and mindful of the possibility that what they're reading might be part of an organized disinformation campaign. U.S. adversaries, including Russia last year, have "used all kinds of vectors to try and influence and undermine our own faith in our democratic processes" and have relied on increasingly sophisticated tactics, the FBI director warned.

US senators say food aid constraints delay help amid famine

As President Donald Trump seeks to cut foreign aid under the slogan of "America First," two U.S. senators are proposing making American food assistance more efficient after meeting with victims of South Sudan's famine and civil war. Following a visit to the world's largest refugee settlement in northern Uganda with the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware told The Associated Press on Saturday that the U.S. "can deliver more food aid at less cost" through foreign food aid reform.

The bull and the girl

Popular Vote Loser Donald Trump just released his first budget,and it is filled with debilitating cuts to social services and... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... A good bit back, I wrote a piece about authors who loathed adaptations of their work . For example, Stanley Kubrick managed to make two films which are considered among some of the best he ever directed, which also pissed off the authors of the source material something awful.

Trump’s CIA Director Just Called WikiLeaks a “Hostile Intelligence Service”

Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo on Thursday denounced WikiLeaks as a "non-state hostile intelligence service," and he singled out Russia as one of the anti-secrecy organization's top collaborators. Pompeo is the latest top official in the Trump administration to note that Russia hacked into the emails of Democratic staffers with the intention of influencing the 2016 presidential election.

FBI director: Public should know of agenda-driven fake news

FBI Director James Comey said Americans should be aware of foreign efforts to undermine confidence in U.S. elections and mindful of the possibility that what they're reading might be part of an organized disinformation campaign. U.S. adversaries, including Russia last year, have "used all kinds of vectors to try and influence and undermine our own faith in our democratic processes" and have relied on increasingly sophisticated tactics, the FBI director warned.

Divers swim with massive whale shark in West Palm Beach

A group of divers was treated to "an encounter of a lifetime" when a massive whale shark visited them during a dive at "the trench" in Palm Beach County on April 9, 2017. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-FL, held a congressional field hearing on climate change near President Donald Trump's Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Largo on April 10, 2017.

Ap Fact Check: Trump forgets tense time in Us-Russia history

In a news conference and a pair of interviews, President Donald Trump gave skewed accounts of U.S. relations over time with Russia, auto jobs and health care under his watch. TRUMP: "We may be at an all-time low in terms of relationship with Russia."

Trump gives states power to cut off Planne…

President Trump signed a bill Thursday freeing states to withhold federal family planning grant money from Planned Parenthood, marking the first major pro-life legislation to be signed into law in more than a decade. The bill unravels an Obama-era regulation that insisted states couldn't refuse to spend family planning money with Planned Parenthood or any other organization that performs abortions.

Senator McCaskill’s town hall tour, Hillary Clinton’s trying to convince you she’s okay, and more.

Senator McCaskill: Senator McCaskill is on a town hall tour, she'll be swinging thru Springfield tomorrow morning. She's touting that she's visiting counties that voted for Trump, so she's not afraid of opposition... but the thing is every county in Missouri voted for Trump except for three .

Editorial: Civil rights retreat

When the U.S. Senate was considering whether then-Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama should lead the Justice Department, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., was one of the most vocal members to stand in opposition to him. Booker's chief concern: Sessions' abysmal record concerning basic civil rights, and in particular where those rights concern minorities.

Ap Fact Check: Steve who? Trump shortchanges a relationship

In a pair of interviews, President Donald Trump gave a skewed account of auto jobs and health care under his watch and flatly contradicted himself on how long he's known his right-hand strategist, Steve Bannon. "Many years," Trump said of their relationship back in August, when he made Bannon his campaign chief.