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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on tax policy with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, October 31, 2017. According to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll released this week, only 33 percent of Americans support President Trump's tax plan, while 50 percent oppose it.
New members of the Afghan Special forces march during their graduation ceremony at the Afghan Corp, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. More than three 3.7 million Afghans, about 11 percent of the population, now live in areas under the control or influence of the Taliban and other armed groups, a new report by the top U.S. watchdog in Afghanistan has found.
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Then-interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile confers with then-Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid . The former interim head of the Democratic Party just accused Hillary Clinton's campaign of "unethical" conduct that "compromised the party's integrity."
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientist nominee, Sam Clovis withdrew his name from consideration Wednesday amid revelations that he was among top officials on the Trump campaign who was aware of efforts by foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos to broker a relationship between the campaign and Russian officials. Court documents unsealed Monday revealed that Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in early October to making false statement to FBI investigators about his contacts with foreigners claiming to have high-level Russian connections.
President-elect Donald Trump is applauded by his children, from left, Eric, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. ahead of a news conference in Trump Tower in Manhattan on Jan. 11, 2017. On Wednesday, Rep. Adam B. Schiff , the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, released a list of Twitter accounts identified as being linked to Russians seeking to meddle in the 2016 election.
Recent revelations-including special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of Trump campaign officials as well as testimony from Facebook, Twitter, and Google -underscore the extent of the threat posed by Russian interference in the American political system. Every level of government should be doing its part to address this threat.
There is a popular and active school of futurism that regards human intelligence and machine intelligence as different realizations of the same thing. Because the hardware is different, computers are good at doing straightforward things rapidly, while brains are good at doing holistic tasks rapidly.
A county jail nurse in Oklahoma faces possible criminal charges for allegedly performing an exorcism on an inmate and delaying medical help for the woman. Jail employees reported that in the February incident Linda Herlong Jackson, 67, said, "I revoke you demons," as the female inmate thrashed about and screamed.
Around 3:25 pm Eastern time Tuesday, a truck drove into a pedestrian and bike path in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The New York Police Department confirmed "several fatalities" and "numerous people injured."
Early Monday, the very first charges were issued in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. Three former Trump campaign officials were indicted in the probe: Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, and two lesser-known Trump associates Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos.
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority is canceling its controversial $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings to restore the island's hurricane-ravaged electrical grid, officials announced Sunday. Ricardo Ramos, executive director of PREPA, said at a press conference he would honor Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rossell's Sunday morning request to terminate the business deal, which has raised questions from several lawmakers and government agencies.
A federal judge has suspended President Trump's executive order reinstating a ban on transgender military service. The preliminary injunction will prevent transgender people who are currently serving from losing their jobs, but does open the door allowing openly transgender people to enlist.
Workers seek to repair distribution lines damaged by Hurricane Maria in the Cantera community of San Juan, Puerto Rico. CREDIT: AP Photo/Carlos Giusti Puerto Rico's decision to cancel its contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings LLC, a small Montana-based company with ties to the Trump administration, has thrown the island's electricity restoration efforts into disarray.
President Donald Trump's White House and personal lawyers scrambled Saturday to learn where the knife might fall in the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, triggering a guessing game among aides after days of trying to turn attention away from allegations of collusion with Russia during the election. Attorneys involved in the case said their cellphones have been ringing nonstop as they connected with each other, and with reporters, trying to gather more concrete details after a CNN report Friday night that a federal grand jury had approved the first charges in the Russia investigation.
Fusion GPS is an opposition research firm run by ex-journalists, but how is it connected to the Trump dossier, Donald Trump Jr.'s Trump Tower meeting and the 2016 election? The Fact Checker's Glenn Kessler explains. As a service to readers bound to be confused by an increasingly tangled story, here's a brief guide to the latest developments in the tangled allegations involving Russia, President Trump and Hillary Clinton Background: The "dossier" is a collection of 17 memos concerning President Trump and Russia written by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, between June 20 and Dec. 13, 2016.
This Monday the Knesset reassembled for its winter session after a long vacation. On such occasions, the president of the state and the prime minister are invited to speak.