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HOLD FOR RELEASE Thursday 2, 1 a.m. EDT; Graphic shows when fake password-reset links were created, as part of a hacking attack closely aligned with the Russian government; 2c x 5 inches; 96 mm x 126 mm; FILE - In this Monday, May 29, 2017 photo released by the Sputnik news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an interview in Paris, France. On Thursday, June 1, 2017, Putin told reporters, Russian hackers might "wake up, read about something going on in interstate relations and, if they have patriotic leanings, they may try to add their contribution to the fight against those who speak badly about Russia."
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A Chinese real estate billionaire may be trying to hide behind U.S. immigration law to avoid prosecution for sex crimes. The case of Guo Wengui , a rogue Chinese billionaire seeking asylum, may prove a litmus test for the Trump administration's reform of immigration policy.
Tonight at 11/10c, Trevor and Hillary Clinton discuss the Steele dossier and Trump's ties to Russia. pic.twitter.com/dxJoAPTj8D Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Blumenthal: Trump-tied data firm reaching out to WikiLeaks 'significant' Tillerson eliminates key State Department sanctions office: report Intel Dem: What's in dossier more important than who paid for it MORE in a new interview argued the controversial and unverified dossier on President Trump that her campaign helped fund is not equivalent to the Trump campaign possibly colluding with Russia to meddle in the presidential election.
It has been nearly a decade since the first "Facebook election" set us on our current course of superficiality in political discourse. Today we are inured to candidates and voters alike taking just a dash of politics along with their pop culture, late-night hosts, and ESPN sports-cum-social justice.
Has there ever been a covert action that backfired as disastrously as Russia's attempt to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign? Granted, we know all the reasons Moscow is gloating: Donald Trump is president; America is divided and confused; Russia's propagandization of "fake news" is now repeated by people around the world as evidence that nothing is believable and all information is manipulated and mendacious. But against this cynical strategy there now stands a process embodied by special counsel Robert Mueller, which we will call, as a shorthand: "The Truth."
Virtually unheard of before Monday, when the FBI indicted two of President Trump's campaign staffers, George Papadopoulos is either the key to Russian collusion with the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election - or a lying "low level volunteer," as the president tweeted early Tuesday morning. But contrary to Trump's dismissive, never-heard-of-him shrug, Papadopoulos was also known within the campaign as Trump's foreign affairs adviser.
If you're looking for one race this fall to tell you what people make of the first year of the Trump presidency, your best bet is the Virginia governor's race where next week, voters will choose between Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie. The race has long looked like Northam's to lose.
When political consultant Cathy Allen and others learned the top four vote-getters in Seattle's mayoral primary race were women, she paused to think. "When was the last time Seattle had a woman mayor?" she wondered.
After 91 years Seattle will elect its second female m... . In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, Seattle mayoral candidate Jenny Durkan answers a question during a televised debate in Seattle.
In a court filing, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller says the precise value of Manafort's assets is hard to quantify. They say in November 2016 and January 2017, he noted assets to be worth approximately $25 million, but he has provided significantly higher amounts at other times.
The savage attack on American personnel in Benghazi, Libya five years ago is back in the news. President Donald Trump announced Monday that U.S. Special Forces had captured a man linked to the 2012 attack on the American mission in Benghazi.
President Donald Trump dismissed George Papadopoulos on Tuesday as a "liar" and a mere campaign volunteer, but newly unsealed court papers outline the former adviser's frequent contacts with senior officials and with foreign nationals who promised access to the highest levels of the Russian government. Records made public Monday in Papadopoulos' case list a gaggle of people who were in touch with him during the campaign but only with such identifiers as "Campaign Supervisor," ''Senior Policy Advisor" and "High-Ranking Campaign Official."
That document is of the utmost importance-it may have been cited to authorize wiretaps of Trump Tower-but the controversy over it has unfolded without the true affiliations of some key players being named. We're not talking about the Democratic National Committee, the Hillary Clinton campaign or their lawyers - all of whom are reportedly behind hiring the opposition research firm that delivered the dossier.
On October 24, The Washington Post reported that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee hired the opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Donald Trump. The firm then retained former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, who assembled a dubious dossier from his Russian contacts.
Trump officials deny encouraging George Papadopoulos to engage with Russia even though the former aide pleaded guilty to lying about his talks with a 'Kremlin-linked professor' A former foreign policy adviser to Trump, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying about communicating with individuals said to have ties to the Kremlin The former campaign aide was allegedly trying to arrange a meeting between then-GOP candidate Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin Papadopoulos told Special Counsel Robert Mueller that he was encouraged to cultivate ties to individuals said to be close to Putin The special counsel said Papadopoulos lied to FBI about when he learned from a professor that Russia claimed to have 'dirt' on Hillary Clinton 'My understanding is there wasn't encouragement,' White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters at her daily briefing on Tuesday Sam Clovis, a former ... (more)
Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez has filed a police report against a commission candidate, complaining that he exposed himself to her. Rosen Gonzalez told the Miami Herald late Tuesday she had gone to police to tell them Rafael Velasquez, a candidate for the Group 2 commission seat in the Beach, flashed his penis while the two were in a car after having dinner Oct. 18 "I want to get a restraining order," she said, referencing a Facebook post where Velasquez tagged her in a denial and tried to discredit her story.
Two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee introduced bipartisan legislation Tuesday aimed at safeguarding state election systems from foreign interference as their panel continues to probe Russia 's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. The multifaceted cybersecurity bill introduced by Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine would protect voting systems, registration data and ballots from being stolen or manipulated by malicious computer hackers by facilitating information sharing between federal and state election monitors while allocating government funds destined specifically for safeguarding election systems, among other measures, its sponsors said Tuesday.
A leading Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee says a confirmation hearing for one of President Donald Trump's nominees should be delayed in light of new twists in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Trump has nominated former campaign adviser Sam Clovis to serve as chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.