Amid scrutiny, Eric Trump to stop raising money for charity

One of President-elect Donald Trump 's sons will stop directly raising money for his namesake foundation, saying he worries the donations could be perceived as buying access to his father. Eric Trump said Wednesday that it pained him to cease soliciting donations for his organization, which he says has raised more than $15 million for terminally ill children with cancer.

Russian hackers tracked Ukrainian artillery units using Android implant: report

A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U.S. presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday. The malware was able to retrieve communications and some locational data from infected devices, intelligence that would have likely been used to strike against the artillery in support of pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine, the report from cyber security firm CrowdStrike found.

A Lot Of These So-Called Post-Election Hate Crimes Are Turning Out To Be Hoaxes, Huh?

Well, if there's one area that vulnerable to the fake news epidemic, it's these alleged hate crimes that are occurring after President-elect Donald J. Trump's upset win over Hillary Clinton. First, we had the woman who said three men assaulted her on a New York City subway on December 2. Of course, liberals jumped on it.

George Washington on a the insidious wiles of foreign influencea

How seriously should we take Trump's singing the praises of Putin and calling on the Russians to find Hillary Clinton's missing emails? How concerned should we be that Trump appointed as his secretary of state an Exxon CEO who was not only involved in a $500 billion deal with Putin but was also given Russia's “Order of Friendship”? Perhaps the best response to Trump's Russian connection is to heed the words of George Washington.

Founder of pro-Clinton Pantsuit Nation defends book deal

The founder of a pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook site is defending her decision to write a book after attracting widespread criticism from fellow group members. Libby Chamberlain has a deal with Flatiron Books for a compilation based on postings on Pantsuit Nation, a private site on which members share personal stories about sexism and other kinds of intolerance.

Donald Trump calls Berlin truck assault ‘attack on humanity’

US President-elect Donald Trump has said the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was "an attack on humanity and it's got to be stopped". US President-elect Donald Trump has said the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was "an attack on humanity and it's got to be stopped".

Rogue Elector Uses Vote to Highlight Dakota Access Pipeline

A member of the Electoral College from Washington state went rogue Monday and voted for a Native American tribal leader from South Dakota over Hillary Clinton, who had won the state in the presidential election. By casting his vote for the tribal leader, the elector said he had hoped to shed light on the importance of protecting the environment and empowering indigenous people around the country.

The Latest: Gingrich says Trump dislcaims ‘drain the swamp’

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pa. Trump's closest advisers see Democrats' complaints that Moscow hacked their private ... A leader of Donald Trump's transition says the president-elect is no longer interested in his catch phrase "drain the swamp" of Washington.

National Enquirer morphs into propaganda rag for President-elect Trump

More than a month after the election, the news industry is still at a loss for how to cover Donald Trump as he transitions into power. Fact checks have proven ineffective, press conferences have virtually gone extinct, and Trump's supporters couldn't care in the slightest about what reporters are uncovering.

Eugene Robinson:Who in the Gop will stand up to Trump?

President-elect Donald Trump's victory tour was more than just an opportunity to strut and preen around the country like a peacock with a comb-over. It was a warning to Republican leaders in Congress that Trump intends to be in charge -- and that there will be consequences if the party establishment does not fall in line.

In NYCa s Russian enclaves, a big a nyeta to hacking talk

Clutching a cobbler's tool in his hand, Roman Gadayev defiantly lashed out against accusations that Russia meddled in the U.S. election to sway the vote to Donald Trump. "Simply impossible," said the Kazakhstan native who runs a shoe repair shop near the Brighton Beach boardwalk.

Pantsuit Nation members revolt after operator cashes in with book deal :0

Members of an underground pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook group are livid after the operator announced she would be cashing in on the page with a book deal. News that Pantsuit Nation founder Libby Chamberlain would be putting out a tome next May based on comments from the popular page - which has some 4 million members - prompted a flood of angry comments calling the Brooklin, Maine, woman a sellout.

FBI Sought Evidence Of Intrusions In Hillarya

The FBI was trying to get a look at thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails on disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner's computer partly to see if anyone had hacked in to steal classified information, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. Investigating possible hacking appeared to be a secondary rationale for the email search, which FBI Director James Comey launched in the waning days of the presidential election.