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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.
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.
He was talking about why education matters in a representative democracy, but it's a safe bet that had he known about fake internet news, he'd have said the same thing - except maybe with more pointed words. Our representative democracy depends on ordinary people making sound judgments about politicians and policy.
Ben Mezrich recently appeared at a TEDxBeaconStreet event and spoke about UFOs and other unexplained phenomena. A video of his TED talk has been posted on YouTube, and it's worth a listen.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
Re: "OCC should fire bully professor" [Opinion, Dec. 18]: Shawn Steel seems to live in a "morally fluid, post-modern world" of his own as evidenced by his recent opinion piece in the Orange County Register. He offers a variety of characterizations and claims, which are, at best, distortions and double standards.
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.
The turbulent U.S. election, featuring Donald Trump's unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, was the overwhelming pick for the top news story of 2016, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors. The No.
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.
Now that the electoral vote is in, I would like to quote from a notorious American patriot: "At this point, what difference does it make?" Are you hearing footsteps, Coach Payton? There are jobs open in Jacksonville and Los Angeles. Better dust off your resumA .
The first explosion was detonated in June with Brexit with voters doing what was considered the unthinkable, turning their backs on Europe. The vote told us more than anything else how divided Britain is and how the political elite misread their constituents.
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.
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.
Throughout the United States, presidential electors cast their ballots Monday. Fewer than a handful of them broke faith with their states' electorates by not voting as the Nov. 8 results in their states indicated they should.
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.