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President Barack Obama suggested strongly on Friday that Russia's Vladimir Putin knew about the email hackings that roiled the U.S. presidential race, and he urged his successor, Republican Donald Trump, to back a bipartisan investigation into the matter. "Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin," Obama said in his year-end news conference.
Four female "firsts" will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton on behalf of New Hampshire when the Electoral College officially chooses the next president Monday. Each was the first woman elected to a different prominent state office.
Americans have always thought of themselves as a practical, commonsensical people, a nation of Thomas Edisons and Henry Fords. In reality, we've always been a nation of easy marks.
President-elect Donald Trump, in the latest stop of his victory lap, told a military veteran-laden crowd in Florida that while he would build up the country's armed forces, he would use them sparingly as commander-in-chief. "For too long, we've moving from one reckless intervention to another, to countries you've never heard of before," Trump said at a rally Friday night in Orlando.
Corporate TV news anchors including MSNBC's Chris Hayes are reporting as fact-with fuming indignation-that Russia not only sought to influence the U.S. election but to throw the vote to Donald Trump. The main accusation is that the DNC and Podesta emails leaked through WikiLeaks were provided by state-backed Russian hackers .
In this Dec. 13, 2016, photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center in West Allis, Wis. Members of the Electoral College vote on December 19th to select the next president of the United States.
Jonathan Zayas snuggles with his 1-year-old son Nathaniel as he is greeted by his wife, Mabell, on Friday at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field after his return home to Arkansas for the holidays. He had been working in Florida.
In this April 2016 photo provided by the law office of Lipsig, Shapey, Manus & Moverman P.C., Marc Eli Freund stands next to his client Katrina Williams at the law firm's offices in New York, as she recovers from injuries she said says she got from an exploding e-cigarette. MINEOLA, N.Y. -- Katrina Williams wanted a safer alternative to smoking, and e-cigarettes seemed to be the answer until the day one exploded in her pocket as she drove home from a beauty salon.
Former CIA head and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta recently said that if President Elect Trump refuses intelligence briefings and something bad happens, he would be responsible. These are ominous words.
President Barack Obama has put Russia's Vladimir Putin on notice that the U.S. could use offensive cyber muscle to retaliate for interference in the U.S. presidential election, his strongest suggestion to date that Putin had been well aware of campaign email hacking. Caught in the middle of a post-election controversy over Russian hacking, Obama strongly defended his administration's response, including his refusal before the voting to ascribe motive to the meddling or to discuss now what effect it might have had.
After spending the last two years covering all the twists and turns of the 2016 presidential campaign, I thought it would be a good idea to take a breather and go on a nice vacation to some remote part of the Earth. I was thinking about a tropical destination where my cellphone wouldn't work and there wasn't any wifi or cable news.
ORLANDO, Fla. - President-elect Donald Trump tried to tamp down supporters calling to "lock up" Hillary Clinton by telling them while they were "vicious" before the election, "now you're laid back, you're cool, you're mellow."
President Barack Obama put Russia's Vladimir Putin on notice Friday that the U.S. could use its offensive cybermuscle to retaliate for interference in the U.S. presidential election, his strongest suggestion to date that Putin had been well aware of the email hacking during the campaign. Caught in the middle of a post-election controversy over Russian hacking, Obama strongly defended his administration's response, including his refusal before the voting to ascribe motive to the meddling or to discuss now what effect it might have had.
President Obama Friday said he is deeply frustrated by "hyper-partisan" attitudes that have left some Republicans more trusting of Moscow than Washington, calling such attitudes a greater danger to America's national security than Russian hacking of U.S. elections. Obama reiterated his contention that "the Russians were responsible for hacking" the Democratic National Committee, starting in mid-2015, and that the U.S. will retaliate against Moscow for the meddling.
During a long and rambling press conference , President Obama today blamed talk radio and other "partisan news venues" for the impact that "Russian propaganda" allegedly had on our presidential election. Trying to sound presidential , Obama argued that the real threat to America isn't Russia, but rather not being true to our own values - in other words, "los[ing] track of who we are."
Earlier this month, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski claimed that during the election season, Hillary Clinton 's team had tried to have her removed from the air. It seemed really shocking - and, to some, dubious - at the time, but to The Young Turks ' Cenk Uygur , it was nothing new.
House intel committee chair: if top spies won't come to us, we'll vist them Chairman Devin Nunes said panel members will visit the CIA, FBI, and NSA next month. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2hXOHpp This Aug. 14, 2008, file photo shows a man crossing the CIA logo in the lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.
Kellyanne Conway gave an interview on America's Newsroom today, where she blamed President Obama and his staffers for generating friction between them and President-Elect Donald Trump . As he addressed the news from the CIA during a recent briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that Trump knew that Russia was trying to help him throughout the election, and the mogul went along with it out of self-interest.
Conservative pundits and publications are charging that most of the third-party organizations recruited this week to filter fake news stories from Facebook have a track record of liberal bias. Snopes, ABC News, Politifact and FactCheck.org all "have records of left-wing partisanship - particularly throughout the 2016 election," Breitbart News reported Thursday .