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To the millions of people who voted for Donald Trump because of his views on improving the economy, reducing the reach of the federal government and controlling immigration, or for the millions more who voted against Hillary Clinton and the perception that she was inadequate for the presidency, revelations about Russian "influence" in the 2016 ... (more)
White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. Earnest answered questions about Russian hacking, healthcare and other topics.
The United States will soon respond to Russia's attack via hacking on the 2016 presidential election, according to President Barack Obama. Speaking to National Public Radio, Obama said, "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing."
In this Dec. 12, 2016 file photo, Interior Secretary-designate, Rep. Ryan Zinke, right, R-Mont., arrives in Trump Tower in New York. As President-elect Donald Trump fills out his Cabinet, it's looking less like America's population and more like the world Trump has always orbited, filled with rich white men and delivering on Trump's promise to ignore political correctness.
The Obama White House knew about Russian hacking in the summer of 2015, but kept quiet about it because it thought Democrat Hillary Clinton would win anyway, and it did not want to risk a cyber war with our Cold War foe, NBC News reported. "They thought she was going to win, so they were willing to kick the can down the road," NBC quoted one government official familiar with the situation.
US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday again rejected the CIA's conclusion that Russia manipulated the US election, as the hacking scandal expanded into a hefty foreign policy challenge just five weeks before he takes office. Even as NBC News reported that US intelligence has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a direct hand in the hacking plot, Trump took to Twitter to dismiss the issue, which has been roiling since before he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton on November 8. "If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House waite [sic] so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?" he tweeted.
Left-wing Democratic leaders Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Democratic National Committee chair candidate Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., are seeking to rebuild a party that has been left in shambles by the Obama presidency. The Democrats have lost majorities in the House and Senate and been obliterated by the Republicans at the state and local level since Obama assumed office in 2009.
A US official familiar with the US intelligence assessment of the Russia election-related hacking said the understanding is that the operation was carried out with sophisticated hacking tools, the equivalent of those used by the US National Security Agency. The use of the advanced tools suggests Russian President Vladimir Putin was involved in the hacks, a person familiar with the matter said, adding that it was more than a US intelligence assumption at this point.
Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin told a Manhattan federal judge in a court filing Thursday that neither she nor Anthony Weiner ever received FBI search warrants for emails found on her estranged husband's computer - raising questions about whether FBI warrants for the emails were ever issued, and if so to whom. In the letter, Abedin's lawyer said she is unable to comment on a Los Angeles lawyer's request for FBI warrants tied to her emails, because "the government has never provided her with a copy of the warrant it reportedly obtained to search certain emails."
Washington, Dec 16 : The White House on Thursday clashed with President-elect Donald Trump's transition team over alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. [NK US] "It is just a fact that the Republican nominee for President was encouraging Russia to hack his opponent because he believed it would help his campaign," Xinhua news agency quoted White House spokesman Josh Earnest as saying during the daily briefing.
Well, here's another "people have said" update regarding Russia's allegedly hacking our election to help Trump. There's still a lot of rumor, speculation, and unsubstantiated reports about Russia's role in the 2016 election because no one has gone on the record.
Yeah, this Hamilton Electors effort is not going to work, and the Associated Press took a survey of 330 electors and found that a) there are more than enough of them that are voting for President-elect Donald J. Trump on December 19; and b) there's little interest to cause a constitutional crisis over this election. In short, as many have already known for quite some time, this Hail Mary effort to block Trump is going to go down in flames: Whether they like Trump or not, and some plainly don't, scores of the Republicans chosen to cast votes in the state-capital meetings told AP they feel bound by history, duty, party loyalty or the law to rubber-stamp their state's results and make him president.
Woman rally as part of a nationwide protest against US President-elect Donald Trump outside of Trump Tower in New York on December 12. / AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY Jordan Spiegel cried the night Donald Trump was elected president. The 14-year-old high school freshman from Walnut Creek not only looked forward to Hillary Clinton becoming the first female president, she despaired of the sexist, racist and xenophobic rhetoric that marked the celebrity mogul's campaign.
The Trump-Russia scandal continues to widen, with revelations that are making it increasingly clear that not only do we need a full investigation, but that investigation needs to be independent and bipartisan, and include public hearings. Some Republicans, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have suggested that the Senate Intelligence Committee can handle it.
The White House is sharply criticizing President-elect Donald Trump for his response to allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. election. White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Trump should stop attacking the U.S. intelligence community.
Only 55 California residents will directly cast votes for president, and many of them don't think they or anyone else should have that exclusive right. As the electoral college prepares to meet in state capitols around the country on Monday, many of California's electors say they'd prefer to reform or eliminate the body that formally elects U.S. presidents.
A Hillary Clinton supporter from Anchorage is suing Alaska's three members of the Electoral College, claiming their anticipated votes for President-elect Donald Trump next Monday will violate her constitutional rights. Janice Park's lawsuit will be heard Thursday in federal court in Anchorage.
Republican electors have been hounded to abandon Donald Trump, but they appear to be in no mood for an insurrection in the presidential campaign's last voting ritual. This most untraditional of elections is on course to produce a traditional outcome Monday - an Electoral College ticket to the White House for the president-elect.
President-elect Trump on Thursday lashed out at the White House and critics of his decision to cancel a press conference where he was to detail how he would separate his business from the presidency. Trump initially played media critic Thursday morning, ripping magazine Vanity Fair as having "really poor numbers" and being "way down, big trouble, dead!" The magazine published a negative review of a restaurant in Trump Tower on Wednesday and Trump sparred regularly with editor Graydon Carter when he covered Trump in New York.
On a snowy, bitterly cold day Saturday, candidates who are in the running to become the next Chairman of the Democratic National Committee rendezvoused in Columbus to discuss reforms the party needs if it hopes to become relevant and win elections, big and small, again in 2018 and beyond. The results of the Nov. 8 elections were devastating to Democrats, who lost the presidency and the U.S. Senate and the House at the national level and scads of state races across the land.