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When Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for national security adviser, was working at the highest levels of the military and intelligence field, he had a reputation as a brilliant tactician.
US President-elect Donald Trump has rejected the CIA's reported conclusion that Russia intervened to help him win the election, saying the idea is "ridiculous." In an interview with Fox News yesterday, Trump said: "I think it's just another excuse.
Recently a North Carolina man named Edgar M. Welch read that a Washington D.C. pizza restaurant was harbouring children as sex slaves as part of a child-abuse ring led by U.S. politicians John Podesta and Hillary Clinton. Enraged, the 28-year-old father of two drove to the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria to investigate the alleged child-sex conspiracy theory for himself.
Dr. Jen Gunter was listening to the third and final debate between Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, when a comment by Trump made her livid: “In the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother.” “There is no such thing as a ninth month abortion - I'm a doctor who trained in late term abortions #debate2016,” she tweeted to her 34,200 followers. “Every single ob/gyn, every single woman's health-care provider should be standing up for facts.
Reince Priebus continued to push back against reports on Russian hacking on ABC's This Week this morning, arguing that talk of potential interference can't brush aside the mistakes Hillary Clinton made on the campaign trail. "The Russians didn't tell Hillary Clinton to ignore Wisconsin and Michigan, okay? She lost the election because her ideas were bad, she didn't fit the electorate, she ignored states that she shouldn't have, and Donald Trump was the change agent."
A bipartisan quartet of high-profile senators said Sunday that "recent reports of Russian interference in our election should alarm every American." The group - two Republicans and two Democrats - called for an investigation into American intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russian hacking was intended to help President-elect Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.
Vice President Joe Biden wants a say in the direction of the Democratic Party as it picks up the pieces from a nightmare electoral loss this year - and isn't willing to fully rule out a bid for the presidency if he thinks issues of economic fairness aren't being voiced. "Four years is a lifetime in American politics," he told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview on "State of the Union."
In a secure meeting room under the Capitol last week, lawmakers held in their hands a classified letter written by colleagues in the Senate summing up a secret, new CIA assessment of Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election. Sitting before the House Intelligence Committee was a senior FBI counterintelligence official.
After a voter recount was launched and halted by a federal judge on Wednesday, state officials are now admitting that most of the voting machines in Detroit were broken on Election Day, reports the International Business Times . According to officials, over 80 machines were deemed faulty on November 8 which may have caused electronic vote tallies to be off in over half of the precincts in Detroit as well as one-third of the precincts in Wayne County.
Grief is the emotion that defines the last five weeks for some of us. Watching the US Presidential election results threw thousands into a depression - across the board because of what it said about how Americans really felt about issues that were thought to be history, but for many of us, because Hillary Clinton came so very close to shattering the last glass ceiling in her country's political system.
Prince George was in his pyjamas when he met Barack Obama in one of the more uplifting moments of a turbulent 2016 With Brexit dividing the nation, an American election result that shocked the world, and showbiz bidding farewell to a host of stars, 2016 has been a dramatic and turbulent year. It has seen political earthquakes, the murder of an MP, dozens killed in terror attacks, a high number of celebrity deaths, and was so eventful it will surely go down in history as one of the most significant and memorable years of modern times.
President-elect Donald Trump greets Army Cadets before the Army-Navy NCAA college football game in Baltimore on Saturday. Army won, 21-17, snapping a 14-year losing streak.
"Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony." A month after Election Day, and we're past parody and into Kakfa, who wrote that one-sentence story, as the President-elect moonlights as an executive producer of "Celebrity Apprentice."
Trump has had precious few endorsements from the entertainment industry but a report in The New York Daily News suggests that Brooks is in talks to perform at the the new president's swearing in ceremony on January 20. On Friday the singer's publicist Nancy Seltzer told Reuters: "Garth has performed for the five living presidents.... While rumor has it that he has been asked to perform for President-elect Trump, he has not been able to commit yet." Brooks did not publicly endorse either candidate in the recent US election.
GSV Capital Chief Executive Michael Moe is having the last laugh as a Silicon Valley insider who dared not vote for Hillary Clinton. Call it a real belly laugh for this influential tech investor, who has emerged unbowed - and predicts President-elect Donald Trump may very well pull this economy out of the doldrums with opportunities galore for investors.
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may have lost the race for Arkansas electoral votes, but she won the race for Arkansas pocketbooks, according to postelection campaign filings with the Federal Election Commission.
Ignorance does not lead to bliss, as the content of unhappy communiquA s raining down on Louisiana's presidential electors proves. Since Nov. 8, Louisiana's Republican electors collectively have received more than 100,000 messages variously suggesting, imploring or demanding that each of the eight pledged to Republican President-elect Donald Trump not vote for him when the Electoral College "meets" on Dec. 19. On that date, in state capitals and the District of Columbia, electors will congregate to cast their ballots; in winner-take-all Louisiana, the Republican ticket received 58 percent of the vote.
As one of his last acts in office, President Barack Obama has ordered a "full review" of supposed cyber attacks on the 2016 election, despite the fact that there is no proof that any occurred. Obama has ordered the nation's intelligence agencies to conduct this review and report back to him before he leaves office on January 20. "The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process and to capture lessons learned from that and to report to a range of stakeholders, to include the Congress," Obama's homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco, said at an event on Friday.
Speaking to supporters, Kennedy said "Washington insiders" have taken the country in the wrong direction. But he added: "That's about to change, folks."