Scottish foes of Trump take to streets and skies

Demonstrators march in Edinburgh, Scotland, to protest President Trump during his visit to the country. Trump is spending the weekend out of the spotlight at his golf resort at Turnberry.

Trump tweets, hits links before high-stakes Putin meeting

Two days before a high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump played golf and tweeted Saturday from one of his namesake resorts, blaming his predecessor for Russian election meddling and lashing out at the free press from foreign soil. Aides had said Trump would spend the weekend preparing to meet Putin on Monday in Helsinki, but the tweets showed other topics were on his mind.

Top StoryTrump faults Obama for US response to Russian hacking

President Donald Trump on Saturday scolded the Obama administration for not responding aggressively enough to Russian hacking of Democratic targets in the 2016 U.S. election - cyberattacks underpinning the indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers. Trump's first response to special counsel Robert Mueller's initial charges against Russian government officials for interfering in American politics came in tweets the president posted while at his golf resort in Scotland, two days before a high-stakes summit in Finland with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Trump tweets, hits links during stay at Scottish golf resort

Two days before a high-stakes summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump spent part of Saturday playing golf and tweeting about his predecessor and a U.S.-based cable television network he accuses of covering him unfairly. "I have arrived in Scotland and will be at Trump Turnberry for two days of meetings, calls and hopefully, some golf - my primary form of exercise!" he tweeted early Saturday, referencing his seaside golf resort.

Tragedy as elderly man, 71, is killed as he tried to cross a busy Sydney motorway

Thai boys speak for the first time: Soccer team who feared death as they sat trapped in a cave for 17 days thank their rescuers and reveal they've already ordered their favorite meal - a KFC 'He wanted to go out like Bonnie and Clyde': Cops shoot dead 16-year-old armed and suicidal football star after his mother called 911 on him for locking her in a garage Was Russia listening? Hack of Democratic Party came right after Trump urged Moscow to 'find Hillary Clinton's 30,000 missing emails' John McCain calls on Trump to CANCEL summit in Helsinki 'unless he is prepared to hold Putin accountable for election tampering' after 12 Russian agents are charged in Mueller investigation Father of New York socialite who was found dead at the bottom of a 27-story trash chute believes his daughter was 'murdered' amid bitter divorce with her construction boss husband Frank Sinatra's first wife Nancy dies ... (more)

Russian hackers methodically targeted Clinton campaign, used standard phishing attacks

The previous week, Katenberg's hacking crew had been bombarding the Hillary Clinton campaign's email accounts with fake Google warnings, trying to get her Brooklyn-based staff to panic, enter their passwords and open their digital lives to Russia's intelligence services. But the going was tough.

Candidate Trump urged Russians to release Clinton emails

On a late July day in 2016, Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president, stood at a lectern in Florida, next to an American flag, and urged a U.S. adversary to become involved in the election campaign and find tens of thousands of emails wiped from the server of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. "Russia, if you're listening," he said at a news conference at one of his resorts, "I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."

Roger Stone: I’m ‘probably’ unnamed person mentioned in Robert Mueller indictment

Mueller's indictment, unveiled days before President Donald Trump is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin , asserts that the Russian suspects engaged in a far-reaching hacking scheme that targeted the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. The indictment also referenced a U.S. person who "was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump" and exchanging messages with the conspirators, who were posing as Guccifer 2.0. In an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo, Stone said that he's "probably" the person named in the filing.

Read the indictment: Russian government tied toa

Twelve Russian military intelligence officers hacked into the Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic Party and released tens of thousands of private communications in a sweeping conspiracy by the Krem Read the indictment: Russian government tied to election hacking Twelve Russian military intelligence officers hacked into the Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic Party and released tens of thousands of private communications in a sweeping conspiracy by the Krem Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: Twelve Russian intelligence officers were indicted by a grand jury for a hacking scheme targeting the 2016 US election.

White House Rejects Calls To Cancel Putin Summit After Russian Indictments

The White House is rejecting calls from leading members of Congress to cancel a U.S.-Russian presidential summit in the wake of indictments that for the first time charge the Russian government with directly interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The indictments of 12 Russian military intelligence officers on July 13 for allegedly hacking and releasing thousands of documents and e-mails that were damaging to U.S. President Donald Trump's Democratic opponent came a scant three days before Trump's scheduled summit with President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.

Indictment ties Russian government to election hacking

Twelve Russian military intelligence officers hacked into the Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic Party and released tens of thousands of private communications in a sweeping conspiracy by the Kremlin to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election, according to an indictment announced days before President Donald Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The indictment represents special counsel Robert Mueller's first charges against Russian government officials for interfering in American politics, an effort U.S. intelligence agencies say was aimed at helping the Trump campaign and harming his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Moscow now accused of US election meddling, in indictment

Twelve Russian military intelligence officers hacked into the Clinton presidential campaign and Democratic Party, releasing tens of thousands of stolen and politically damaging communications, in a sweeping conspiracy by the Kremlin to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election, according to a grand jury indictment announced days before President Donald Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The indictment stands as special counsel Robert Mueller's first allegation implicating the Russian government directly in criminal behaviour meant to sway the presidential election.

12 Russian intelligence officers indicted for hacking into DNC, Clinton campaign

Twelve Russian nationals were indicted for hacking into the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign in 2016, the Justice Department announced Friday. The 12 defendants, all Russian intelligence officers, "engaged in a sustained effort to hack into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the DNC and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton," special counsel Robert Mueller alleged in his indictment.

5 takeaways from the Russian election hacking indictment

FILE In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006, President Vladimir Putin, second right, and Russian President's special representative on questions of ecology and transport Sergei Ivanov, right, visit the Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate in Moscow, Russia. The Justice Department has announced charges against 12 Russian intelligence officers for hacking offenses during the 2016 presidential election, it was reported on Friday, July 13, 2018.

Russian indictments come days before Trump’s first summit with Putin Source: Cox Media Group

ELLESBOROUGH, England - The Friday indictment of a dozen Russian nationals for hacking into the Democratic National Committee landed days before President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding a stunning new dimension to a meeting already fraught with tension. Hours before Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the charges, Trump vowed to ask Putin "firmly" about Moscow's involvement in the last presidential election, but he warned that the "stupidity" of domestic politics and the special counsel's ongoing probe into the issue was holding back U.S.-Russian relations.