From his Scottish golf resort, Trump tweets about Russia…

President Donald Trump, at his luxury seaside golf course here, turned his eye to domestic politics Saturday morning -- attacking former President Barack Obama, questioning the FBI, torching CNN and bragging about his 2016 win. With country roads to the golf course cordoned off, and aides mum about the president's activities on a sunny Saturday morning, he gave a lens into his mind around 11 a.m. local time.

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The Latest: Trump hits the links at his Scottish golf resort

U.S. President Donald Trump plays golf at Turnberry golf club, Scotland, Saturday, July 14, 2018. Trump is spending the weekend at his sea-side Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, where aides had said he would be busy preparing for his Monday summit in Helsinki, Finland.

Trump and congressional Republicans are working to “end welfare as we know it”

At the end of May, the Virginia state Senate joined the House of Delegates in electing to participate in the Medicaid expansion provided by the Affordable Care Act. As 400,000 Virginians look toward expanded access to health care coverage from Medicaid, millions of Americans across the country could encounter new restrictions on their access to the program.

NJ Transit gets more time to get federal funding for Portal Bridge

WASHINGTON -- New Jersey Transit has received a six-month extension as it seeks federal funding to replace the North Portal Bridge, part of the Gateway project that also includes a new tunnel under the Hudson River. The Federal Transit Administration gave NJ Transit until Jan. 31 to supply the necessary information for federal funds under the Capital Investment Grants or "New Starts" program, according to a letter obtained by NJ Advance Media.

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)

Feature: U.S. state of Georgia seeks more Chinese ties despite concerns over trade dispute

Despite concerns over the U.S.-initiated trade dispute with China, the state of Georgia is showing strong interest in building cooperative ties with Chinese partners in order to offset the negative impact caused by Washington's protectionist trade policy. Georgia, a southern U.S. state known for its business-friendly environment and trade-driven economy, just hosted an investment and trade forum with northwest China's Shaanxi Province for local entrepreneurs and business representatives who were eager to find more potential opportunities to forge partnerships with the Chinese side.

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."

Trump blames Obama for Russian hacking of Democratic email server

LONDON President Donald Trump blamed his predecessor Saturday for not doing more to prevent and punish Russia's cyber attack on Democratic email servers in an attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election. "The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration," Trump tweeted , his first response to the indictments of Russian intelligence officers in the hacking scheme.

The Red-State Democrats’ Many Paths to ‘No’

Conventional wisdom decrees that red-state Democratic senators running for reelection are politically screwed, regardless of how they vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. If they signal thumbs-up, they'll infuriate the party's progressive base and dampen the Democratic turnout they'll badly need.

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.

Then, If he’s Re-Elected, he’LL Savage Businesses for…

Democratic senator Bill Nelson has been avoiding common campaign expenses such as paying payroll tax and providing benefits such as health insurance by staffing his reelection effort solely through contractors, a rarely used and frowned-upon tactic. Nelson's filings with the Federal Election Commission so far this cycle contain no disbursements for payroll or salary, nor payments for payroll taxes that come along with having salaried workers.

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.

Trump Supporters Really Don’t Care About the Russian Indictments. Do You?

Do You?" > >" addthis:title="Trump Supporters Really Don't Care About the Russian Indictments. Do You?" > The hardcore followers of Donald Trump-the ones who consume nothing but right-wing media, including social media-really do think the indictments of twelve Russian operatives for meddling in the 2016 presidential election is just so much fake news, just another effort by the "deep state" to discredit the 45th President.

Trump criticized for not leading effort to secure elections

As alarms blare about Russian interference in U.S. elections, the Trump administration is facing criticism that it has no clear national strategy to protect the country during the upcoming midterms and beyond. Both Republicans and Democrats have criticized the administration's response as fragmented, without enough coordination across federal agencies.

As Supreme Court battle roils DC, suburban voters shrug

It stands to shift the direction of the nation's highest court for decades, but President Donald Trump's move to fill a Supreme Court vacancy has barely cracked the consciousness of some voters in the nation's top political battlegrounds. Even among this year's most prized voting bloc - educated suburban women - there's no evidence that a groundswell of opposition to a conservative transformation of the judicial branch, which could lead to the erosion or reversal of Roe v.