Category: US Politics

Crime scene tape wrapped around a computer keyboard

“It’s beautiful, it’s elegant, it’s convincing,” Markus Jakobsson gushes, describing the fake email used to hack into the personal Gmail account of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman. Sent on March 19, 2016, to the chairman, John Podesta, the email landed in the spam folder of his account.

Military: First-known combat death since Trump in office

In this Jan. 27, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, in Washington. FILE – In this Jan. 27, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, in Washington.

Best of Rossie: a time to mourn and reassess

BEST OF ROSSIE: A time to mourn and reassess Television showed the explosion again and again until the senses cried for relief. Check out this story on pressconnects.com: http://press.sn/2kebwKj Rossie leaves behind a huge legacy: columns that are etched into the memories of generations of newspaper readers and a contingent of reporters, writers and editors.

Senate Republicans release education funding plan

Democrats confer on the Senate floor as the Republican side sits empty during a recess, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, in Olympia, Wash. Senators were debating whether to vote on the “levy cliff” bill, which would delay a reduction in the amount of money school districts can collect though property taxes.

Tillamook UAS Test Range Utilizes New High Altitude COA

As part of an unmanned flight test for NASA and the FAA, Near Space Corporation successfully flew a drone from the edge of space to operate as a surrogate test bed for technologies supporting new Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles currently under development. The September 26th test, conducted for NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, was the first of many flights that will be taking advantage of a unique FAA High Altitude Certificate Of Authorization .

Editorial: Views from Ohio

When astronaut Eugene Cernan left the surface of the moon after a very active Apollo 17 lunar expedition in 1972, he knew he was the last man on the moon, at least for a while. Cernan, who died Monday at age 82, didn’t have the all-American persona of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, nor the luck of being first, such as Alan Shepherd as the first American in space or Neil Armstrong as the first man to walk on the moon.

Lawmaker introduces H-1B reform bill

When Trump pledges immigration reform, he’s largely talking about building a wall and deporting illegal immigrants. But in Congress, there are numerous proposals to reform the H-1B visa — the incredibly popular visa for high-skilled foreigners.

Mnuchin Backs Fed Independence and Signals Reform Isn’t Priority

In written questions by senators following his confirmation hearing on Thursday, Mnuchin was asked about his thoughts on “politicizing decisions made by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the benefits of an independent central bank.” “The Federal Reserve is organized with sufficient independence to conduct monetary policy and open market operations,” Mnuchin responded to Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat.

Why the Left Fears Ultrasound Technologyby Alexandra DeSanctisOn…

With impressive creativity, the piece attempts both to dismiss the clear evidence that is presented by ultrasound images and to imply that inanimate medical tools are motivated by a subversive pro-life agenda. Though the Democratic party and its vast pro-abortion wing cling fiercely to , The Atlantic ‘s bizarre offering reveals the truth: that being pro-abortion requires the resolute denial of science in order to facilitate a rejection of the unborn child’s humanity.

Abortion opponents hope Trump will support, help their cause

US President Donald Trump prepares to sign several executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, January 23, 2017. Trump on Monday signed three orders on withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, freezing the hiring of federal workers and hitting foreign NGOs that help with abortion.

John Brennan Fast Facts

Was considered a shoo-in for the position of CIA director after President Barack Obama’s election in November 2008. Brennan dropped out of the running for the job after being criticized for supporting the enhanced terrorist interrogation techniques in use since September 11, 2001.

Trump Reportedly Interested in a Mars Mission

Trump also talked with historian Douglas Brinkley about the Apollo program and how it brought the country together in the 1960s. [Washington Post] night’s scheduled launch of a missile warning satellite on an Atlas 5. The launch was first delayed by sensor problems with the rocket, and later when an aircraft entered restricted airspace.

Trump boasts about his ‘big victory’: ‘I outworked anybody who ever ran for office’

On the eve of his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump boasted to campaign donors about his election victory and the hard work behind it and touted an incoming Cabinet “the likes of which has never been appointed.” An upbeat Trump delivered meandering remarks Thursday night at a black-tie “candlelight dinner” for donors at Union Station that capped off a day of inaugural activities in advance of his swearing in as the nation’s 45th president on Friday.

Perry ‘can’t answer’ whether Trump plans DOE cuts

Two Democratic members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee asked Perry at his confirmation hearing to confirm a report that morning in The Hill regarding cuts to physics, computing, energy efficiency, fossil energy and more at DOE. “I think all of us, having been in the business we’ve been in for the years that we have, know that there are always a lot of statements.

NASA issues climate warning before Trump inauguration

Last year was the hottest on record with temperatures rising across the planet, NASA has warned, just days before climate change denier Donald Trump takes over the US presidency. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research was published yesterday ahead of Friday’s inauguration of Trump, who has voiced support for polluting fossil fuel industries.

Trump’s populism won’t work, says former Treasury chief

U.S. economist Larry Summers speaks during a panel on the second day of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. U.S. economist Larry Summers speaks during a panel on the second day of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017.

Live updates: Trump nominees talk science

Nelson asked whether Ross would support NOAA’s scientific integrity policy, which lays out how agency scientists can clearly communicate scientific results without political interference. “I support the dissemination of valid information to the public,” Ross said.

Did we really elect Donald Trump?

Republicans can argue until their last breath that Trump objectors are sore losers, but isn’t more at stake than “mere politics”? This phrase has been rendered quaint by such serious issues as: Russian hackers apparently trying to tilt the election toward Donald Trump; the FBI’s possibly politically motivated practices; Trump’s initial resistance to the conclusions of the U.S. intelligence community; Trump’s refusal to release tax records, which might mollify concerns about his relationship with Russia. These aren’t partisan issues, or shouldn’t be, as evidenced by the Justice Department inspector general’s decision to investigate how FBI Director James Comey handled the probe of Hillary Clinton’s email and private server.

Ignoring Trump’s Skepticism, Davos Elite Bets on Climate Change

Donald Trump has often ridiculed global warming and promised to withdraw the U.S. from the global accord signed in Paris in 2015. Yet despite the change of political weather in Washington, the captains of business and finance gathered in Davos this week will spend a lot of time talking about climate change — and how to make money from it.

Kathleen Parker: Did we really elect Donald Trump?

Republicans can argue until their last breath that Trump objectors are sore losers, but isn’t more at stake than “mere politics”? This phrase has been rendered quaint by such serious issues as Russian hackers apparently trying to tilt the election toward Donald Trump; the FBI’s possibly politically motivated practices; Trump’s initial resistance to the conclusions of the U.S. intelligence community; Trump’s refusal to release tax records, which might mollify concerns about his relationship with Russia. These aren’t partisan issues, or shouldn’t be, as evidenced by the Justice Department inspector general’s decision to investigate how FBI Director James B. Comey handled the probe of Hillary Clinton’s email and private server.

Hidden figures: What Trump’s AG pick Jeff Sessions wants to keep in the shadows

As the Senate hearings for Jeff Sessions’ nomination as attorney general ran into their second day, I kept thinking about the movie “Hidden Figures,” which my wife Judith and I saw three days earlier. The film is based on a book by Margot Lee Shetterly about three African-American women in the early 1960s who lived in the segregated South while working on NASA’s first manned space missions.

Guccifer 2.0 & me

Who or what is Guccifer 2.0? US intelligence agencies believe the mysterious hacker persona was central to efforts to interfere with last year’s American election and responsible for distributing hacked documents that embarrassed the Democratic Party. But now Guccifer 2.0 has broken a two-month silence to deny any connection to Russia.

British ex spy behind Trump dossier seen as a cool operator

Christopher Steele, the one-time British spy who has compiled an explosive dossier on President-elect Donald Trump, is a well-regarded operative who wouldn’t make up stories to satisfy his clients, according to diplomatic and intelligence experts who know him. Steele, 52, worked for MI6, Britain’s overseas intelligence agency, and served in Moscow in the early 1990s.