Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Rep. Mike Kelly took the White House's "deep state" conspiracy theory and added some mustard to it in a newly uncovered speech last week. Kelly said that not only is there a widespread government effort to undermine President Trump, but that it's being led by none other than former president Barack Obama -- who is running a "shadow government."
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Rep. Mike Kelly took the White House's "deep state" conspiracy theory and added some mustard to it in a newly uncovered speech last week. Kelly said that not only is there a widespread government effort to undermine President Trump, but that it's being led by none other than former president Barack Obama -- who is running a "shadow government."
In this July 19, 2011, file photo, Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss their support for a bill that will penalize criminals who finance and bring children to dogfights and cockfights. Sutton plans to jump into the 2018 Ohio governor's race, bringing a solid track record of election wins and fundraising that could position her as the initial Democratic front-runner.
President Donald Trump's claim that former President Barack Obama had "illegally" wiretapped him during the 2016 presidential campaign continued to dominate the discussion on CNN Monday. In a panel hosted by CNN's Kate Bolduan, Women Vote Trump co-chair Amy Kremer did her best to back up the president's claims that Obama had broken the law by tapping his phone lines at Trump Tower - but just like every other Trump surrogate interviewed so far, she offered no proof whatsoever to support her position.
But The Outline's Adrianne Jeffries documented a huge number of other problematic results: search snippets claiming that monosodium glutamate causes brain damage, Barack Obama is the King of the U.S., and USA president Warren Harding was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, in addition to less serious, but equally embarrassing, errors such as an answer about the smell of Iodine linking to a guide to cooking Meth, and one about why fire engines are red citing a Monty Python joke. Then, as noted by ReCode , videos of Google's in-home assistant replying with the same answer began to circulate, an unsettling development that would give your conservative uncle the upper hand in your next political debate.
During George W. Bush's presidency, he took on the role of the Easter Bunny to entertain children at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Photos of Spicer wearing the fluffy, white costume resurfaced on social media this week as the Christian observance of Lent begins.
A former CIA counterterrorism analyst says President Donald Trump's bizarre Twitter rant over the weekend could sow the seeds for his downfall. Aki Peritz, a former intelligence analyst who specialized in terrorist threats, strongly doubts former President Barack Obama, a constitutional lawyer, would have illegally wiretapped Trump during the presidential campaign, reported the Independent .
President Donald Trump came under heavy fire from virtually the entire media and political establishment over the weekend in the wake of his wild allegations against former President Barack Obama, and appears to have made the atmosphere of crisis around the White House worse rather than better. As the New York Times reported on Sunday, even FBI director James Comey, widely seen in Washington as a Trump ally, has apparently been angered by the president's unsupported charges that Obama had ordered the wiretapping of his Trump Tower headquarters prior to the November election.
Trump's tweet-burst suggests he has no idea how surveillance works. But Team Obama's denials leave some loopholes President Donald Trump came under heavy fire from the entire media and political establishment over the weekend, after making unsupported allegations in a series of Saturday morning tweets that former President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretapping operation at Trump Tower prior to the November election.
The problem is, Trump fires off flares he knows will get his base frothing at the mouth and in the end, it winds up giving cover to the Obama administration. Clouded up, is the possibility the United States government might have monitored the Trump campaign and any contact it had with the Russian government.
Thanks to the Tweeter In Chief, the internet is abuzz today with talk of wiretapping, McCarthyism, FISA courts and Russian spying. The problem is, Trump fires off flares he knows will get his base frothing at the mouth and in the end, it winds up giving cover to the Obama administration.
NAACP President Cornell William Brooks speaks outside the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, March 3, 2017, following a meeting with Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Brooks said he met with Sessions over concerns that recent policy changes "signal a threatening decline" in the Justice Department's commitment to civil rights.
This undated file photo provided by the law firm Public Counsel shows Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, who was was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child but was protected from deportation by President Barack Obama's administration. A federal magistrate in Seattle said Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 that he will not hold an immediate hearing on whether to release Ramirez, who was arrested by immigration agents despite his participation in federal program designed to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
This undated file photo provided by the law firm Public Counsel shows Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, who was was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child but was protected from deportation by President Barack Obama's administration. A federal magistrate in Seattle said Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 that he will not hold an immediate hearing on whether to release Ramirez, who was arrested by immigration agents despite his participation in federal program designed to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
This Dec. 8, 2008, file photo shows the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. A presidential speech to Congress is one of those all-American moments that ooze ritual and decorum.
This Dec. 8, 2008, file photo shows the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. A presidential speech to Congress is one of those all-American moments that ooze ritual and decorum.
Trump's telling a gathering of conservatives that "as we speak today, immigration officers are finding gang members, drug dealers and criminal aliens and throwing them the hell out." His declaration comes the day after he and one of his Cabinet secretaries offered clashing takes on the nature of the deportation push.
... urgency preexisting and superseding any policy-driven basis for membership. This is why group belief is free to be so weird. We overlook the hypocrisies and the shortcomings within our own coalition out of a desire to protect ourselves from our ...
Donald Trump assured Americans Thursday that he is not acting in covert concert with Vladimir Putin. "I have nothing to do with Russia," he said during his news conference, insisting, "The whole Russian thing, that's a ruse."
This undated photo provided by the law firm Public Counsel shows Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, who was was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child but was protected from deportation by President Barack Obama's administration. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Medina on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, at his father's home, even though he has a work permit under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Stories make a big deal about things like the addition of a larger television in the Oval Office dining room , his removal of President Barack Obama's crimson curtains in the Oval Office for a gold set, and the fact that President Trump often spends his nights alone because First Lady Melania still resides in New York. There's no disputing that President Trump has ruffled a lot of feathers with the decisions he's made in his early days.
Stories make a big deal about things like the addition of a larger television in the Oval Office dining room , his removal of President Barack Obama's crimson curtains in the Oval Office for a gold set, and the fact that President Trump often spends his nights alone because First Lady Melania still resides in New York. There's no disputing that President Trump has ruffled a lot of feathers with the decisions he's made in his early days.
President Donald Trump recently said that despite the mudslinging that took place during the campaign period, he likes Barack Obama and he believes the former POTUS likes him too. Trump previously questioned the legitimacy of Obama's presidency because he was born outside the US.
After a combative start to his presidency, Donald Trump delivered a more unifying message Sunday and sought to reassure Americans he is up to the daunting task ahead, as he turned to the business of government. Speaking in the White House East Room during a swearing-in ceremony for top aides, the president warned his staff of future challenges but declared he believed they were ready.
There is an inescapable one-word question facing the White House little more than 24 hours after the Inauguration: "Really?" This can't really be how they wanted to begin Donald Trump's presidency or the message they wanted to send to the nation on his first day. The question arises after a series of statements by the new president and his new press secretary on Saturday.
Those familiar with Donald Trump's inaugural address before he delivered it advised us it would be "Jacksonian." By that I suppose they meant belligerent, nationalist, and populist.
Those familiar with Donald Trump's inaugural address before he delivered it advised us it would be "Jacksonian." By that I suppose they meant belligerent, nationalist, and populist.
On Friday, Washington time, on the west stairs of the Capitol Building, Donald John Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. The inauguration ceremony is expected to take several hours, and will include speeches, musical performances and a parade right afterwards.
In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, Kenyan artist Evans Yegon displays one of his paintings of Donald Trump, as a painting of President Barack Obama hangs on the wall, left, at his studio in Nairobi, Kenya. Yegon is sad to see President Barack Obama leave office.
In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, Kenyan artist Evans Yegon displays one of his paintings of Donald Trump, as a painting of President Barack Obama hangs on the wall, left, at his studio in Nairobi, Kenya. Yegon is sad to see President Barack Obama leave office.
In this Nov. 10, 2016 photo, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. In this Nov. 10, 2016 photo, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
'Big up yaself O': Drake pays tribute to Obama by sharing bizarre faceswap meme showing the president sporting the rapper's beard and haircut Drake paid tribute to President Barack Obama by sharing a bizarre image from a popular meme of the Canadian rapper's face mixed with the president's. In the caption Drake wrote: 'As a Canadian that calls America home for part of the year I will always carry your words and the memory of your time in office with me as inspiration.
In this Nov. 20, 2016, file photo, Drake accepts the award for favorite artist - rap/hip-hop at the American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Drake is saluting President Barack Obama with a bizarre image of the Canadian rapper's face mixed with the president's.
Drake is paying tribute to President Barack Obama by sharing am image from a popular meme of the Canadian rapper's face mixed with the president's. Drake shared the picture on his Instagram on Tuesday night following Obama's farewell address to the nation.
Drake is saluting President Barack Obama... Just because some of the families of the nine people killed and three people who survived a racist massacre in a Charleston church have forgiven the man convicted in the shootings doesn't mean they think his... Families of the nine people killed in a racist massacre at a South Carolina church have expressed a broad range of feelings when it comes to how the convicted killer should be punished. Lawyers for Texas death row inmate Christopher Wilkins looked to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep him from becoming the first prisoner executed in the nation this year.
In this Sept. 20, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama hands his coat to aide Marvin Nicholson as he walks to greet people on the tarmac as he arrives at Tampa International Airport on Air Force One in Tampa, Fla.
In this Jan. 5, 2017, photo, Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington. Stung by years of failure to stop Syria's bloodshed, the United States is now but a bystander to the civil war as President Barack Obama leaves office.
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night to say that a planned intelligence briefing for him on "so-called 'Russian-hacking'" had been delayed until Friday, a development he called 'very strange!" However, a U.S. official says there has been no delay in the briefing and that the intelligence community was confused by Trump's tweet. The official was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night to say that a planned intelligence briefing for him on "so-called 'Russian-hacking'" had been delayed until Friday, a development he called "very strange!"   The tweet was the latest sign of Trump's skepticism about a case pressed by the Obama administration, based on the work of U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, that Russia tried to influence the U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic email accounts, among other actions. Several leading Republicans have also endorsed that view.
Arab social media users were not impressed with outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry's speech outlining his vision of a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Twitter users charged that Barack Obama, the lame duck US president, is going out of his way to try to secure a legacy in his last days in office, and said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas does not have the powers necessary to implement the process toward statehood as outlined in Kerry's speech and the UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements.
It's the time of year for looking forward. It's when people look for the good in the world, and in one another, and try and let bygones be bygones.
WikiLeaks has received the most attention when it comes to document and e-mail leakers from the 2016 campaign, but a hacker going by the moniker Guccifer 2.0 also leaked several documents from Democratic Party institutions and officials during the 2016 campaign. Unlike WikiLeaks, his leaks weren't searchable, he frequently showed questionable news judgement and once seemed to lie about the contents of a leak.
Greetings Power Lunchers, and welcome to yet another edition in the increasingly weird contest for state party chair of the Florida Democratic Party. FDP OMG: In order to parse the latest news, that state Sen. Dwight Bullard of Miami is in the running for Florida Democratic Party state chair as a state committeeman from the Panhandle county of Gadsden, we need to look at how we got here.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is praising U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for keenly feeling American voters' mood to win the election, and he rejects the White House's accusations of meddling in the vote. Speaking at an annual news conference, Putin said Friday that Russia hopes to develop "businesslike and constructive relations that would benefit both Russia and the United States."
Rich Tran was just elected the mayor of Milpitas. In his inaugural speech on Dec. 13, Tran lifted heavily from parts of President Barack Obama's inauguration speech in 2008.