Even as the FBI and others dig into claims that Russia has a trove of compromising details on President-elect Donald Trump, another hunt was suddenly underway. This one seeks the former British intelligence officer who reportedly had a key role in drafting the classified dossier - and has now gone into hiding.
Rep. Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump's nominee for the director of the CIA, says he would make the transition from a partisan, policymaking lawmaker to an objective intelligence collector. Rep. Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump's nominee for the director of the CIA, says he would make the transition from a partisan, policymaking lawmaker to an objective intelligence collector.
Ben Carson testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, January 12, 2017. It's no great stretch to say that retired neurosurgeon and scam presidential candidate Ben Carson is not qualified to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
President-elect Donald Trump listens to a question during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. President-elect Donald Trump listens to a question during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017.
President-elect Donald Trump and his team on Wednesday attacked news organizations that spread unsubstantiated reports about a damaging dossier collected on him by Russia, an incident that illustrates how old rules of journalism are tested in today's rapidly changing media world. Trump called BuzzFeed "a pile of garbage" for publishing the allegations and got into a spat with CNN's Jim Acosta during his first news conference since July.
In his first press conference since being elected president, Donald Trump thanked the media. He praised news outfits that didn't publish a story about a document that describes alleged Russian efforts to compromise him, even though many of those news organizations had the story for months and held on to it.
Clinton campaign's chief press spokesman tweets claim that implies a deliberate attempt to keep secret error-strewn and unverified claims of Russia dossier BuzzFeed published the memos in full, but most news outlets did not include the specific allegations because they were unable to independently verify them CNN and the New York Times publicly defended their decisions not to publish the dossier - The Times saying the claims were 'totally unsubstantiated' Latest claim by Clinton aides that there was unfairness to them in election - which they never claimed before they lost One of Hillary Clinton's chief aides has surfaced to claim the media 'sat on' an error-filled and unverifiable dossier of allegations of Russia having a blackmail tape of Donald Trump.
Clinton campaign's chief press spokesman tweets claim that implies a deliberate attempt to keep secret error-strewn and unverified claims of Russia dossier BuzzFeed published the memos in full, but most news outlets did not include the specific allegations because they were unable to independently verify them CNN and the New York Times publicly defended their decisions not to publish the dossier - The Times saying the claims were 'totally unsubstantiated' Latest claim by Clinton aides that there was unfairness to them in election - which they never claimed before they lost One of Hillary Clinton's chief aides has surfaced to claim the media 'sat on' an error-filled and unverifiable dossier of allegations of Russia having a blackmail tape of Donald Trump.
January 11: Sworn Trump enemy John McCain admits HE handed smear dossier to FBI - as details surface of document's bizarre journey from Moscow Sworn Donald Trump enemy John McCain admitted Wednesday that he passed the dossier of claims of a Russian blackmail plot against the president-elect. The Arizona senator issued a public statement amid mounting questions of his exact role in the affair - and how a document riddled with errors and unverifiable claims came to be published.
So it looks like Russia may have some dirty secrets on Donald Trump - and that they worked to influence the outcome of the election. Here's a helpful explainer.
Enough to drive you crazy! Driver gets a $128 ticket for leaving his car to warm up on his OWN driveway in freezing temperatures Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner WILL join his White House administration - as a senior advisor to the president Huge manhunt in Orlando for gunman who shot dead 17-year veteran cop and mother-of-two outside Walmart after 'murdering his pregnant girlfriend' Revealed: The eight traits the man who will make the best lover, husband and father possesses Raising a child is as expensive as buying a FERRARI! Costs to raise offspring from birth to adulthood spiral to $233,000 The Donald welcomes billionaire founder of China's Alibaba website to Trump Tower as he praises the entrepreneur's plant create 'one million jobs in the US Shocked waitress is left a racist note by white couple who 'don't tip black people' - but COMPLEMENT her for 'great service' Do YOU ... (more)
In this April 24, 2016 file photo, a man walks by as people watch a TV news program showing an image published earlier in the day in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea's ballistic missile that the North claimed to have launched from underwater, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea. With Donald Trump getting ready to become president, North Korea is talking about launching an ICBM and Washington officials are saying they will shoot down anything that threatens the territory of the U.S. or its allies.
I wouldn't say things are strange in Washington these days, but don't be surprised if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange becomes the new head of the CIA. Won't it be refreshing to have a president who can both take care of international and domestic crises and still give us critiques of prime-time television shows? Death row inmates should pay attention.
In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 photo, shipyard workers walk to work at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. With President-elect Donald Trump demanding more ships, the Navy is proposing the biggest shipbuilding boom since the end of the Cold War to meet threats from a resurgent Russia and saber-rattling China.
In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 photo, shipyard workers walk to work at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. With President-elect Donald Trump demanding more ships, the Navy is proposing the biggest shipbuilding boom since the end of the Cold War to meet threats from a resurgent Russia and saber-rattling China.
A day after the release of a damning intelligence report on Russia's wide-ranging efforts to influence the U.S. election, President-elect Donald Trump called Saturday for a closer relationship between the two nations, saying only "stupid" people or "fools" would think this is unwise. The United States, Trump wrote in a series of Twitter messages Saturday, has "enough problems around the world without yet another one."
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.
A part of the declassified version Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia's efforts to interfere with the U.S. political process is photographed in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to influence the American presidential election in favor of electing Donald Trump, according to the report issued by U.S. intelligence agencies.
Coming from a presidential candidate, Donald Trump 's misty-eyed admiration of Russia and its autocratic leader was weird. Coming from a president-elect, it's nothing short of alarming.
This giant rooster statue resembling the US President-elect will now be the official mascot of a mall in China. Donald J Trump, the US President-elect is all set to join office on January 20, 2017.
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.
When most Americans heard that Donald Trump's inauguration committee had invited a singer named Rebecca Ferguson to perform as part of the festivities in Washington this month, their first reaction was most likely, "Who?" No, she is not the privileged teenage singer who brought the world "Friday" - that's Rebecca Black. Ferguson, who's best known as the runner-up on 2010's seventh season of The X Factor in the UK, confirmed the invite on Twitter Monday night with an extended message laying out her one condition for agreeing to a gig that so many bigger names have already rejected .
We've heard Donald Trump is having a difficult time booking talent for Inauguration Day . The only performer the President-elect has confirmed thus far is America's Got Talent runner-up Jackie Evancho.
In this Dec. 2, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama pauses for media to take their places as he meets with United Nations Secretary-General-designate, Antonio Guterres, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. Guterres takes the reins of the United Nations on New Year's Day, promising to be a "bridge-builder" but facing an antagonistic incoming U.S. administration led by Donald Trump who thinks the world body's 193 member states do nothing except talk and have a good time.
President-elect Donald Trump has ditched his press pool once again - this time traveling to play golf at his club in Jupiter, Florida, without a pool of journalists on hand to ensure the public has knowledge of his whereabouts. A club member posted a photo on Twitter of Trump on the greens Saturday morning and said the president-elect was accompanied by about 25 U.S. Secret Service agents.
Northern Michigan's Lake Superior State University on Saturday released its 42nd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was fond this year of saying "big league" but making it sound like "bigly."
'Happy New Year to my many enemies!' Donald Trump hits back at Democrats who 'lost so badly they just don't know what to do' as Russian 'spies' leave the US after Obama's last-gasp swipe at Putin Pictured: The Texas mother, 40, who fell more than 20ft to her death from Colorado ski lift along with her two injured daughters aged nine and 12 Have the Russians hacked the power grid? US officials say code linked to the country's operations was found within systems at a Vermont electric plant Queen Elizabeth may STILL not be well enough to attend church on New Year's Day a week after she missed Christmas prayers with a 'heavy cold' Was a FIRE the real reason the 'unsinkable' Titanic went down? Documentary claims a boiler room blaze had been raging since the liner set sail from Southampton UFC poster girl Ronda Rousey is humiliated on her return to the cage as she is defeated after just 48 ... (more)
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.
Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump's grandparents fled poverty in Germany to go to America President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday taunted his "many enemies" who "lost so badly" in a tweet celebrating New Year's Eve. Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do.
The Aylesford and district volunteer fire department pulled up to a pond near a fire on Aylesford Road and when they started to fill their pumper with water from the pond, no water came from the hydrant. Let's face it, 2016 has been a wild year in the headlines.
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.
A Chinese shopping mall is ringing in the year of the rooster with a giant sculpture of a chicken that looks like U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. China has gone cuckoo for the cartoonish pastiche - complete with an orange pompadour - of the billionaire politician in Taiyuan, capital of the northern province of Shanxi.
George Michael dies 'of heart failure' at his UK home aged just 53 as heartbroken Wham! bandmate Andrew Ridgeley pays tribute to 'my beloved friend Yog' and fans mourn legend's death 'Do you really want to hurt me? I guess you do 2016 - #ripboygeorge': Sarah Michelle Gellar is hammered online after mixing up her 80s pop icons in wake of George Michael's death 'I am in deep shock. I have lost a close friend.'
Donald Trump issued a photo greeting for Christmas, and it was notable for what was missing. In the photo Trump is seen giving a thumbs up in front of a Christmas tree.
For a few hours today, liberal Twitter actually thought that the Republican National Committee either called Donald Trump our "new King" or compared Trump to Jesus. In fact, liberal Twitter might still think the RNC called Trump a King.
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 has every right to select whomever he wants for his Cabinet and chief advisory positions. Some of his choices, however, make it harder to distinguish between the reality of our 45th president and the parodies of him on “Saturday Night Live.” Sometimes it seems as if Trump is playing jokes.
In 2016, Donald Trump was elected to the White House. The Cubs won the World Series.
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."
... to lie and the fact that he's a racist, sexist bully who may also be fairly unintelligent. But he also has some weird and disturbing personality tics that are less frequently mentioned, but which nonetheless give us the heebie jeebies. Trump has ...
... relationship between Jones and Dugin is the same force that draws Jones and Trump together: ego. "It all seems weird and typical that people on the outer reaches of the far, far right find alliances with each other," Fenster said. "Even when they ...
Donald Trump harangued the former first minister of Scotland Alex Salmond as "Mad Alex" and accused him of being on a "march to oblivion" in a series of increasingly angry and eccentric letters about windfarms he claimed were blighting his Scottish golf courses. The correspondence with Salmond, revealed by the Huffington Post after a freedom of information request, demonstrated that Trump's tone swung wildly between coaxing and threatening as he grew increasingly frustrated with his former ally's refusal to change his policy on renewable energy.
'If you voted for Donald Trump, you're an a**hole!' Savage Garden's Darren Hayes slams the U.S President elect in a bizarre Twitter rant Savage Garden's Darren Hayes has gone on a bizarre Twitter rant while slamming U.S President elect, Donald Trump. On Monday, the 44-year-old hit out at fans who support the controversial politician, labelling them as 'a**holes'.
A man is wanted for questioning after he walked into the Trump Links golf-course clubhouse in The Bronx saying he was looking for memorabilia, left empty-handed - and then crawled under a fence to get back in a little while later, police sources said Tuesday. The bizarre incident unfolded after a golf-course manager saw the man drive onto the property at 3 p.m. Monday in a U-Haul truck with an Arizona license plate, sources said.
In one of her strangest interviews yet, "Full Frontal" host Samantha Bee sat down with conservative media giant Glenn Beck , and the two agreed that together they'd fight "Trumpism." The two agreed that each other's supporters are mortal enemies of the other, yet somehow we all have a common foe : President-elect Donald Trump.
In one of her strangest interviews yet, "Full Frontal" host Samantha Bee sat down with conservative media giant Glenn Beck , and the two agreed that together they'd fight "Trumpism." The two agreed that each other's supporters are mortal enemies of the other, yet somehow we all have a common foe : President-elect Donald Trump.
The 16-year-old singer who will perform at Trump's inauguration has a transgender sister who's vocal about anti-LGBTQ policies. Donald Trump is a president-elect obsessed.
Sylvester Stallone says while he was "flattered" to be considered for an arts post by president-elect Donald Trump, he believes he would be more effective working for military veterans. "I believe I could be more effective by bringing national attention to returning military personnel in an effort to find gainful employment, suitable housing and financial assistance these heroes deserve," he said in response.
London: Australia's High Commissioner to Britain, Alexander Downer, has appeared in a self-narrated and often wooden short documentary on the BBC to urge Britain to "get on" with leaving the European Union. The four-minute film features Mr Downer strolling through Australia House and is set to an acoustic version of Waltzing Matilda and finishes with Mr Downer being chauffeured through central London in a Jaguar car with the numberplate "AUS1."