It is one of a slew of allegations relating to Donald Trump and an investigation into alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 US election, according to the BBC. It comes ahead of the former FBI chief’s testimony to the Senate ...
Read More »Fired Trump aide Michael Flynn wants immunity to testify on Russia allegations
Robert Kelner says his client “has a story to tell”, but needs to guard against “unfair prosecution”, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. Congress is investigating the allegations, with one senator warning of Kremlin “propaganda on steroids”. Mr Flynn ...
Read More »Trump asks US Congress to probe if Obama ordered wiretap
The White House asked the U.S. Congress on Sunday to examine whether the Obama administration abused its investigative authority during the 2016 campaign, as part of an ongoing congressional probe into Russia’s influence on the election, Joinfo.comreports with reference to ...
Read More »U.S. inquiries into Russian election hacking include three FBI probes
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is pursuing at least three separate probes relating to alleged Russian hacking of the U.S. presidential elections, according to five current and former government officials with direct knowledge of the situation, according to Reuters. ...
Read More »Donald Trump acknowledges Russia role in U.S. election hacking: aide
Reince Priebus said Trump believed Russia was behind the intrusions into the Democratic Party organizations, although Priebus did not clarify whether the president-elect agreed that the hacks were directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reports. “He accepts the fact ...
Read More »US intel report: Putin sought to help Trump win election
The US intelligence said in the declassified report published on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Donald Trump win the presidential election, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. The report was released shortly after intelligence chiefs ...
Read More »US announces Russian sanctions, expels 35 diplomats
President Barack Obama took unprecedented steps Thursday retaliating against what the administration described as “Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities,” including sanctioning six Russian individuals and five Russian entities as well as ordering Russian diplomats to leave the country, CNN reports. US ...
Read More »CNN: Obama administration prepares sanctions against Russia for meddling US election
The actions are expected to include expanded sanctions and diplomatic measures, the officials said, in what the administration deems a proportional response to a Russian operation that went beyond cyber hacking activities common among nations, CNN reports. Some of the ...
Read More »US President Obama says he could’ve won election again
“I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it,” Obama told his former senior adviser David ...
Read More »Barack Obama promises retaliation for Russian election hacking
“We need to take action and we will,” he told US public radio network NPR, according to the BBC. Russia stands accused by the US of hacking the emails of the Democratic Party and a key Hillary Clinton aide, which ...
Read More »Vladimir Putin personally involved in US election hack – intelligence report
U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. Two senior ...
Read More »US President orders investigation into cyber attacks during election season
“The President has directed the Intelligence Community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process. It is to capture lessons learned from that and to report to a range of stakeholders,” White House Homeland Security ...
Read More »Scientists urge Clinton campaign to recount vote totals in swing states
The scientists, among them J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, told the Clinton campaign they believe there is a questionable trend of Hillary Clinton performing worse in counties that relied ...
Read More »Hillary Clinton: ‘Don’t lose heart, don’t give up’
In a speech to the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee urged supporters not to “lose heart, don’t give up on the values we share.” And she gave among the most personal testimonials ever about the ...
Read More »Donald Trump elected 45th president of the USA
One by one, the swing states fell his way: Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and then Wisconsin, USA Today reports. “I pledge to be president for all Americans,” Trump said to an enthusiastic crowd of supporters in New York. “We ...
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