The data leak contains a wealth of personal information on roughly 61 percent of the US population, according to Gizmodo. Along with home addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers, the records include advanced sentiment analyses used by political groups to predict ...
Read More »U.S. student who was returned from North Korea in coma has died
U.S. student Otto Warmbier, who was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months before being returned home in a coma less than a week ago, has died in a Cincinnati hospital, his family said in a statement on Monday, according ...
Read More »U.S. student freed from North Korea has severe brain injury
Otto Warmbier, 22, who arrived in the United States on Tuesday, is stable but “shows no sign of understanding language, responding to verbal commands or awareness of his surrounding,” said Dr. Daniel Kanter, medical director of the neuroscience intensive care ...
Read More »Washington Post: Trump under investigation for possible obstruction of justice
The move by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to investigate Trump’s conduct marks a major turning point in the nearly year-old FBI investigation, which until recently focused on Russian meddling during the presidential campaign and on whether there was ...
Read More »Gunman opens fire on US Senators at baseball field
Two members of Mr. Scalise’s protective police detail were wounded as they exchanged gunfire with the shooter in what other lawmakers described as a chaotic, terror-filled ten minutes that turned the baseball practice into an early-morning nightmare. Police said a ...
Read More »Trump ‘considering’ firing special counsel Mueller
“I think he’s considering perhaps terminating the special counsel,” Christopher Ruddy — who was at the White House Monday — told PBS’ Judy Woodruff on “PBS NewsHour”, according to CNN. “I think he’s weighing that option.” Chris Ruddy to @JudyWoodruff: ...
Read More »First Lady Melania Trump, Son Barron, 11, Move Into the White House
“It’s official! @FLOTUS & Barron have made the move to DC!” Stephanie Grisham, Melania Trump’s communications director, tweeted Sunday night, according to NBC News. It’s official! @FLOTUS & Barron have made the move to DC! #WelcomeHome https://t.co/P2QgN1iFi5 — Stephanie ...
Read More »Comey accuses Trump administration of ‘lies’
The White House’s shifting rationale for his dismissal “confused” the former director, he said, adding that it was the administration’s subsequent statements that the FBI was in “disarray” that moved him to speak, according to The Hill. “The administration chose ...
Read More »Fired FBI Director Comey testimony: Trump asked me to let Flynn investigation go
Comey magnified the political crisis engulfing the White House by releasing his opening statement ahead of a blockbuster appearance on Capitol Hill on Thursday, according to CNN. The dramatic document sketched a stunningly detailed account of Comey’s intimate meetings with the President, ...
Read More »Former FBI director Comey ‘asked not to be left alone with Trump’
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 »Most Americans want ‘aggressive’ action on climate change: Reuters/Ipsos poll
The June 2-4 opinion poll suggests American voters may not penalize President Donald Trump too harshly for walking away from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, even if they would have preferred he keep the country in the deal, according to ...
Read More »Elon Musk to Trump: You quit Paris, so I quit you
“Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” Musk said Thursday on Twitter, shortly after the US president announced from the Rose Garden that he would begin the process of ...
Read More »Trump dismays, angers allies by abandoning global climate pact
Trump, tapping into the “America First” message he used when he was elected president last year, said the Paris accord would undermine the U.S. economy, cost U.S. jobs, weaken American national sovereignty and put the country at a permanent disadvantage ...
Read More »CNN fires Kathy Griffin
CNN’s decision comes one day after photos were released of Griffin that showed the comedian holding up a bloody head resembling that of President Donald Trump. “CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year’s Eve program,” ...
Read More »Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media checks
The new questions, part of an effort to tighten vetting of would-be visitors to the United States, was approved on May 23 by the Office of Management and Budget despite criticism from a range of education officials and academic groups ...
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