The Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against two Russian spies and two hackers behind the 2014 theft of data connected to half a billion Yahoo accounts, which officials called one of the largest known data breaches in American history. The four men together face 47 criminal charges, including conspiracy, computer fraud, economic espionage, theft of […]
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Senator Threatens FBI With Subpoena If Wire Tapping And Russia Questions Aren’t Answered
A US senator has warned he will use a court order to force the FBI to say whether Barack Obama wiretapped President Donald Trump’s phones. Senator Lindsey Graham said Congress would “flex its muscle” if FBI director James Comey did not meet its requests. The president has made unsubstantiated claims that his predecessor tapped his […]
Trump’s Tax Plan Would Benefit Trump The Most
The release of two pages from President Trump’s 2005 tax returns didn’t show much. But they did show just how much Trump — and other super-rich Americans — would benefit from his proposed tax plan. Donald and Melania Trump earned about $150 million in 2005, putting them in the top 1 percent of income earners for the year. […]
Trump Says Media Can Choose Where He Donates His Salary
US President Donald Trump will donate his $400,000 (£329,620) salary to charity at the end of 2017, his spokesman has confirmed. And in an unexpected twist, he wants the White House press corps to decide where it should go. Before taking office, Mr Trump told CBS’s 60 Minutes that he would not claim his presidential […]
Top Trump Aide Under Investigation For Tax Evasion
In the three years before he became Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon lived as a virtual nomad in a quest to build a populist political insurgency. No presidential adviser in recent memory has followed such a mysterious, peripatetic path to the White House. It was as though he was a man with no […]
Trump Yet To Donate Salary As Promised?
President Donald Trump pledged to forgo a presidential salary, but as his second payday approaches, the White House is declining to say if the president has donated any of his earnings yet. During the campaign, Trump promised he would take “no salary” if elected — a pledge he reiterated after he won. “I’m not going […]
Conway Implies Obama Did More Than Wiretap Trump Campaign
ALPINE, N.J. — The White House is offering yet another wrinkle in its attempt to support President Trump’s allegation — unfounded, so far — that his campaign headquarters in Manhattan was wiretapped by the Obama administration. The latest comes from Trump’s senior counselor Kellyanne Conway. She says the “surveillance” may be broader than even Trump suggested. In […]
New Budget Has GOP Fighting Amongst Selves
WASHINGTON Republican U.S. Representative Todd Rokita keeps a clock hanging on the wall of his Capitol Hill office that tracks the U.S. government’s rising debt in real time and reminds him of his top priority: reining in federal spending. “I was sent here on a fiscal note,” said the Indiana lawmaker and vice chairman of […]
Detained Immigrants Forced Into Manual Labor
Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were forced to work for $1 day, or for nothing at all — a violation of federal anti-slavery laws — a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit, filed in 2014 against one of the largest private prison companies in the country, reached class-action status this […]
McCain Wants Trump To Provide Wiretap Evidence
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) called Sunday for President Trump to either prove his claim that President Barack Obama tapped the phones in Trump Tower during last year’s election campaign or drop the accusation. “The president has one of two choices, either retract or provide the information that the American people deserve,” McCain […]
Putin Wants Better Communication With Trump
MOSCOW – The spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin is expressing frustration with the inconclusive first two months of relations between Moscow and the Donald Trump administration. The election of Trump, who had spoken admiringly of Putin and called for improved US-Russia relations, had raised hopes in the Kremlin. But Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says […]
Russia Violated Nuclear Treaty With Deployment Of New Missiles
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Paul Selva (left) confirmed longstanding suspicions that Russia’s new intermediate-range missile was operational. He told a House Armed Services Committee hearing this week that it can threaten almost all of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Russia has deployed new nuclear missiles and violated the […]