Section: The Mercury News (USA)
Trump was warned not to congratulate Putin. He congratulated Putin.
By Carol D. Leonnig, David Nakamura and Josh Dawsey | Washington Post WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday on his reelection, including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating “DO NOT...
Zuckerberg asked to testify about data usage
By Danica Kirka and Gregory Katz | Associated Press LONDON — Leading Democrats in the Senate are asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear and answer questions about the how personal data is used by the company. Earlier Tuesday, the chairman of the U.K. parliamentary media committee, Damian Collins, said his group has repeatedly asked...
Kremlin: Trump congratulates Putin on re-election
By Anton Troianovski | Washington Post MOSCOW – President Donald Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election victory in a phone call on Tuesday, the Kremlin said. The White House confirmed that the call took place but had no immediate comment on the Kremlin’s characterization of it. Some world leaders have...
FAQ: What’s up with Cambridge Analytica and Facebook?
By Philip Bump | Washington Post Late on Friday, Facebook made an unexpected announcement: The data firm Cambridge Analytica, hyped as integral to President Donald Trump’s election, was suspended from the social network for using data collected improperly from Facebook users. Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and...
Putin wins easily in fraud-tainted Russian vote
By Vladimir Isachenkov and Jim Heintz | Associated Press MOSCOW — Early results and an exit poll showed that Vladimir Putin handily won a fourth term as Russia’s president Sunday, adding six years in the Kremlin for the man who has led the world’s largest country for all of the 21st century. The vote was tainted by widespread reports...
Thiessen: What Trump needs to know before meeting with Kim Jong Un
WASHINGTON — With the nomination and likely confirmation of Mike Pompeo as secretary of state, President Trump will soon have a trusted adviser who can prepare him for his upcoming summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Pompeo’s first job is to make sure Trump understands one thing going into those talks: North Korea has no plans to...
Cord cutters’ choice: Streaming TV alternatives spring up in Netflix’s shadow
The popularity of cutting the cord to traditional cable TV bundles isn’t just evident in the number who have done it —13.5 million people by 2017, according to MoffettNathenson Research. It’s also obvious in the individual streaming subscriptions now being offered, with more options for viewing different genres of films and TV shows....
UK expels 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning
BY JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA | The Associated Press LONDON — Britain announced Wednesday it will expel 23 Russian diplomats — the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War — and break off high-level contacts with the Kremlin over the nerve-agent attack on a former spy and his daughter in an English town. Prime Minister Theresa May told...
The Latest: UK expelling 23 Russian diplomats over spy spat
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England (all times local): 12:50 p.m. Britain is expelling 23 Russian diplomats after the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy — the single biggest such expulsion since the Cold War. Prime Minister Theresa May told the House of Commons on Wednesday that Russia has...
Roger Stone claimed contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2016, according to two associates
By Tom Hamburger,Josh Dawsey,Carol D. Leonnig and Shane Harris | The Washington Post In the spring of 2016, longtime political operative Roger Stone had a phone conversation that would later seem prophetic, according to the person on the other end of the line. Stone, an informal adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, said he had learned from...
