Section: The Mercury News (USA)
Prosecutors: Manafort wrote op-ed with colleague in Russia
By Chad Day and Eric Tucker | Associated Press WASHINGTON — In an attempt to burnish his public image and leave no fingerprints behind, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort recently enlisted a longtime Russian colleague to help him ghostwrite an op-ed. Related Articles Trump’s tweet raises obstruction specter, worries...
84-year-old doctor who refuses to use computer loses medical license
By Marwa Eltagouri | Washington Post Aside from a fax machine and landline telephone, there isn’t much technology in the office of physician Anna Konopka, 84. Instead, her patients’ records are tucked into two file cabinets, which sit in a tiny office next door to her 160-year-old clapboard house in New London, New Hampshire. Records...
Mueller’s swift moves signal mounting legal peril for the White House
By Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Karen Deyoung | Washington Post WASHINGTON – After six months of work, special counsel Robert Mueller III has indicted two top advisers to President Donald Trump and accepted guilty pleas from two others in exchange for their cooperation with his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election – a sign...
Ivanka Trump was instrumental in Michael Flynn becoming national security advisor, report says
Friday brought another reminder that Ivanka Trump has massively downplayed her role in her father’s presidential campaign, transition and White House administration. Related Articles Former Trump adviser Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI about Russian contacts; Jared Kushner implicated How the Flynn guilty plea is playing in the media...
Ivanka Trump was instrumental in Michael Flynn becoming national security advisor, report says
Friday brought another reminder that Ivanka Trump has massively downplayed her role in her father’s presidential campaign, transition and White House administration. Related Articles Former Trump adviser Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI about Russian contacts; Jared Kushner implicated How the Flynn guilty plea is playing in the media...
Pentagon prepares for the coming drone war
By Christian Davenport | Washington Post More than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary device that threatens to wreak havoc on American troops: the drone. Largely a preoccupation of hobbyists and experimenting companies, the...
Trump calls Putin sincere, ex-US intelligence heads ‘hacks’
By Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin | Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Days before returning home from a whirlwind trip to Asia, President Donald Trump was back on the defensive over Russian election meddling, saying he considers President Vladimir Putin’s denials sincere, dismissing former U.S. intelligence officials as “political...
Gag order issued in Manafort-Gates Russia investigation
By Spencer S. Hsu | Washington Post WASHINGTON – The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and business partner Rick Gates imposed a gag order Wednesday in the case ordering all parties, including potential witnesses, not to make statements that might prejudice jurors. U.S. District Judge Amy...
Russian hackers had hundreds of targets, not just the DNC
By Raphael Satter, Jeff Down and Justin Myers | Associated Press WASHINGTON — It wasn’t just Hillary Clinton’s emails they went after. The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election last year had ambitions that stretched across the globe, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense...
Poll finds strong support for Russia investigation
By Emily Guskin, Matt Zapotosky | Washington Post WASHINGTON – More than twice as many Americans approve as disapprove of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible coordination between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds, indicating that the conservative...
