Section: The Mercury News (USA)
Hit list exposes Russian hacking beyond US elections
By Raphael Satter, Jeff Donn and Justin Myers | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The hackers who upended the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton’s campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin,...
Special counsel’s office deems Manafort a flight risk
By Spencer S. Hsu | Washington Post Onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort keeps three U.S. passports with different identification numbers and submitted 10 passport applications in as many years, the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller disclosed in a new court filing Tuesday arguing that Manafort poses a significant flight risk. The...
Remember how Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner pushed for Trump to hire Paul Manafort?
For the past couple years, Ivanka Trump has claimed at various times that she has had no major role in her father’s presidential campaign and that she tries to stay out of politics now that she’s a senior White House advisor. Related Articles With Scaramucci debacle, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner again prove they are lousy personnel...
What do latest Trump dossier developments mean?
Aaron Blake | Washington Post The Washington Post broke the story Tuesday night that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped pay for that now-famous dossier of research on President Donald Trump. Related Articles Opposition leader urges boycott of Kenya election Eminem wins case against political party over ‘Lose...
Trump’s company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators
By Tom Hamburger,,Rosalind S. Helderman and Adam Entous | The Washington Post WASHINGTON – Associates of President Donald Trump and his company have turned over documents to federal investigators that reveal two previously unreported contacts from Russia during the 2016 campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. In one case,...
Huntsman confirmed as ambassador to Russia
By Karoun Demirjian | Washington Post WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed Jon Huntsman as the next U.S. ambassador to Russia by voice vote Thursday, filling a critical diplomatic vacancy at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow. The former Utah governor, Republican presidential candidate and U.S. ambassador to Singapore and...
Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign
By Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman, Carol D. Leonnig and Adam Entous | Washington Post Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the...
Daily Stormer booted by GoDaddy after ‘glad she is dead’ post
A leading neo-Nazi website is losing its internet domain host after its publisher posted an article mocking the woman who was killed in a deadly attack at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. GoDaddy tweeted late Sunday that it has given The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move its domain to another provider because the site has violated the...
Twitter users are reporting Trump’s account for ‘threatening violence’ against North Korea
By Brian Fung | Washington Post Can a president be suspended from Twitter for threatening to attack another country? That’s what some Twitter users, including actor and former Barack Obama aide Kal Penn, are demanding, after President Trump tweeted Friday morning that U.S. “military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded,...
Analysis: Most Americans can’t find North Korea on a map
By Christopher Ingraham | Washington Post Only 36 percent of Americans were able to correctly identify North Korea on a map in a recent Morning Consult survey. The experiment, as reported by the New York Times, found that there’s a relationship between geographic knowledge and policy preferences. People who can locate North Korea are more...
