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Trump Tweets Facebook Was Always Against Him, Hints At Collusion With NY Times And Washington Post
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - 10:46am | 410Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) handed Congress 3,000 Russian-linked campaign ads last week to support ongoing investigations into the 2016 election. And President Donald Trump wasn’t too happy about it. After details of ad contents emerged Tuesday, confirming that some championed Trump and some...
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Your Quick, Handy Guide To The Grand Jury Investigation That Could Bring Down The President
Monday, August 7, 2017 - 2:00pm | 792The convening of a grand jury to look into Russia’s meddling in U.S. politics guarantees the issue will be a long, taxing drag on President Donald Trump’s already side-tracked agenda, his family and the keyboard he uses to vent on Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR). Though the grand jury’s...
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Trump Forced To Sign Sanctions Bill Against Russia; Reports Say President And Putin May Have Loopholes
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 12:07pm | 1001President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation passed overwhelmingly by Congress that slaps Russia with new sanctions and restricts the scandal-plagued president’s ability to weaken them. Under enormous pressure to sign the bill into law while a special prosecutor probes Trump’s...
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Feds Bust Reputed Bitcoin Baron In $4 Billion Scheme To Launder Drug Money, Ransomware, Bribes And Identity Theft Scams
Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 12:35pm | 689A Russian criminal mastermind used his bitcoin currency exchange to launder $4 billion from a vast network of interlocking syndicates engaged in public corruption, identity theft, ransomware extortion, dark web drug deals and a raft of other global cybercrimes, federal prosecutors allege. A grand...
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Jared Kushner Admits To 4 Meetings With Russians, Denies Campaign Collusion
Monday, July 24, 2017 - 11:37am | 760Jared Kushner is taking his turn in a hot seat increasingly crowded with people close to President Donald Trump, whose team is under investigation for ties to Russia and, in Kushner’s case, dealings with China. Before he was to meet privately with the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee...
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Trump Troubles Mean More Delays For GOP Agenda
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 10:59am | 849Republicans in Congress promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act on the first day of a new GOP administration. Five months later, the overhaul remains stalled, just one part of an agenda paralyzed by the probe into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Russia. The U.S. Senate is working on...
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State Election Officials Baffled By Report 39 States 'Hit' By Russian Hackers
Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 1:16pm | 643State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election systems. The June 13 Bloomberg story said that...
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The Oath's On You: Smirnoff Vodka Trolls Trump With Russian Ties
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 3:00pm | 602Ah, a blast of Smirnoff Vodka. It’s on the house. The joke, that is. It’s on the White House. In a rare shot of political satire by Madison Avenue, the makers of Smirnoff are mocking President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russian interests who purportedly hacked the American...
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Why Russia (And Probably Exxon) Want The U.S. To Lift Economic Sanctions
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 2:10pm | 728Word that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with the head of a Russian bank makes now a good time to look at the U.S. economic sanctions meant to punish the Kremlin for its invasion of the Ukraine, and why Moscow would go to great lengths to get them lifted. A slew of...
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Pleading The 25th: Critics Invoke Little-Known Amendment To Oust Trump
Monday, May 29, 2017 - 8:59pm | 841The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed after former President John F. Kennedy was assassinated to ensure a smooth transfer of power if a president dies or is considered unfit, has suddenly become a serious topic of conversation surrounding President Donald Trump. For all the talk of...