Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win ...
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter. Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, accord..>> view originalTrump transition team for Energy Department seeks names of ...
The Trump transition team has issued a list of 74 questions for the Energy Department, asking officials there to identify which department employees and contractors have worked on forging an international climate pact as well as domestic efforts to cut the nation's carbon output. (Whitney Shefte/The Washington Post) Donald Trump’s transition team has issued a list of 74 questions for the Energy Department, asking agency officials to identify which employees and contractors have worked o..>> view originalSenate approves spending bill minutes before deadline, averting ...
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill on Nov. 16. (Andrew Harnik/Associated Press) The Senate voted late Friday night to approve a must-pass spending bill, ending the threat of a short-term government shutdown. The 63-to-36 vote to approve the year-end legislation came less than an hour before the midnight deadline. Democrats used a standoff over the year-end spending bill to appeal to the working-class white voters they lost to President-elect Donald Tr..>> view originalTrump says blacks who stayed home were 'almost as good' as those ...
President-elect Donald Trump said that African American voters stayed at home were "almost as good" as those who voted for him. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post) President-elect Donald Trump claimed Friday night that African Americans came through for him “big league” in the November election and said those who stayed home were “almost as good” as those who voted for him. Trump’s comments came during a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., the latest stop on an ongoing “thank you” tour of sta..>> view originalWashington state suing agrochemical giant over PCB pollution
By Gene Johnson December 9 at 9:43 PM SEATTLE — Washington has become the first U.S. state to sue the agrochemical giant Monsanto over pervasive pollution from PCBs, the toxic industrial chemicals that have accumulated in plants, fish and people around the globe for decades. The company said the case “lacks merit.” Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson, both Democrats, announced the lawsuit at a news conference in downtown Seattle on Thursday, saying they expect to win hundreds ..>> view originalThe Women's March on Washington says it has secured a starting ...
Workers build portions of the platform for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) Organizers of the most high-profile demonstration planned around the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump said that they have determined a meeting place to begin a march that is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of participants. The Women’s March on Washington, which is scheduled for the day after the Jan...>> view originalAfter divided Supreme Court allows Alabama execution, inmate ...
A man executed in Alabama heaved and coughed for 13 minutes before dying, raising ire over a drug critics have said should be banned. (Reuters) An Alabama inmate heaved and coughed during his execution Thursday night, a lethal injection process that lasted for more than half an hour, according to media witnesses. The lethal injection came after a deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court decided not to step in, but with four of the eight justices saying they would have stayed the execution, one shy o..>> view originalDonald Trump is actually a fascist
President-elect Donald Trump. (Darron Cummings/Associated Press) Michael Kinsley is a columnist for Vanity Fair magazine and a contributing columnist for The Post. Donald Trump is a fascist. When you call somebody a fascist, you can mean any number of things. Often, it means no more than “somebody I don’t like.” It is an all-purpose epithet, usable by anyone against everyone from university deans to Fox News anchors. For that reason, the label should be used sparingly — saved for s..>> view originalHuey helicopter makes 'precautionary landing' at Virginia high school
A military helicopter made a "precautionary landing" at a Northern Virginia high school Friday evening, according to Joint Base Andrews. The UH-1N Huey, ...>> view original
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win ... and other top stories.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment