Russia carried out a comprehensive cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential election, an operation ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin that “aspired to help” elect Donald Trump by discrediting his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded in a report released today. The report depicts Russian interference as unprecedented in scale.
The plan would rely on authority under a 2006 law passed with bipartisan support. It would not preclude reimbursement, potentially meeting the Trump pledge to “build a wall and make Mexico pay for it.”
By the time we start on one fact check of Donald Trump’s tweet, he may have tweeted many others that are fact-checkable.
Several other people were injured and hospitalized after the attack in a baggage-claim area. The suspect — identified as Esteban Santiago, 26 — was taken into custody without any incident, said police, who did not immediately identify a motive for the shooting.
In her final official speech, an emotional first lady seemed to allude to concerns and fears about President-elect Donald Trump — without ever mentioning him by name.
A former Pentagon official expected the confirmation process for a diplomatic position to go relatively smoothly. But he learned that qualified candidates are often pawns in a political game — and important posts go unfilled.
Snow has been accumulating in Mississippi and Alabama, and by Saturday afternoon as much as 15 inches could be on the ground in parts of the Carolinas. If forecasts are right, Interstate 95 shutdowns are possible, if not likely.
Nuclear energy experts say they are baffled that the government is pursuing the case and took an old statute meant to discourage the spread of nuclear weapons and applied it to an export licensing matter.
SeaWorld said the animal, believed to be 36, was near the high end of a captive whale’s average life expectancy.
It’s a little early to definitively predict which titles will be worth watching, but we can hazard a few guesses.
"I kind of stopped thinking and just started acting,” Mickey Wilson said of the dramatic rescue at Arapahoe Basin in Colorado.
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