
Putin says Russia won’t expel US diplomats after all
Russia’s foreign minister had previously said Moscow was weighing the move in response to sanctions leveled by President Obama.
Russia’s foreign minister had previously said Moscow was weighing the move in response to sanctions leveled by President Obama.
In a conclusion that could raise further questions about Trump’s business conflicts of interest, the report also said that Putin saw Trump’s business background as beneficial.
A 13-page joint analysis by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI officially tied intrusions into the DNC to Russian hackers.
While the sanctions and expulsions can be undone with the stroke of a pen, Donald Trump may find it politically difficult to do so.
Aleksandr B. Vyarya thought his job was to defend people from cyberattacks until, he says, his government approached him with a request to do the opposite.
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday played down the ramifications of any Russian interference in the US election.
The president sanctioned Russian intelligence services and their top officials.
Vladimir Putin said he looked forward to “real steps to restore the framework of bilateral cooperation,” according to Donald Trump.
The president-elect has a 180-degree shift in attitude toward a nation that’s been viewed as America’s enemy since the end of World War II.
Also, Donald Trump’s aides said he isn’t ready to accept the finding by intelligence officials that Moscow attempted to help him win.
Even if it’s true, Donald Trump’s top aides said, the real estate mogul still won the White House fair and square.
Sen. John McCain said that multiple committees investigating the matter, rather than a single panel, would be inefficient.
WASHINGTON — Over the past four months, U.S. intelligence agencies and aides to President Barack Obama assembled a menu of options to respond to Russia’s hacking during the election, ranging from the obvious — exposing President Vladimir Putin’s financial ties to oligarchs — to the innovative, including manipulating the computer code that Russia uses in designing its cyberweapons.
Obama says he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in September, and told him to ‘‘cut it out.’’
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Senator Elizabeth Warren said she’s also worried about a president-elect who doesn’t seem to want to listen to US intelligence agencies.
Statements by Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan set up a potential conflict with Donald Trump in the early days of his administration.
Senators John McCain, Chuck Schumer and others said Sunday that the CIA’s report of Russia’s efforts in the election ‘‘should alarm every American.’’
Intelligence officials cited a growing body of evidence from multiple sources.
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EDITORIAL
Direct foreign interference in a US election is unacceptable, and both parties should want to get to the bottom of it.
It said the attacks included hacking the computers of the Democratic National Committee and other political organizations
Donald Trump has spoken highly of Vladimir Putin, and many Russian-Americans are left scratching their heads.
US officials see a broad covert Russian operation to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election.
Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s running mate, made the remarks on ABC’s “This Week.”
The FBI’s alert comes after a summer marked by the hackings of the Democratic National Committee’s e-mails and a Bitcoin exchange.
A Russian cyberattack that targeted Democratic politicians was bigger than it first appeared and breached the private e-mail accounts of more than 100 party officials and groups.
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First Democratic Party e-mails were hacked. Could the computers that manage the nation’s voting systems be next?