Top U.S. intelligence officials say they believe high-level Russian authorities were directly responsible for the hacking and leaking of documents from the Democratic National Committee in an effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. “We assess that only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized the recent election-focused data thefts and disclosures,” Director of National […]
The U.S. State Department has placed the son of al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden, Hamza bin Laden, on its terrorist blacklist. Hamza bin Laden, who is in his mid-20s, is reported to have become active in the al-Qaida terrorist community since his father was killed in a covert operation conducted by U.S. forces in 2011. […]
WASHINGTON — Dylann Roof, convicted of killing nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina church, told jurors there is nothing wrong with him psychologically and he has no regrets about what he did. The white supremacist chose to act as his own attorney during the sentencing phase of his trial, he said Wednesday, because he wanted […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, two weeks from taking office, is mocking his political opponents, criticizing the country’s mainstream news media and continuing to question the U.S. intelligence finding that Russia meddled in the presidential election. Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul turned Republican politician, asked in a string of Twitter comments Wednesday why the Democratic […]