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By Rachael Revesz Rep Steve King, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, is a chief proponent of the measure which was found to be likely illegal in a recent report Donald Trump was urged in a meeting to launch a large-scale, surveillance program of...

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama said Thursday the United States will retaliate against Russian hacking aimed at interfering in the US election. "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action,"...

WASHINGTON Yahoo said Wednesday personal data from over a billion users was stolen in a hack dating back to 2013 — twice as big as another breach disclosed just three months ago. In a huge blow to the struggling internet pioneer, Yahoo said it made the...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next the waning days of President Barack Obama’s administration, he and his wife, Michelle, hosted a farewell party, the full import of which no one could then grasp. It was...

Turkey's unprecedented crackdown on media brought the total number of jailed journalists worldwide to the highest number since the Committee to Protect Journalists began taking an annual census in 1990. As of December 1, 2016, there were 259 journalists in jail around the world. Turkey...

By Ricardo Lopez She filed reports of threats, bigotry with two Washington, D.C., agencies. State Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, DFL-Minneapolis, said Monday that she reported to Washington, D.C., authorities an incident from last week in which she said she was harassed and threatened by a cabdriver. In a...

The White House strongly suggested Monday that Donald Trump was the beneficiary of Russian meddling in the US election, pointing to Trump's own ties to Russia as evidence of Moscow's intentions. "You didn't need a security clearance to figure out who benefited from malicious Russian...

Former Prime Minister of Portugal António Guterres is set to be sworn in Monday, 12 December, as the next United Nations Secretary-General, succeeding Ban Ki-moon who steps down at the end of the month. Mr. Guterres, 67, was Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to...

In the post-truth world, a far-right embrace of social media threatens the broadcasting of truth. t-elect Donald Trump used social media profusely during his electoral campaign By:Ahmed Al Sheikh Ahmed Al Sheikh is the former chief editor of Al Jazeera Arabic. In the social media era, everybody...

President Barack Obama has requested a review of all cyberattacks that took place during the 2016 election cycle, the White House said Friday, amid allegations of Russian interference. "The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the...