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Trump aide plagiarized in PhD dissertation

9 years 9 months ago
Conservative commentator Monica Crowley, who is slated to serve in a top national security communications role in Donald Trump's presidential administration, plagiarized thousands of words of her 2000 dissertation for her Columbia University Ph.D., a CNN KFile review has found.

Opinion: President Obama can help beat fake news

9 years 9 months ago
President-elect Trump's curious decision to take on the US intelligence community -- a community that will soon report to him -- over its assessment of Russian hacking and disinformation during the 2016 campaign has needlessly muddied the waters about a matter of national and international significance. "[T]here was absolutely no effect," said Trump after receiving a special highly-classified briefing, "on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines." But here's the problem: the intelligence community never publicly accused the Russians of tampering with voting machines or that the effort had decided the election. In any case, whether the hacking had any effect on a US domestic election is something that the intelligence community is not in the business of measuring.

Fox News host defends CNN reporter

9 years 9 months ago
Fox News host Shephard Smith defended CNN's Jim Acosta and CNN's reporting after President-elect Donald Trump called CNN "terrible" at his first press conference as President-elect.
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