Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, said Facebook officials told Senate staff Wednesday that the ads purchased by Russians urged users to "Like" certain political groups -- which then led to political messages flooding their Facebook news feeds.
Senior Navy officials told a congressional panel Thursday they were "shocked" by the recent spate of Navy collisions in the Pacific, and they vowed to fix the underlying problems that may have caused four major incidents this year.
Vanity Fair released its 2017 International Best-Dressed List Wednesday, featuring movie stars, musicians and even a few politicians and their family members.
Newly minted FBI Director Chris Wray vouched on Thursday for the independence of former FBI Director Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Facebook acknowledged this week that it had unwittingly sold $100,000 worth of political ads on its site to a Russia company which has done pro-Kremlin work in the past. It's not clear how extensive this effort was but the development comes amid the ongoing special counsel probe led by Robert Mueller into Russia interference in the 2016 election and the possibility of collusion between the foreign power and the Trump campaign.
The Russia probes circling Donald Trump move ever closer to the President Thursday, as his own flesh and blood, in the person of his oldest son, appears for an interview before staffers of a key congressional committee.
The US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria said it killed two senior leaders who oversaw weapons research and drone operations for the terror group in airstrikes on Monday.
A trio of powerful House conservatives huddled with Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday to voice their dissatisfaction with his leadership, according to The Washington Post's Bob Costa.
President Donald Trump is unlikely to tap his top economic adviser Gary Cohn to chair the Federal Reserve, two sources close to the President told CNN.
President Donald Trump shocked Republican leadership in an Oval Office meeting Wednesday when he backed a deal pushed by Democrats to attach hurricane relief money to a shorter-term bump in the debt ceiling as well as keeping the government open.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday morning that he believes Republican President Donald Trump cut a debt ceiling deal with Democrats Wednesday because the President wanted to avoid a partisan fight as the country faced two devastating hurricanes.
Sen. Mark Warner said Facebook's disclosure that it sold political ads to a Russian troll farm was just the "tip of the iceberg" when it came to election interference on social media.
Former White House chief strategist Steven Bannon said the Catholic Church's support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, is economically driven and owes to the church's struggle to fill pews.
Steve Bannon said his former colleague and top White House economic adviser Gary Cohn should have resigned after publicly rebuking President Donald Trump for his response to racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
President Donald Trump surprised the leaders of his own party in Congress on Wednesday when he backed a deal pushed by Democrats to attach hurricane relief money to a shorter-term bump in the debt ceiling as well as keeping the government open, cutting off his own Treasury secretary to strike a deal.
Russian President Vladimir Putin teased US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday, saying that since the former ExxonMobil executive was given a Russian state honor in 2013 he "fell in with the wrong crowd."
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