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The Department of Justice inspector general has announced it will investigate the FBI over the use of a FISA court order to spy on a Trump campaign adviser, after the House Republican memo claimed the process was abused. The review will determine whether the FBI followed proper procedure when it obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance […]
J. Scott Applewhite/AP A new report from a Democrat-aligned group lays out the ways in which the House Intelligence Committee failed to conduct a thorough investigation into the President Donald Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia. The committee’s Republican majority voted to release their final report on Thursday, which officially closed their investigation. But the Moscow […]
AP Counterterrorism police are helping investigate the suspected poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Salisbury, southern England. Sergei Skripal and an unnamed woman were found collapsed on a bench on Sunday, and are in critical condition. Mark Rowley of London’s Metropolitan Police said officers would bring the case into the counterterrorism network “if necessary.” The […]
Nova Scotia’s Department of Community Services used faulty drug tests for years in hundreds of child protection cases, but the minister says the department will only review cases if families request it.
Twitter bots are bad enough by themselves, but it’s worse when they’re built using real info — and New York wants to clamp down. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has opened an investigation into Devumi, a company that sold over 3.5 million fake social network followers (primarily on Twitter) to celebrities and politicians. While bots […]
Two top-ranking Democrats in Congress are calling on the two largest social media platforms to help them again. This time, they want to know if Russian bots were behind the trending hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo. On Tuesday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO […]
The #ReleaseTheMemo social media campaign swelled last week as many, including Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, called for the memo to be released to the public. Now, two members of Congress are asking Twitter and Facebook to look into a potential Russian role in the viral spread of the hashtag campaign. The memo in question is […]
Russia has called for an investigation of all chemical incidents in Syria, as the US has ignored all evidence of terrorist involvement while portraying the allegations against Damascus, based on shady sources, as the truth. “All the ongoing attempts by the US to accuse the Syrian government of using chemical warfare agents in combat against […]
Published time: 17 Dec, 2017 20:34 Police in South Korea are investigating the death of four newborn babies, who died within 90 minutes of each other on the same intensive care ward in Seoul. The babies suffered from bloated stomachs and breathing difficulties before going into cardiac arrest, and passed away despite the best efforts […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Peter Dazeley) The Federal Communications Commission has again refused to help New York’s attorney general investigate impersonation and other fraud in public comments on the FCC’s net neutrality repeal. For the past six months, NY State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been “investigating who perpetrated a massive scheme to corrupt […]
