Reporting from Budapest this week, it was impossible not to notice that, in the run-up to Sunday’s election, the streets of the Hungarian capital have come to resemble a far-right Facebook page, crammed full of posters and billboards that use… Read More ›
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Muted Response to Port Authority Attack Suggests New Yorkers Refuse to be Terrorized
In the immediate aftermath of the failed terrorist attack in New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal on Monday, there was a notable absence of panic, as New Yorkers absorbed the news that no one had been killed and quickly moved on… Read More ›
Trump Says He Divulged Intelligence to Russians Because He’s Such a Great Guy
Updated: 1:01 p.m. EDT Twelve hours after his national security adviser called a Washington Post report that he had shared highly classified information with Russia “false,” President Donald Trump chose not to do so, arguing instead that his office gives… Read More ›
Charlottesville Vigil Against Hate Outdraws White Supremacist Rally
Hundreds of protesters gathered for a candlelit “vigil against hate” on Sunday night in Charlottesville, Virginia, one day after a smaller number of white supremacists carrying torches had rallied at the same spot — around a statue of Robert E…. Read More ›
Trump Threatens Comey With Secretly Recorded “Tapes” of Their Conversations
Updated: 5:10 p.m. EDT Here’s your morning Impeachment Watch: The president of the United States, @realDonaldTrump, just publicly threatened to release secretly recorded tapes of his conversations with James Comey, the former FBI director he fired this week. James Comey better… Read More ›
Russia’s Top Diplomat Enjoyed His Oval Office Visit, and Has the Photographs to Prove It
Last Updated: Thursday, 11:04 a.m. EDT Russian officials, at least, seem to be enjoying the turmoil that’s engulfed Washington since last night, when President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey, to derail his investigation into possible collusion between… Read More ›
Macron Trounces Le Pen, Halting Advance of Far-Right in France
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There Are No “Macron Leaks” in France. Politically Motivated Hacking Is Not Whistleblowing.
Here’s some news for the alt-right activists in the United States behind a disinformation campaign aimed at getting Marine Le Pen elected president of France by spreading rumors about her opponent, Emmanuel Macron: The French do not much like having… Read More ›
Marine Le Pen Flees Hecklers as Her Odds of Victory Shrink in France
Fears of a victory for the extreme Right in the French presidential election appeared to recede further on Friday, as the campaign drew to a close with Marine Le Pen of the National Front trailing Emmanuel Macron, the former economy… Read More ›
Le Pen Aides Claim Lifting Words From Defeated Rival’s Speech Is Not Plagiarism
The morning after Marine Le Pen was caught using stirring language in an address to supporters that was copied straight from a speech given two weeks ago by François Fillon, a defeated rival, her campaign aides claimed that the uncredited… Read More ›