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Why Fil-Ams should run for office in US polls

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 04 12:16 PM

A group is pushing Filipino-Americans in the United States to run for public office. Read more »

Trump admits friendship with China's Xi could be over

Christian Otton, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 27 09:33 AM

US President Donald Trump admitted his friendship with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping could be over on Wednesday as he accused Beijing of undermining his prospects in upcoming elections.   Read more »

FBI chief reiterates: Russia meddled in US election whatever Putin, Trump say

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 19 09:24 AM

WASHINGTON - FBI director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that the US intelligence community stands by its view that Russia interfered in the 2016 US election, despite Vladimir Putin's denial this week to President Donald Trump. Read more »

Top Russian minister calls US election meddling claims 'blabber'

Michelle Fitzpatrick and Joseph Schmid, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 17 11:11 PM

The minister's comments came a day after the US indicted 13 Russians for running a secret campaign to sway the American vote. Read more »

Trump accuses FBI, Justice Dept of politicizing Republican memo

Susan Heavey, Reuters
Posted at Feb 02 11:19 PM

Trump has complained about his treatment by federal investigators probing possible collusion between his campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 election. Read more »

Former Trump adviser Page met Russian officials in 2016 Moscow trips

Patricia Zengerle, Reuters
Posted at Nov 07 01:02 PM

WASHINGTON - Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump, testified to U.S. lawmakers that he met with a Russian deputy prime minister on two trips to Moscow in 2016 and consulted with senior Trump campaign staff about one visit. Read more »

Ex-British spy paid $168,000 for Trump dossier - U.S. firm

Mark Hosenball, Reuters
Posted at Nov 02 10:35 AM

WASHINGTON - A Washington research firm paid a former British spy's company $168,000 for work on a dossier outlining Russian financial and personal links to Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, the U.S. firm said in a statement on Wednesday. Read more »

Clinton accuses WikiLeaks of blunting impact of crude Trump tape

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 16 10:26 AM

SYDNEY - Hillary Clinton Monday accused WikiLeaks of working with Russia to deflect attention away from an infamous tape of Donald Trump bragging about groping women in the run-up to the US presidential election. Read more »

'Trump dossier' on Russia links now part of special counsel's probe: sources

Mark Hosenball, Reuters
Posted at Oct 05 10:21 AM

WASHINGTON - The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy's dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Donald Trump's campaign and associates, sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters. Read more »

Trump using campaign, RNC funds to pay legal bills from Russia probe -sources

Karen Freifeld and Ginger Gibson, Reuters
Posted at Sep 20 08:41 AM

NEW YORK - U.S. President Donald Trump is using money donated to his re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee to pay for his lawyers in the probe of alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Read more »

Russia-based operation bought thousands of divisive ads on Facebook

Joseph Menn and David Ingram, Reuters
Posted at Sep 07 08:13 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it had found that an influence operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of ads promoting divisive social and political messages in a two-year-period through May. Read more »

Trump blasts states for refusing to hand over voter data

Reuters
Posted at Jul 02 08:34 AM

President Donald Trump lashed out on Saturday at the growing number of states refusing to give voters' names, addresses and sensitive personal information to a commission he created to investigate alleged voter fraud. Read more »

Russia's Putin denies having compromising information on Trump

Reuters
Posted at Jun 05 09:38 AM

WASHINGTON - Russian President Vladimir Putin strongly denied he had any compromising material about US President Donald Trump in a televised interview broadcast on Sunday. Read more »

Obama to say goodbye in last presidential speech

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 10 02:37 PM

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama closes the book on his presidency Tuesday, with a farewell speech in Chicago that will try to lift supporters felled by Donald Trump's shock victory. Read more »

Trump says hacking had 'no effect' on his election

Paul Handley, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 07 04:06 PM

Donald Trump asserted Friday that hacking did not sway the US election, after a briefing on an intelligence report that blamed Russia's Vladimir Putin for a cyber campaign to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House. Read more »

Trump to meet US spy chiefs to get Russian hacking 'facts'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 30 05:17 PM

PALM BEACH - US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday responded to a slew of US election related sanctions against Russia with a call for the country to "move on" and a conciliatory pledge to meet US spy chiefs he has harshly criticized. Read more »

Obama: We are rooting for Trump's success

Jojo Pasion Malig, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 10 02:23 AM

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday urged all Americans to unite behind President-elect Donald Trump. Read more »

Trump's win causes shockwaves worldwide

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 10 01:35 AM

The victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election came as a surprise both at home and abroad. Read more »

USA votes for its 45th President

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 10 12:11 AM

Republican candidate Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president of the United States of America in a tight race against Democrat Hillary Clinton on November 8, 2016. Read more »

At under $5 each, Trump's votes came cheap

Ginger Gibson and Grant Smith, Reuters
Posted at Nov 09 06:12 PM

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump pulled off one of the biggest upsets in American political history when he toppled Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday - and he did it using far less cash than his rival. Read more »