Russian hackers have targeted European government systems ahead of the EU parliament election, cybersecurity firm FireEye said Thursday. The company found that two state-sponsored hacking groups, APT28 and Sandworm, used spear phishing — the practice of sending out emails designed to look like they’re from a trusted party — in an attempt to obtain government […] Read more
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Democratic presidential contenders want Wall Street executives locked up for crimes committed on their watch — but former FBI Director James Comey, once the top prosecutor in Manhattan, said it might not be so easy. Comey, who served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the days […] Read more
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Former FBI Director James Comey on Friday said that he did not know if Democrats could obtain an unredacted copy of the Mueller report with a subpoena if the Department of Justice declined to release it. “I’m sure they can subpoena. They definitely can issue subpoenas for anything they want to the […] Read more
Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates “continues to cooperate with respect to several ongoing investigations,” special counsel Robert Mueller said in a court filing Friday. “Accordingly the parties do not believe it is appropriate” to move on to Gates’ sentencing phase, the filing in Washington, D.C., federal court said. The joint report from Mueller and […] Read more
The Democratic National Committee sent a clear message when it announced its 2020 convention would be held in Milwaukee: We don’t want a repeat of 2016. That year, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton lost Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes to Republican Donald Trump – marking the first time since 1984 that a GOP presidential candidate had won […] Read more
Top Republican National Committee donors huddled over the weekend at President Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to discuss crafting a 2020 message that will, in part, argue that minorities have thrived under his administration. In private meetings with donors, officials explained that the party would seek to appeal directly to black and Hispanic […] Read more
Sen. Bernie Sanders and his advisors have been meeting with potential South Carolina campaign staffers as the Vermont democratic socialist looks to pull off a win in the state’s 2020 presidential primary, four years after Hillary Clinton crushed him there, CNBC has learned. Sanders has been pushing to firm up his support among younger and […] Read more
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced President Donald Trump‘s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to serve 47 months in prison, a far shorter length of time than prosecutors in the case had argued for. The decision from federal judge T.S. Ellis in Virginia comes less than a week before Manafort’s second sentencing hearing in another […] Read more
Michael Bloomberg will not run for president in 2020, the billionaire businessman wrote in a statement posted online on Tuesday, ending months of speculation about the political future of one of the Democratic Party’s top donors. Bloomberg, a former mayor of New York, had been toying with the idea of a presidential run for months […] Read more
By Ott Ummelas When news broke last week that one of Europe’s largest money-laundering scandals in history had widened, Estonia’s justice minister had to tear up a speech and start over. “I wrote down my new thoughts half an hour ago,” Urmas Reinsalu, a member of the ruling coalition Isamaa party, told a conference on […] Read more
