Tag: US elections

• Friday, June 28th 2019 - 19:50 UTC

  US Representatives approve bill to return to paper ballots and avoid cyber attacks on voting machines

  

  US states would get US$600 million in federal grants to secure voting machines from cyber attacks under legislation passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday, with the money to be spent quickly so that upgraded equipment is in place by the Nov 3, 2020 national elections.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 08:29 UTC

  Trump to launch reelection bid on Tuesday in Orlando, Florida

  

  As President Donald Trump prepares to formally launch his re-election bid on Tuesday, his allies are trying to tamp down headlines that depict his campaign as trailing top Democrats, beset by withering leaks and unable to keep internal tensions from spilling into public view.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 08:47 UTC

  House Speaker Pelosi accused the Attorney General of lying to the US Congress

  

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday accused the top US law-enforcement officer of committing a crime by lying to Congress, escalating the showdown between Donald Trump's administration and the Democrats investigating him.

• Friday, April 26th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  US Former vice-president joins the Democratic presidential contest

  

  Former Vice President Joe Biden formally joined the crowded Democratic presidential contest on Thursday, betting that his working-class appeal and ties to Barack Obama’s presidency will help him overcome questions about his place in today’s increasingly liberal Democratic Party.

• Friday, March 8th 2019 - 08:25 UTC

  Trump's campaign manager sentenced to 47 months in prison; next week Manafort faces another conviction

  

  United States president Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison on Thursday for tax crimes and bank fraud. It was the stiffest sentence yet given to an associate of the president in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling - but significantly lighter than many expected for the 69-year-old political consultant. 

• Friday, October 19th 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Facebook's “war room” to combat fake news ahead of Brazil and US elections

  

  During the first round of Brazil's presidential election on 7 October, Facebook staff noticed something suspicious on the social network. A story posted to Facebook incorrectly claimed the election was delayed because of protests. The company's data scientists and operations team scrambled to pull down the misinformation before it went viral.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:20 UTC

  Hackers warn voting machines in the US pose security “serious risks”

  

  Voting machines pose “serious risks” to US security, hackers are warning. A report outlines major flaws in voting hardware, weeks before US mid-term elections. One ballot machine, used in 23 US states, carries a cybersecurity flaw that was reported over a decade ago, the hackers claim.

• Thursday, September 13th 2018 - 09:55 UTC

  Trump signs executive order punishing foreign countries or persons that meddle with US elections

  

  Under fire over his handling of Russian election meddling, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to strengthen election security by imposing sanctions on foreign countries or people who try to interfere in the US political process. The order, coming only eight weeks before congressional elections on November 6, drew immediate criticism from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers as too little, too late.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2018 - 09:49 UTC

  US Congress furious after Trump sides with Putin, saying “no Russian meddling in US elections”

  

  There has been a barrage of criticism in the United States after President Donald Trump defended Russia over claims of interference in the 2016 elections. At a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland, on Monday, Trump contradicted US intelligence agencies, saying Russia had no reason to meddle.

• Tuesday, March 27th 2018 - 15:21 UTC

  Data scientist Christopher Wylie: “The Brexit would not have happened without Cambridge Analytica”

  

  Christopher Wylie's specialty was to predict fashion trends before starting work at 17 for a Canadian politician, at 18 he participated in Obama's campaign to learn about his data management and later he helped to found Cambridge Analytica (CA), the consultant accused of misuse of data of about 50 million users of Facebook. However, Wylie said he feels regretful.