Washington, July 17 (IANS) President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled the most sweeping election reform agenda of his second presidency, combining the release of declassified intelligence with a series of executive actions and a renewed push for legislation that would tighten voting rules ahead of next year’s US midterm elections.In a rare prime-time address from the White House, Trump asserted that the United States faced an urgent election security crisis and outlined what he described as a c…
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Washington, July 17 (IANS) President Donald Trump accused China of orchestrating a wide-ranging campaign to interfere in US elections, alleging that Beijing sought to undermine his presidency, acquire millions of American voter records and conceal its activities through what he described as a cover-up inside the US intelligence community.In a nationally televised address from the White House, Trump announced what he called the immediate declassification of intelligence records relating to electi…
Washington, July 17 (IANS) Newly declassified US government records released by President Donald Trump’s administration show sharp internal disagreements within the American intelligence community over how to assess and report alleged Chinese efforts to influence the 2020 US presidential election.The documents include internal FBI emails, intelligence assessments and inter-agency correspondence that reveal officials disputed both the strength of available intelligence and how it should be presen…
Washington, July 17 (IANS) President Donald Trump has ordered the release of a sweeping collection of intelligence and law-enforcement records that he said expose Chinese acquisition of American voter data, foreign interference risks and serious weaknesses in the United States election system.“Tonight, I’m announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical intelligence, revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure,” Trump said in a nationally televised a…
Washington, July 17 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Thursday released newly declassified intelligence records that he said show China sought to undermine his presidency and influence the outcome of the 2018 midterm and 2020 presidential elections through a broad political and information campaign.Announcing the release from the White House, Trump said the intelligence records showed that Beijing wanted him defeated because of his administration’s policies towards China, including tariffs and…
Washington, July 5 (IANS) A congressional hearing this week renewed scrutiny of the CIA’s Cold War-era MKULTRA programme, with lawmakers and expert witnesses alleging that the agency secretly used universities, hospitals, prisons and other institutions across the United States to conduct mind-control experiments on unwitting human subjects while concealing the full extent of the programme for decades.The House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal…
Los Angeles, June 27 (IANS) Actor Michael Fassbender is set to return as Martian, the CIA field agent, who fell in love with a former target (played by Jodie Turner-Smith), in the upcoming season of the thriller series ‘The Agency’. In the new season his character will ensure her safety from harm even if it involves betraying his own country, reports ‘People’ magazine.The actor, 49, says he learned one thing about field agents before taking on the role in the series, Many of the CIA fiel…
Los Angeles, June 26 (IANS) Hollywood actor Seth Rogen is set to direct his next movie again. The actor is returning to direction after 12 years. His last directorial was ‘The Interview’, and the actor feels the film “almost started a war”, reports ‘Female First UK’.The 44-year-old actor has made several TV projects since he helmed the 2014 motion picture, but he felt a “little gun-shy” about directing a film after the huge controversy caused by The Interview, in which he and James Fra…
Chandigarh, June 11 (IANS) A 26-year-old male gym operator was shot dead at close range by two motorcycle-borne assailants in Haryana’s Hansi town on Thursday, police said. The victim, Kapil, was conducting an outdoor warm-up session for trainees when the crime occurred.The attackers fled the scene immediately after firing at least 10 bullets at him.Kapil, who sustained gunshot wounds to the head and back, was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead.Police officials said the motive behind t…
Washington, May 22 (IANS) Democratic lawmakers have accused the US Justice Department of failing to protect some of America’s most sensitive government sites from the sale of mobile phone location data that could be exploited by China, Iran and other foreign adversaries using artificial intelligence tools.In a sharply worded letter to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Martin Heinrich and Representative Sara Jaco…