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Steve Bannon and billionaire Guo Wengui accuse China of crimes against its people on massive scale
Exiled Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui and Steve Bannon Tuesday implicated China in the seemingly accidental death of tycoon Wang Jian, accusing Beijing of murdering, imprisoning and torturing its own people on a massive scale. The two men used a news conference held amid tight security ...
U.S. Senate panel said to be probing Trump ex-aide Steve Bannon's campaign activities
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is pursuing a wide-ranging investigation into former White House adviser Steve Bannon's activities during the 2016 presidential campaign, three sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters. The committee is looking into what Bannon might know about any contacts during the ...
Wilbur Ross spoke to immigration foe Steve Bannon about citizenship question on census, DOJ says
Wilbur Ross spoke with Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, before including on the 2020 census a question about people's citizenship, the Justice Department said in a court document that appears to contradict what the commerce secretary told Congress. The disclosure came in ...
Ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon sets up populist group to paralyze EU
Former Donald Trump political strategist Steve Bannon and a top associate have created a Brussels-based political organization intended to undermine, and ultimately paralyze, the European Union, Bannon and the associate told Reuters. In an interview and email conversations, Bannon and Raheem Kassam, a former chief ...
Poll finds many Britons reject May's Brexit strategy; some turn to Boris Johnson, far-right
Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than a third of voters would support a new right-wing political party committed to quitting the bloc, according to a new poll. May's political vulnerability was ...
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower slams Facebook chief's nonanswers to U.K. Parliament's questions
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie said Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg engaged in "a spectacle of nonanswers" in testimony before U.S. and European lawmakers that would increase the chances the social network will face regulation and further harm the trust of its ...
Cambridge Analytica shared data with Russia, sought to suppress U.S. black vote: whistleblower
Political consulting group Cambridge Analytica used Russian researchers and shared data with companies linked to Russian intelligence, a whistleblower told a congressional hearing on interference in the 2016 US election Wednesday. Christopher Wylie, who leaked information on the British-based firm's hijacking of data on millions ...
Cambridge Analytica's promotion of discontent tied to Steve Bannon
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie told House Democrats that Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former adviser, was behind much of the company's early focus on promoting public discontent to influence U.S. elections. "Cambridge Analytica was set up to be essentially a full-service propaganda machine," Wylie ...
Trump-linked data analysis firm taps 50 million Facebook profiles
A data analysis firm employed by President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign tapped the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission, allowing it to capitalize on the private social media activity of a large portion of the U.S. electorate, newspapers reported ...
Defiant former Trump aide now says he'll probably cooperate with Mueller
A former Trump campaign aide spent much of Monday promising to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller, even throwing down the challenge to "arrest me," then backed off his defiance by saying he would probably cooperate in the end. Sam Nunberg said in ...
Key Trump aide Hope Hicks clams up before House panel in Russia probe
President Donald Trump's longtime aide Hope Hicks is declining to answer questions about her time in the White House in a closed-door interview with the House intelligence committee. The panel is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and any contacts between Trump's campaign and ...
Top Democrat cites 'pattern' of U.S. administration refusals to testify in Russia probe
The top Democrat on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee described on Wednesday "a developing pattern" in which witnesses have declined to discuss events occurring after President Donald Trump's election in the panel's probe of Russia and the 2016 vote. "Some witnesses have been postponed, others ...
