FBI Director James Comey pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
An election official checks a voter’s photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas.
The confusion started in the first hour of the first day of early voting in San Antonio last October.
Signs in polling places about the state’s controversial voter ID law contained outdated rules. Poll workers gave voters incorrect information. Lines were long 2014 full of people who were full of uncertainty.
Initial projections, which are usually very reliable in France, make Emmanuel Macron the front-runner in the first round of the French Presidential election with 23.7% of the vote.
Marine Le Pen came second with 21.7% of the vote.
The other two leading candidates, Francois Fillon and Jean-Luc Melenchon, appear to have come almost equal third, with about 20% of the vote each.
Alianza PAIS’s presidential candidate Lenin Moreno, left, and his running mate Jorge Glas smile end of the day of the presidential election, in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, April 2, 2017. (AP/Dolores Ochoa)
Progressive candidate and renowned disability activist from the ruling Alianza Pais party, Lenin Moreno, won the Ecuadorean presidential election Sunday.
Dick Cheney talks with daughter, Elizabeth, after arriving at the convention center on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia on Monday, July 31, 2000. (AP/Elise Amendola)
Former US Vice President and the man whose image appears in the dictionary by the word “neocon”, Dick Cheney criticized Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. presidential election, saying it could be considered an “act of war” against the U.S.
21st Century Wire says…
Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of ordering a ‘wire tap’ at Trump Tower prior to the Presidential Election. Yes, a ‘wire tap’. Sounds pretty unsophisticated in this day and age as a means of SIGINT in the post Snowden revelation era where there are numerous more ‘covert’ methods available to agencies.
The widow of Andrei Karlov Marina kisses her husband during a religious service for killed Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov inside the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
MOSCOW — While few might consider being a diplomat a life-threatening or even dangerous job, that trend may be quickly reversing — that is, at least for Russian diplomats.
Airing alongside "America's Next Top President" last year, the single season satire from CBS called "BrainDead" shined a spotlight on the left/right paradigm and the "Scanners"-like effect it has on the masses.
