Top Russian Official: US Meddling in Russian Presidential Election

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the U.S. has a “rich tradition” of interfering in the elections of other nations.

Jake Johnson
By Jake Johnson
Russian President Vladimir Putin, background center, speaks during a massive rally in his support as a presidential candidate at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, March 3, 2018. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

As U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election continues to intensify, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the state-run RIA news agency on Monday that the U.S. is actively attempting to interfere in his country's upcoming presidential election. "The Interfax news agency

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Hernandez Declared Honduran President-Elect in Scandal-Plagued Election

Opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla has accused the government of committing a major fraud and “whitewashing” of a corrupt electoral process.

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By teleSUR
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez gives a nationally broadcast speech from the presidential residence in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Dec. 4, 2017. (AP/Fernando Antonio)

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras or TSE has officially declared that lawyer and incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez has won the country's scandal-plagued presidential elections which resulted in weeks of unrest and accusations of fraud by the country's broad leftist popular forces who united behind contender Salvador

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NYT, AP Retract Claim That 17 US Intel Agencies Agree Russia Hacked US Elections

A claim that all of the U.S.’ major intelligence agencies had agreed that Russia interfered in last year’s election has been proven false. The claim has been the centerpiece of news coverage of “Russiagate,” indicating that much of what has been reported about the scandal has been flawed.

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By MintPress News Desk
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)

NEW YORK-- For nearly a year, the news media in the United States has been completely and utterly dominated by one story above all the rest – Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, also known as “Russiagate.” The firestorm first began when Hillary Clinton - darling of the U.S. intelligence community, the mainstream

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Nation’s Strictest: Texas Voter ID Law Led To Fears And Failures In 2016 Election

Efforts to implement the nation’s strictest voter ID requirements — a solution in search of a problem, according to one critic — foundered amid court defeats, confusion and at least one giant oversight.

Jessica Huseman
By Jessica Huseman

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. The presidential election of 2016

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Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno Defeats Right-Wing Banker In Presidential Election

Moreno who has been wheelchair bound after being shot and paralyzed in 1998, is well known for his advocacy work for people with disabilities and supporting public education.

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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. With 99 percent of the official vote counted, Lenin defeated former banker Guillermo Lasso, candidate for the right-wing CREO-SUMO alliance, with 51.16 percent to 48.84 percent, according

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Dick Cheney: Russian Interference An “Act Of War”

Cheney’s accusation comes at a time when both the Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees are investigating possible Russian interference in the election that brought President Donald Trump to power.

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By ZeroHedge.com
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 Photo/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. "There’s no question there was a very serious effort made by Mr. Putin and his government, his

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