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What does Russia-sponsored political influence look like on Facebook? An Associated Press analysis of the content on a now-shuttered Facebook page called “Being Patriotic” shows it’s colored with words like “illegal,” ”country” and “American” and phrases like “illegal alien,” ”Sharia law” and “Welfare state.” “Being Patriotic” was among 470 pages […]

Questions about possible collusion with Russians interfering in the presidential election have plagued Donald Trump’s administration since November. The issue has continued to make headlines partly because more details about previously undisclosed meetings between top Trump campaign officials and Russian officials have emerged over the past several months. From multiple […]

Notable events in the dispute over the Dakota Access oil pipeline. ——— Dec. 2014 — Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners applies to the federal government to build the 1,200-mile, $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline to carry half a million barrels of North Dakota oil daily through the Dakotas and Iowa to […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan affirms his support for the First Amendment amid the president’s threats to yank NBC’s broadcast license. Ryan told journalists Thursday, “I’m a constitutional conservative, I’m for the First Amendment.” The First Amendment to the Constitution protects the freedom of the press. Ryan added, “I don’t always […]

An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three young children — all of whom were born in captivity — were rescued on Wednesday, five years to the day since the couple was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, ABC News has learned. Caitlan Coleman, 31, and her husband Joshua […]

President Donald Trump said Thursday the federal government cannot keep the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Puerto Rico “forever”, even as the U.S. territory continues to reel from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria in September. “We cannot keep FEMA, the Military, the First Responders, who have been amazing […]

The U.S. Army has scheduled a court martial hearing for Monday where Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is expected to enter a plea in his desertion case. Bergdahl “has requested via defense counsel to enter a plea with the court on Monday,” U.S. Army Forces Command said in a scheduling statement today. […]

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THE TAKE with ABC News’ MaryAlice Parks Every American president has sparred with the press and fought back against stories unflattering or unfair. But no sitting president has in decades suggested media organizations should be shut down or that the federal government should consider curtailing their content or reach. Time […]

Donald Trump’s ongoing war with the media over “fake news” escalated on Wednesday with the president calling for networks, and specifically NBC, to have their licenses revoked over reporting what he called “pure fiction.” And one Republican senator inserted himself in the middle of the fight Wednesday evening. Trump took […]