American Election Meddling

Russia called its US ambassador back to Moscow for consultations on Wednesday after Joe Biden described Vladimir Putin as a "killer" who would "pay a price" for election meddling, prompting the first major diplomatic crisis for the new American president.

Beijing on Friday denied trying to meddle in US presidential election after American tech giant Microsoft said it had parried cyberattacks from overseas groups -- including from China -- against both the Republican and Democratic campaigns.

China is waging an unprecedented campaign to influence American public opinion as November congressional elections approach and presents the greatest long-term counterintelligence threat to the United States, U.S. security officials said on Wednesday.

China on Friday rejected US Vice President Mike Pence's charge that Beijing was meddling in American elections as "unwarranted" and "ridiculous".

On a late July day in 2016, Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president, stood at a lectern in Florida, next to an American flag, and urged a U.S. adversary to become involved in the election campaign and find tens of thousands of emails wiped from the server of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Describing the 2016 presidential polls in the US as the "first reality TV elections", former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has alleged Russian interference in the American elections was "unprecedented and more than alarming".

Not long after Marat Mindiyarov started working at the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll factory indicted by the US Justice Department on Friday, he began hearing about the coveted "Facebook Department." There, workers could earn more money and work alongside a younger, hipper crowd. But to gain entry, job candidates had to prove they cou...

US President Donald Trump on Friday held up the indictment of 13 Russians -- and no Americans -- for meddling in the 2016 election as vindication that his campaign team did not collude with Moscow.

A top Google executive has said the US internet giant has to do more to crack down on illegal content and misinformation, after American firms were grilled in Congress over Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.

American Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said on Sunday that "everybody knows" Russia meddled in the 2016 elections and now they were trying to "save face", despite US President Donald Trump refusing to say they did. Defending Mr Trump, Ms Haley said the US President confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin on the election meddling at their fir...

President Donald Trump believes Russia was not alone in interfering with the US elections and other countries such as China and North Korea too have meddled in American polls over the years, one of his top aides said on Sunday.

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he wanted to work "constructively" with Russia, including on cyber security, despite confronting Vladimir Putin over alleged meddling in last year's American elections.

Russia "meddled" in last year's presidential election as part of a decades-long effort to "undermine American democracy," CIA Director Mike Pompeo said.

Russians are watching with morbid fascination as the American political establishment struggles to get to the bottom of how and to what extent Russia - their country - meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Russia called its US ambassador back to Moscow for consultations on Wednesday after Joe Biden described Vladimir Putin as a "killer" who would "pay a price" for election meddling, prompting the first major diplomatic crisis for the new American president.

Beijing on Friday denied trying to meddle in US presidential election after American tech giant Microsoft said it had parried cyberattacks from overseas groups -- including from China -- against both the Republican and Democratic campaigns.

China is waging an unprecedented campaign to influence American public opinion as November congressional elections approach and presents the greatest long-term counterintelligence threat to the United States, U.S. security officials said on Wednesday.

China on Friday rejected US Vice President Mike Pence's charge that Beijing was meddling in American elections as "unwarranted" and "ridiculous".

On a late July day in 2016, Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president, stood at a lectern in Florida, next to an American flag, and urged a U.S. adversary to become involved in the election campaign and find tens of thousands of emails wiped from the server of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Describing the 2016 presidential polls in the US as the "first reality TV elections", former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has alleged Russian interference in the American elections was "unprecedented and more than alarming".

Not long after Marat Mindiyarov started working at the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll factory indicted by the US Justice Department on Friday, he began hearing about the coveted "Facebook Department." There, workers could earn more money and work alongside a younger, hipper crowd. But to gain entry, job candidates had to prove they cou...

US President Donald Trump on Friday held up the indictment of 13 Russians -- and no Americans -- for meddling in the 2016 election as vindication that his campaign team did not collude with Moscow.

A top Google executive has said the US internet giant has to do more to crack down on illegal content and misinformation, after American firms were grilled in Congress over Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.

American Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said on Sunday that "everybody knows" Russia meddled in the 2016 elections and now they were trying to "save face", despite US President Donald Trump refusing to say they did. Defending Mr Trump, Ms Haley said the US President confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin on the election meddling at their fir...

President Donald Trump believes Russia was not alone in interfering with the US elections and other countries such as China and North Korea too have meddled in American polls over the years, one of his top aides said on Sunday.

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he wanted to work "constructively" with Russia, including on cyber security, despite confronting Vladimir Putin over alleged meddling in last year's American elections.

Russia "meddled" in last year's presidential election as part of a decades-long effort to "undermine American democracy," CIA Director Mike Pompeo said.

Russians are watching with morbid fascination as the American political establishment struggles to get to the bottom of how and to what extent Russia - their country - meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.