Dan Boylan

Tension mounts between Donald Trump and Tehran over Iran nuclear deal

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Monday the European signatories of the Iranian nuclear deal should convince President Trump not to exit the controversial accord.

April 23, 2018

Western Hemisphere alliances at risk in NAFTA renegotiations

The United States risks damaging decades of constructive relationships with its Western Hemisphere allies if it fails to positively renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), leading Inter-American policy makers warned Capitol Hill on Friday.

April 20, 2018

Eyeing Russia probe, Democrats try to undercut Trump’s pardon powers

The president's broad constitutional prerogative to issue pardons is under extraordinary attack from Democrats in Congress and the states as tensions mount over the fate of a string of investigations linked to the 2016 Russian election-hacking scandal.

April 20, 2018

Michael Cohen drops ‘Steele dossier’ lawsuits against BuzzFeed, Fusion GPS

President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen withdrew a pair of defamation lawsuits Wednesday against BuzzFeed and the opposition research firm Fusion GPS over the controversial Steele dossier.

April 19, 2018

Senate Intelligence Committee announces hearing date for Gina Haspel, CIA director nominee

The Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a public confirmation hearing early next month to consider President Donald Trump's pick to be the next CIA director -- current Deputy Director of the agency Gina Haspel -- the panel has announced.

April 19, 2018

James Comey’s ‘Higher Loyalty’ book gets anger, praise on Capitol Hill

As the publicity blitz for James Comey's new book hits overdrive, mixed reaction has poured in from Capitol Hill, with some lawmakers defending the fired FBI director and others warning he could soon face criminal charges for writing his tell-all tale.

April 18, 2018

Pavel Durov’s Telegram messaging app bane of Russian, Iranian governments

Security officials in Russia and Iran, two of the world's tightest-controlled media markets, are scrambling to get control of the cloud-based messaging service Telegram, whose privacy and anti-hacking encryption features have made it the communications tool of choice in a growing number of repressive societies.

April 17, 2018

James Comey’s full Trump memos remain sealed for now

The Department of Justice has missed a deadline to provide GOP congressmen full copies of the infamous memos fired FBI Director James B. Comey composed about his conversations with President Trump, then used in his new tell-all bombshell book "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership."

April 17, 2018

Boris Johnson defends U.K. role in Syria strikes

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson defended the U.K. government's decision to join America and France in attacking Syria to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad for the suspected use of chemical weapons -- amid a growing debate in London that Parliament was not consulted first.

April 15, 2018

U.N. Security Council rejects Russian bid to condemn U.S.-led strikes on Syria

The United Nations Security Council rejected a Russian resolution that would condemn "aggression" by the U.S. and its allies against Syria on Saturday.

April 14, 2018

Pentagon: U.S. airstrikes ‘hit the heart’ of Syria’s chemical weapons program

Coordinated U.S, French and British airstrikes against targets in Syria overnight will set the country's chemical weapons capability back "for years," according to the Pentagon.

April 14, 2018

James Mattis: Strikes send ‘clear message’ to Syria’s ‘murderous lieutenants’

Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said U.S.-led missile strikes launched Friday night in Syria were "directed at the Syrian regime" and have "sent a clear message" to President Bashar Assad and his "murderous lieutenants."

April 13, 2018

U.S., allies launch missile attack on Syria in retaliation for using chemical weapons on civilians

The U.S. launched missile strikes on Syria Friday night in coordination with Britain and France in retaliation for Syria's chemical-weapons attack on civilians last weekend.

April 13, 2018

Silicon Valley sees D.C. comprehension gulf after Zuckerberg grilling

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's marathon two-day command performance before two congressional panels has been met with a wave of worry from the tech industry that Washington does not understand the world of social media well enough to regulate it.

April 12, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg pressed to explain why Facebook appears to censor conservative content

Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg denied allegations that Facebook censors content from supporters of President Donald Trump and conservatives during a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

April 11, 2018

Zuckerberg admits regulation of the social-media industry is likely ‘inevitable’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted Wednesday that government regulation of the social-media industry he helped create is "inevitable."

April 11, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg on hot seat again for day two of congressional testimony

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday tried to fend off charges that his monolithic social media platform has an anti-conservative bias, while acknowledging at the end of two days of close questioning on Capitol Hill that he sees clear signs lawmakers intend to regulate the troubled industry he helped create.

April 11, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for Facebook abuses

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced off against senators Tuesday, acknowledging growing pains as his company went from dorm-room project to internet colossus that now faces a crisis of confidence after mishandling users' data and seeing its platform abused by Russian operatives who meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

April 10, 2018

Zuckerberg denies consulting ‘dopamine feedback loop’ experts to make Facebook addictive

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday afternoon batted back long-standing fears from social media opponents that his firm and others in Silicon Valley program their products to addict users.

April 10, 2018

Zuckerberg admits Silicon Valley an ‘extremely left-leaning place’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that Silicon Valley is an "extremely left-leaning place" but that he tries to make sure his firm doesn't "have bias in the work that we do."

April 10, 2018