January 6, 2017

By NPR: Bernie Sanders thinks he has a pretty good idea why Hillary Clinton and Democrats lost in the 2016 election. “Look, you can’t simply go around to wealthy people’s …

By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! A day after calling WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a “sycophant for Russia,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said it’s clear Moscow tried to meddle in the U.S. …

By Lily Hay Newman, Wired: Questions about the Democratic National Committee hack and Russia’s alleged involvement have been swirling for months, and have intensified as the intelligence community prepares to brief …

By Mary Oppenheim, The Independent: In an unprecedented move, the President-elect’s team are reported to have demanded ambassadors appointed by Barack Obama to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day …

By Associated Press: For the first time, the Marine Corps has put three enlisted female Marines in a ground combat unit once open only to men, officials said Thursday. They …

By Ryan Browne, CNN: The Pentagon announced Thursday that four inmates were transferred from the Guantanamo Bay prison to Saudi Arabia, dropping the prison’s population to 55. Of those remaining, …

By Lucy Clarke-Billings, Newsweek: South Korea’s government has hired an officer to exclusively monitor U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s Twitter account. The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is particularly interested in …

By Drew Berquist: Since 2014 when remnants of Al-Qai’da and other extremist factions resurfaced as the Islamic State, or ISIS, they have seized the spotlight in the media.  Their violence and …

By Mike Furlong: We offer our readership a summary update on the Iraqi Military Coalition’s (IMC) nearly 11-week offensive operation to reclaim the city of Mosul, Iraq, from the Islamic …

By Rene Sotolongo: We’ve learned a lot about Hillary Clinton over the past year, and as the evidence against her continues to be revealed (and found), it is becoming clear …