Clinton Family Foundation May Pose Campaign Risks
The foundation launched by former President Bill Clinton more than a decade ago has battled HIV and AIDS in Africa, educated millions of children and fed the poor and hungry…
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Clinton Donors For Foundation And Politics Overlap
Since its creation in 2001, the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has raised close to $2 billion from a vast global network that includes corporate titans, political donors, foreign…
Demands To Censor Twitter Soar
If loose lips sink ships, what can tweets do? Enough to worry governments, apparently. Governments around the world made 796 demands to take down content on Twitter in the last…
Egypt Moves Toward Retrial for 2 Jailed Al Jazeera Journalists
CAIRO — Egypt began moving on Sunday toward a retrial of two journalists whose yearlong incarceration has drawn widespread condemnation from Western governments and human rights groups. Defense lawyers raised…
Obama Budget Sets Up Battle With GOP-Controlled Congress
After a year of relative peace in Washington’s budget battles, President Barack Obama will lay out a $4 trillion budget on Monday that needles Republicans with proposals for higher taxes…
Read The Daily Blog Of Greece’s ‘Erratic Marxist’ Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis, a self-described “erratic Marxist,” is the new finance minister of Greece under the just-elected Syriza-led government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. In the coming weeks, Varoufakis will be…
Bill Gates, Other Donors Pledge Record Amount To Vaccinate Poor Children
BERLIN (AP) — Governments and private donors, among them the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have pledged a record $7.5 billion to replenish a global vaccination program for the poor….
The Problem With David Cameron’s ‘Schizophrenic’ Cyber Security Request
Last week, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron asked for the U.S government’s help in preventing companies like Facebook and Google from encrypting messages, but Defense One technology editor Patrick Tucker…
Sanctions guru tapped for CIA job
As Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Treasury Department, Cohen played an important role in developing sanctions on a number of foreign governments, including Russia, Iran and North…
Internet Explorer must die
Company IT departments and governments tend to be very slow to adopt new browser versions, particularly if they build custom applications for them. That’s why the most-used version of Internet…