Adm. Michael Rogers, head of the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command, spoke at a Wall Street Journal forum on Tuesday, and much of the focus of his discussion with WSJ Deputy Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Blumenstein was about joining government and business to fight the scourge of cyber crime. The number of hackers is "so large and diverse" that it's difficult to identify the perpetrators, he said, but roughly two-thirds of them are criminals looking to earn money from stealing personal information, and the remaining third are state-sponsored hackers.

But Blumenstein also asked Rogers about WikiLeaks, and the slow and steady leak of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's gmail account. "There shouldn't be any doubts in anybody's mind: This was not something that was done casually, this was not something that was done by chance, this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily," Rogers said. "This was a conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a specific effect."

The "nation state" in question is almost certainly Russia, which the U.S. intelligence community blames for the political hacking and distribution of internal Democratic emails throughout the campaign, evidently aimed at harming Clinton and by extension helping Donald Trump. James Bell, who used to work for WikiLeaks, notes just how unusual Rogers' statement is:

By the time WikiLeaks started dribbling out the mostly mundane Podesta emails, any mention of Clinton and emails generated unflattering headlines. Russia and WikiLeaks were not responsible for Clinton using a private server as secretary of state, of course, nor did they force FBI Director James Comey to step into the campaign 11 days before Election Day, and again nine days after that. Clinton said the second intervention, where Comey said two days before the vote that there was nothing incriminating in the emails after all, damaged her campaign more than the earlier letter to Congress. Peter Weber

Zsa Zsa Gabor, a Hungarian-born socialite who was one of the first celebrities famous for being famous, died of a heart attack on Sunday. She was 99, and had been in poor health since falling and breaking her hip in 2010. "We tried everything, but her heart just stopped and that was it," said husband Frederic von Anhalt. "Even the ambulance tried very hard to get her back, but there was no way." Gabor had been partly paralyzed since a 2002 car accident, suffered a stroke in 2005, and had most of right leg amputated in 2011 due to gangrene.

Born Sari Gabor in Budapest in 1917, Zsa Zsa (a family nickname) was the second of three sisters, all of whom became famous; Eva, who starred in the TV show Green Acres, died in 1995, and sister Magda died in 1997. Zsa Zsa married and divorced the first of her eight husbands (nine counting a very brief, maybe never legal 1982 shipboard marriage), a Turkish diplomat named Turhan Belge, while still in Hungary. After emigrating to the U.S. around World War II with her mother and sisters, Gabor gained fame in 1942 by marrying millionaire hotelier Conrad Hilton, with whom she had her only child, Francesca Hilton, who died in 2015. Her other husbands included actor George Sanders, businessman Herbert L. Hutner, and prolific inventor Jack Ryan.

Gabor played minor roles in movies and TV shows, but she was mostly famous for being herself, a wealthy, quick-witted socialite who was not afraid to be in on the joke. "The great aunt of Paris Hilton and a spiritual matriarch to the Kardashians and other tabloid favorites, she was the original hall-of-mirrors celebrity, famous for being famous for being famous," says The Associated Press. You can get a taste of her buoyant self-deprecation in this Late Show video from 1994, in which David Letterman and Gabor drive around Los Angeles eating fast food:

For more on Zsa Zsa through the ages, you can watch this brief AP remembrance. Peter Weber

President Obama said at a press conference Friday that when he met one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year, he told Putin to put a stop to hacking attacks on the Democratic National Committee. After that, Obama said, he "did not see further tampering of the election process."

But speaking on ABC's This Week on Sunday, interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile offered a different timeline while speaking with Martha Raddatz:

Raddatz: President Obama also said Friday that the cyber attacks stopped after he warned Putin at an international conference in September. You've been briefed on the party’s computer system. Is that right, they stopped?

Brazile: No, they did not stop. They came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly. We put up the very best cyber security — what I call infrastructure — to stop them, but they constantly — they came after us. [...] They came after us daily, hourly. And there were times when we thought they would penetrate us and we would have another breach. [ABC News]

Brazile demurred to say why Obama would claim the attacks stopped if they didn't — or whether she believes he was misinformed about the situation. "We never felt comfortable," she emphasized. "We didn't know what was coming next. And, you know, this is not just about computers. This is harassment of individuals, it's harassment of our candidates, harassment of our donors." Watch her comments in context below. Bonnie Kristian

Russia will veto a French-drafted United Nations resolution for neutral monitoring of the evacuation process in Aleppo, Syria, Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Sunday, "because this is a disaster."

Churkin framed his country's objection to the measure as a criticism of allowing monitors "to go to wander around the ruins of eastern Aleppo without proper preparation and without informing everybody about what is going to happen," and he argued "there could be another thing which could be adopted today by the Security Council which would accomplish the same goals" without specifying what that second option might be.

As a Security Council member, Russia can single-handedly kill the resolution. In Aleppo itself, the evacuation process — renegotiated on Saturday — stalled Sunday when six evacuation buses were burned. Bonnie Kristian

CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday grilled outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch about her July meeting with former President Bill Clinton, an impromptu conversation many argued seriously undermined her Justice Department's claim to impartiality in its investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while in office.

"Looking back, do you wish that, when he came over, you said, 'We really shouldn't talk; it would be really inappropriate'?" Tapper asked, and Lynch expressed worry over how the meeting was interpreted. "I do regret sitting down and having a conversation with him, because it did give people concern," she said. "And as I said, my greatest concern has always been making sure that people understand that the Department of Justice works in a way that is independent and looks at everybody equally."

Tapper later asked Lynch if she believed her meeting may have influenced electoral outcomes by limiting her options in directing FBI Director James Comey in the emails investigation, a suggestion Lynch denied. Watch their comments in context below. Bonnie Kristian

Five people were killed and nine injured in multiple shootings in and near Karak, Jordan, on Sunday, including an attack at a 900-year-old castle that is a popular tourist attraction. Among the dead was a woman visiting from Canada as well as four Jordanian police officers.

The shooters, some of whom have taken refuge and perhaps hostages inside the castle, have not been identified, and no terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the incident so far. The standoff at the castle may continue into the night; the fate of the gunmen at earlier attacks elsewhere in the city is presently unknown.

Jordan is an ally of the United States in opposition to the Islamic State and is usually comparatively safe from the extremist violence suffered in surrounding nations. Bonnie Kristian

The Electoral College will vote this Monday, and Saturday Night Live's Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon) is taking a page from 2003's Christmas-themed romantic comedy Love Actually to woo a Republican elector (Cecily Strong) away from supporting Donald Trump.

Where the movie's original scene saw The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln tell Keira Knightley he loves her using a series of cue cards, Clinton had a more serious message. "I know you're an elector," Clinton's cards say, and "you're supposed to vote for Donald Trump. But bish...he cray." Watch the full skit below. Bonnie Kristian

The 538 members of the Electoral College will convene in their respective states Monday to vote for the United States' next president, a process that is usually little more than a legal formality following the popular vote tally on Election Day. This year, however, last-ditch efforts are ongoing to convince at least 37 Republicans to become "faithless electors" who vote for someone other than President-elect Donald Trump, who lost the popular contest to Democrat Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.

Attempts to oust Trump in this manner are not expected to succeed. "I suspect literally no one voted for electors in November with the goal of empowering them as people to exercise independent judgment," explains Rob Richie of FairVote. "People voting for Trump wanted his associated electors to vote for him. Same with people voting for Clinton. So [I] think expecting them to act against that mandate now is a highly questionable position."

But whatever happens, don't expect to find out before the end of this year: The Electoral College votes will not be counted until Jan. 6 in a joint congressional session, at which point members of Congress may choose to challenge individual electors or statewide results. Bonnie Kristian