Trump Team Knew Flynn Was Under Investigation Before He Came to White House Michael T. Flynn told President Trump’s transition team weeks before the inauguration that he was under federal investigation for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for Turkey during the campaign, according to two people familiar with the […]
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Payoffs From Putin to Trump? McCarthy Says No, He Was Just Kidding Did you hear the one about the Russians paying off the future president of the United States? It seems House Republicans have. Their two highest-ranking members on Wednesday walked into a firestorm of their own making, negotiating the […]
Robert Mueller, Former F.B.I. Director, Is Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation The Justice Department appointed Robert S. Mueller III, a former F.B.I. director, as special counsel on Wednesday to oversee the investigation into ties between President Trump’s campaign and Russian officials, dramatically raising the legal and political stakes in […]
Syria Denies Burning Bodies of Political Prisoners Syria Denies Burning Bodies of Political Prisoners:- The Syrian government forcefully rejected on Tuesday accusations by the United States that the bodies of thousands of political prisoners had been disposed of in a crematory at a prison near Damascus, describing the allegations as […]
Can Donald Trump Be Trusted With State Secrets? On Monday, Americans learned that President Trump shared with the Russians highly classified intelligence about the United States fight against the Islamic State. Mr. Trump jocularly passed secrets obtained by Israel to Kremlin representatives in a White House meeting last week, blithely […]
At a Besieged White House, Tempers Flare and Confusion Swirls The bad-news stories slammed into the White House in pitiless succession on Tuesday, leaving President Trump’s battle-scarred West Wing aides staring at their flat screens in glassy-eyed shock. The disclosure that Mr. Trump divulged classified intelligence to Russian officials that […]
Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly […]
Strict North Carolina Voter ID Law Thwarted After Supreme Court Rejects Case The Supreme Court on Monday refused to revive a restrictive North Carolina voting law that a federal appeals court had struck down as an unconstitutional effort to “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision.” The court’s decision not to […]
Hillary Clinton Starts Onward Together, a New Political Group Hillary Clinton on Monday announced the launch of Onward Together, a new political group aimed at advancing progressive causes by harnessing grass-roots opposition to President Trump’s policies. Mrs. Clinton, 69, who until recently had maintained a low profile after her loss […]
Trump Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia, in Break With Ally, Officials Say President Trump boasted about highly classified intelligence in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador last week, providing details that could expose the source of the information and the manner in which it was collected, […]
