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Ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort denies meeting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, denied Tuesday that he met secretly with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including weeks before the organization's 2016 publication of Democratic Party secrets hacked by Russian intelligence. Manafort rejected a report in The Guardian newspaper that he met ...
Defiant former Trump aide now says he'll probably cooperate with Mueller
A former Trump campaign aide spent much of Monday promising to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller, even throwing down the challenge to "arrest me," then backed off his defiance by saying he would probably cooperate in the end. Sam Nunberg said in ...
Justice Department's inspector general turns up anti-Trump FBI agents' missing text messages
The Justice Department's inspector general has recovered missing text messages from two FBI officials who sharply criticized Donald Trump, making them a flash point in the debate over the federal criminal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Inspector General Michael Horowitz told lawmakers ...
More texts turned over to Congress from FBI agent taken off Robert Mueller's Russia probe team
The Justice Department has turned over to Congress additional text messages involving an FBI agent who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team following the discovery of derogatory comments about President Donald Trump. But the department also said in a letter to lawmakers ...
Supreme Court agrees to rule on U.S. demand for Microsoft email data stored abroad
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a major privacy dispute between the Justice Department and Microsoft Corp over whether prosecutors should get access to emails stored on company servers overseas. The justices will hear the Trump administration's appeal of a lower court's ...
Jared Kushner used private email account for some White House business
U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, used his personal email account on dozens of occasions to communicate with colleagues in the White House, his lawyer said Sunday. Between January and August, Kushner either received or responded to fewer than 100 emails from White House ...
Trump calls son's Russia meeting 'standard campaign practice'
President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer, characterizing it as standard campaign practice and maintaining that "nothing happened" as a result of the June 2016 sit-down. The remarks in Paris during a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel ...
While serving as Oklahoma's attorney general, new Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt coordinated closely with fossil-fuel companies and special interest groups working to undermine federal efforts to curb planet-warming carbon emissions, newly released emails show. More than 7,500 pages were released under court order ...
Yahoo warns anew of email account breach, blames state-sponsored 'forged cookies'
Yahoo is warning users of potentially malicious activity on their accounts between 2015 and 2016, the latest development in the internet company's investigation of a mega-breach that exposed 1 billion users' data several years ago. Yahoo confirmed Wednesday that it was notifying users that their ...
Inspector general to probe Comey, Justice Department actions over Clinton email handling
The Justice Department's inspector general announced Thursday he will launch an investigation into the department and the FBI's actions in the months leading up to the 2016 election, including whether department policies were properly followed by FBI Director James Comey. Democrats have blamed Comey's handling ...
U.S. judge orders unsealing of application for Clinton email search warrant
A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the unsealing of the application used to obtain a search warrant that allowed the FBI to gain access to emails related to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's private server before the Nov. 8 election. U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel ...
