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Civil rights lawyer Margaret Ratner Kunstler seen as Roger Stone's possible WikiLeaks link
Tucked into last week's indictment of Roger Stone, the brash longtime confidante of President Donald Trump, was a fleeting reference to an attorney who had the ability to contact WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Prosecutors wrote that an email from Stone, seeking dirt on Democratic presidential ...
"WikiLeaks," Donald Trump said at a campaign rally on Oct. 10, 2016. "I love WikiLeaks." That was three days after U.S. intelligence agencies issued a public warning that the Russian government was using the organization, already well known for its disclosures of government secrets, to ...
Trump confidant Roger Stone charged with lying about hacked emails
U.S. President Donald Trump's confidant Roger Stone was charged with lying about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's 2016 election bid, with prosecutors alleging that senior Trump campaign officials sought to leverage the publication of the stolen material into a White ...
Lawyer Rudy Giuliani says Trump won't answer any more questions from Robert Mueller probe
Donald Trump's legal team told special counsel Robert Mueller that the U.S. president will not answer any more questions in the probe of Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday. Trump submitted written answers to questions from Mueller in ...
Michelle Obama tops Hillary Clinton as America's most admired woman
Former first lady Hillary Clinton's 17-year run as the woman Americans admire most is over. Another former first lady, Michelle Obama, has deposed Clinton as America's most admired woman, according to a Gallup poll published on Thursday. Former President Barack Obama was named the man Americans ...
Axed FBI chief James Comey hits Congress Republicans for not standing up to Trump's 'lies'
Former FBI director James Comey lashed out at Donald Trump on Monday for telling "lies" and undermining the rule of law, and urged Republicans to stand up to the president. "The FBI's reputation has as taken a big hit because the president of the United ...
James Comey: FBI probe of Russia initially looked at four Trump-linked Americans
The FBI's counterintelligence investigation into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia initially focused on four Americans and whether they were connected to Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, former FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers during hours of closed-door ...
Trump lashes out at Robert Mueller's Russia probe, calling it 'our Joe McCarthy era'
Donald Trump lashed out once more Wednesday at the head of the Russia probe, Robert Mueller, accusing him of pressuring witnesses to lie, while retweeting an image that shows the U.S. president's perceived adversaries behind bars. "This is our Joe McCarthy era!" Trump declared in ...
U.S. President Donald Trump wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute two political foes, his one-time presidential opponent Hillary Clinton and former FBI director James Comey, in the spring, but his White House counsel rebuffed him, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Don ...
Democrats demand probe of Ivanka Trump's private email use for government work
Democrats called on Tuesday for an investigation into U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter and top White House adviser Ivanka Trump following reports that she repeatedly used a personal email account last year for government business. A White House review of Ivanka Trump's email found she ...
Mueller scores win in prosecution of firm run by 'Putin's chef'
A U.S. judge denied a request from a Russian company controlled by an associate of Vladimir Putin to dismiss charges that it conspired to interfere with the 2016 election. It's a win for special counsel Robert Mueller, who charged the firm, Concord Management and Consulting ...
Florida pipe bomb suspect was spinning vinyl as club DJ as Feds closed in
In the hours before his arrest, as federal authorities zeroed in and secretly accumulated evidence, Cesar Sayoc was in his element: spinning classic and Top 40 hits in a nightclub where he'd found work as a DJ. As he entertained patrons from a dimly lit ...
