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Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA, FBI activities in 2016

WASHINGTON – Attorney General William Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Donald Trump hopes will discredit U.S. intelligence agencies’ examination of possible connections between Russia and ...

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Rep. Christopher Collins resigning and expected to plead guilty of insider-trading case

Rep. Christopher Collins, a Republican from New York who was an early supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential run, is resigning from his seat, according to officials in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. The congressman, was charged last year with trading on ...

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Judge bars Trump fast-track deportation policy, saying threat to legal migrants was not assessed

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dramatically expanding its power to deport undocumented immigrants who have illegally entered the United States in the past two years by using a fast-track deportation process that bypasses immigration judges. In ...

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Intelligence panel has deal to hear whistleblower’s testimony

WASHINGTON – House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that his panel has reached an agreement to secure testimony from the anonymous whistleblower whose detailed complaint launched an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump. The announcement from Schiff came ...

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Judge denies media request for Mueller grand jury materials

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Thursday denied a news media request to unseal grand jury records cited in special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report, noting an April decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...

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Manhattan DA delays subpoena seeking Trump tax returns

The Manhattan district attorney has agreed to delay a subpoena seeking President Donald Trump’s tax returns until Tuesday, while a federal judge considers Trump’s lawsuit seeking to have the subpoena thrown out. That delay was announced late Thursday in a ...

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Giuliani engaged parade of Ukrainian prosecutors

WASHINGTON – Rudy Giuliani spent months cultivating current and former prosecutors in Ukraine with a particular goal: Help President Donald Trump in next year’s election by ensuring that Ukrainian authorities pursued allegations that could damage his Democratic rivals. But the ...

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A quick guide to Trump’s false claims about Ukraine and the Bidens

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has long relied on repetition to spread his falsehoods into the national discourse. As the whistleblower complaint about his dealings with Ukraine has led to a possible impeachment crisis, he has repeated previously fact-checked claims ...

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Nearly 300 former officials call Trump’s actions concerning Ukraine ‘profound national security concern’

WASHINGTON – Nearly 300 former U.S. national security and foreign policy officials have signed a statement warning that President Donald Trump’s actions regarding Ukraine are a “profound national security concern” and supporting an impeachment inquiry by Congress to determine “the ...

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Judge in landmark opioid trial declines to step aside

The judge overseeing next month’s landmark opioid trial declined to step aside Thursday, rejecting drug companies’ assertion that comments he made in and out of court reveal his bias towards settling the case. U.S. District Court Judge Dan Aaron Polster ...

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Justice Department rejected investigation of Trump phone call just weeks after it began examining the matter

WASHINGTON – Justice Department officials took less than a month to abandon an inquiry into President Donald Trump’s communications with his Ukrainian counterpart about investigating former vice president Joe Biden – reigniting concerns among Democrats and legal observers that the ...

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