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In a controversial and unprecedented move, the House Intelligence Committee on Friday released a previously classified memo claiming that the Department of Justice (DOJ) abused critical surveillance authorities in order to damage President Trump's campaign.  Trump declassified the document Friday without redactions despite fierce public objections from the FBI, which warned this week that the memo contained “material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”  The four-p

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released a controversial memo on Friday alleging that senior officials at the FBI and Department of Justice abused their powers to spy on members of MORE (D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said the application for a warrant to spy on Page was the product of scores of independent investigators and that the Nunes memo “fails to provide vital context and information about that process.”

Senate Majority Leader on Tuesday that he will give an immigration bill a vote, but it won't be attached to a spending deal. "It is still my view that I will call up a DACA related immigration bill that ... the president will sign and that it will not be a part of any overall spending agreement," McConnell told reporters, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Congress has less than two weeks to meet a Jan.

They were closing in on Carter Page. It was the last day of November, and the onetime adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign was dodging the tourists who clotted the sidewalks around Rockefeller Center and its famous Christmas tree. As Page wove his way through the holiday crowd, he talked about his troubles, raising his voice to be heard above a Salvation Army bell-ringer. “Anybody who knows me knows how ridiculous the whole thing is,” he lamented to me and everyone else within earshot along Fifth Avenue.

The contents of the controversial Republican memo alleging abuses of government surveillance powers at the FBI and Justice Department have been hotly debated, and now the American public is now be able to read them in detail. The document, authored by the Republican staff of the House Intelligence Committee, was released Friday after President Donald Trump declassified it and approved its release without redactions by that committee.

After a tumultuous and busy first year in office, President State of the Union address to Congress and the country. Our team of journalists from ABC News investigated some of those statements, looking for additional context, detail and information. Here is ABC News' fact check of the address: TRUMP CLAIM: "We enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history." OUR TAKE: False WHY: The recently enacted tax bill is the 12th largest as a percentage of the

First lady President Donald Trump, made a statement -- a fashion statement, that is -- dressed in a white pantsuit, among a sea of Democratic women sporting black attire, who were making a significantly more political statement. Mrs.

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Before a starkly divided Congress and with the cloud of the Russia investigation continuing to hang over his administration, President national security and health care, largely stuck to the format of past State of the Union speeches, complete with the requisite callouts to guests who illustrated points on the president's agenda and soaring rhetoric that highlighted American ideals and values. But in the midst of a contentious debate over government