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The federal investigation of alleged collusion between associates of President Donald Trump and Russian officials is looking not only into Trump campaign advisers previously cited in public accounts, but it is also scrutinizing at least one current White House staffer, a source familiar with the matter told ABC News. The Washington Post was the first to report on this detail of the investigation, saying a "senior White House adviser" has become "a significant person of interest" in the probe. Officials speaking to ABC News wo

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories President Donald Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the FBI director, James Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting. “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by a U.S. official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify in open session before the Senate Intelligence Committee.  The New York Times reported that President Trump had told the Russians that James Comey was “crazy, a real nut job.”   The senior White House adviser under scrutiny by investigators is someone close to the president, according to The Washington Post.  Rod Rosenstein said he stood by his memo, but said he had no intention of it being used to fire James Comey.  EDITORI

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Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Capital Source Terrorist attacks around the world are rattling the folks who run the State House, so much so they have created a new position – director of security – and are on the verge of filling it.  Capital Source The Massachusetts Dental Society has conducted a poll it says shows widespread concern about a new type of advanced dental hygienist, a sort of nurse practitioner of the dental world.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify in open session before the Senate Intelligence Committee.  The New York Times reported that President Trump had told the Russians that James Comey was “crazy, a real nut job.”   The senior White House adviser under scrutiny by investigators is someone close to the president, according to The Washington Post.  Rod Rosenstein said he stood by his memo, but said he had no intention of it being used to fire James Comey.  EDITORI

Chelsea Handler says she once rejected Ivanka Trump straight to the first daughter’s face, only to be met with a shrug. The “Chelsea” host — whose politically charged talk show's second season premiered this month on Netflix — recalled the encounter Friday over drinks with a small group of journalists at Teddy & The Bully Bar in downtown Washington. Both Ivanka Trump, who serves as an adviser to her father at the White House, and Handler, an outspoken critic of President Trump, were among the speakers last October at Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit in California. Handler — wh

President Trump is considering pulling the plug on key ObamaCare subsidies, Politico reported Friday, citing remarks the president has made to advisers. “No final decisions have been made at this time, and all options are on the table," the White House said in a statement to Politico. The Trump administration has reportedly told Congress that it will continue the subsidies through May, but it is not clear what will happen after that. If the payments do stop, it could cause premium costs

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Friday slammed President Trump's claim that fired FBI Director reported on Friday that Trump had told visiting Russian officials last week that firing Comey had taken "great pressure" off of him, because of the FBI's ongoing investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and Moscow during the 2016 election. Trump also told the Russian officials that Comey was "crazy" and "a nut job," according to the report.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro slammed President Trump on Friday, ordering him to stop "meddling" in the South American country, Reuters reported. Maduro's comments came a day after the U.S. imposed fresh sanctions on eight members of Venezuela's Supreme Court in retaliation for the court's decision to strip power from the country's legislature. That ruling was later reversed.  "Enough meddling ... Go home,