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President Trump made a direct appeal to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling over Twitter Wednesday.   On a trip to campaign for a congressional candidate, Rudy Giuliani said the president was not issuing a directive to the Justice Department, as Democrats had suggested.

President Trump made a direct appeal to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling over Twitter Wednesday.   On a trip to campaign for a congressional candidate, Rudy Giuliani said the president was not issuing a directive to the Justice Department, as Democrats had suggested.

MORE is due to visit Ohio and campaign for Republican House candidate Troy Balderson, who is seeking to keep what’s been a reliably Republican House seat in GOP hands. Trump is planning to stop by the state's 12th district in the Columbus suburbs on Saturday, The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported late on Tuesday, citing Republican sources. Polls show a tightening race between Balderson and Democrat Danny O’Connor in the Aug.

Democrats are pointing the finger at Russia over Facebook’s new disclosure of a political influence campaign ahead of the midterm elections. The social media giant disclosed Tuesday that it had removed 32 pages and accounts on Facebook and Instagram linked to a coordinated political influence campaign, uncovered through its broader investigation into election interference triggered by Russian meddling in 2016. And while Facebook hasn’t been definitive in blaming Russian actors for the new campaign, Democrats aren’t being shy about attributing the effort to Moscow. House Intelligence Committee

As one Senate committee’s members appear to have hit a wall in their efforts to craft a bill to fix family separations at the border, a second Senate panel is quietly starting their own negotiations. The new push comes as the politics of family separation legislation has grown increasingly partisan as both sides seize on the issue to fire up their bases heading into the November midterm elections, where the control of Congress hangs in the balance.  Johnson is convening members of his committee Wednesday to start talks aimed at finding a bipartisan starting point for a new round of negotiatio

Facebook has revealed a new coordinated disinformation campaign ahead of November's elections that used dozens of fake accounts and pages on its platform. The company said it has removed 32 pages and accounts across Facebook and Instagram involved in "inauthentic behavior" after discovering them last week. It has briefed lawmakers on its discoveries and has been working with the FBI on the matter since discovering the accounts last week. “We're still in the very early stages of our investigation and don't have all the facts — including who may be behind this,” Facebook said in a post. “But we

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