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The Latest on former FBI Director James Comey's memos (all times local): 12:10 a.m. President Donald Trump is claiming vindication after the release of memos from former FBI Director James Comey about their interactions together. Trump says the memos "'show clearly that there was NO COLLUSION and NO OBSTRUCTION." It's not clear what in the memos led the president to reach the conclusion. Trump also accused Comey of having leaked classified information, though the Justice Department says the memos it provided to Cong

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, has withdrawn lawsuits against BuzzFeed and Fusion GPS over the publishing of a controversial dossier compiled by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele. Cohen filed the lawsuits earlier this year — one in federal court against the private investigative firm and the other in state court against the popular media website. Late Wednesday night, Cohen’s attorney filed to dismiss both. "The decision to voluntarily discontinue these cases was a difficult one," Cohen's attorney, David Schwartz, said in a statement to ABC News on

A federal appeals court upheld a nationwide injunction that blocked the Trump administration from linking a federal grant program to cooperation with immigration enforcement Thursday. The program, known as the Byrne JAG grant, is the “primary provider” of federal criminal justice funding to state and local governments, according to the court.

Federal prosecutors in Washington have been asked by the James Comey, according to a source familiar with the matter. In a report made public by lawmakers last week, Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded that McCabe repeatedly misled investigators looking into how sensitive investigative information ended up on in a national newspaper in the weeks before the 2016 presidential election. Horowitz’s office then referred the matter

In newly released copies of memos written by James Comey, the former FBI Director describes what he says were Donald Trump's strenuous and repeated objections to claims that prostitutes visited his Moscow hotel room in 2013 as well as the president's "serious reservations" about his embattled National Security Adviser. "There were no prostitutes; there were never prostitutes," Comey recalled Trump saying in one of the memos. ABC News obtained copies of the memos, which are partially redacted, on Thursday after the Justice Department turned over 15 pages of declassified material to Congress

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Capital Source This week, when Dan Koh ran the Boston Marathon, he listed his address at his parents’ home in Andover. His wife? Not so much.   Capital Source It’s an election year in Lawrence.

The 15 pages of documents contain new details about a series of interactions with Trump that former FBI Director James Comey found so unnerving that he chose to document them in writing.  ‘‘I’m doing it because I hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country,” former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.  The lawsuits, withdrawn late Wednesday, would have required Cohen to submit to an evidence discovery process.