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Attorney General MORE is under mounting pressure from the right to appoint a second special counsel to investigate conservative allegations of abuse at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI.  Up to now, those calls have gone quietly unanswered, with officials pointing to the existence of a Justice Department inspector general investigation that is expected to wrap up sometime this spring. But Sessions last week revealed that he has tapped a former official outside of the Beltway “with many years in the Department of Justice” to review the need for a special coun

Senate Minority Leader MORE moves to shut down the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Schumer cited comments by Trump's personal attorney John Dowd on Saturday asking the deputy attorney general to "bring an end" to the "fraudulent" investigation he claimed was constructed to undermine the president.  "The president, the administration, and his legal team must not take any steps to curtail, interfere

MORE's investigation into Trump campaign associates' ties to Russia. Trump lawyer John Dowd issued the call to "bring an end" the federal probe a day after Attorney General fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, prompting firm pushback from Democrats. "I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss MORE

The abrupt ouster of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe ignited a political firestorm in Washington on Saturday. Attorney General MORE said he fired McCabe on Friday, alleging that the FBI's former No. 2 official had misled congressional investigators and leaked information to the press.  But McCabe quickly pushed back on those claims.

Titled “Shep Smith Has the Hardest Job on Fox News,” Smith’s interview with Time‘s Daniel D’Addario took a candid look at the 54-year-old anchor’s life and career in the era of President Donald Trump and, notably, the difference between his work versus those of his colleagues.

Titled “Shep Smith Has the Hardest Job on Fox News,” Smith’s interview with Time‘s Daniel D’Addario took a candid look at the 54-year-old anchor’s life and career in the era of President Donald Trump and, notably, the difference between his work versus those of his colleagues.

Donald Trump Jr. and his wife, Vanessa Trump, are separating. “After 12 years of marriage, we have decided to go our separate ways," the couple said in a joint statement. "We will always have tremendous respect for each other and our families. We have five beautiful children together and they remain our top priority." The couple, who married in 2005, went on to ask for privacy. The news was broken by The New York Post, which reported Wednesday that a divorce could be imminent. At 40, Trump Jr. is President Donald Trump's eldest child.

President Russian spy in the United Kingdom. “It certainly looks like the Russians were behind it, something that should never ever happen and we’re taking it very seriously, as I think are many others,” Trump said in the Oval Office when asked by ABC News’ Jonathan Karl if Russian President Vladmir Putin was to blame. Earlier in the day, the White House released a rare joint statement from the leaders of the U.S., France, Germany and the United Kingdom blaming Russia for the chemical attack on former Russian intelligence age

The Trump administration is hitting five Russian entities and 19 Russian citizens with sanctions for cyber activity, including their interference in the 2016 election. The sanctions represent some of the most significant actions by the Trump administration Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. It is also the first time the administration has punished Russia for its election interference using sanctions authorities Congress passed overwhelmingly last summer and spent months demanding the White House utilize.

Felix Sater is a lot of things. One of them, he says, is misunderstood. The Soviet-born American businessman, who says he was a “senior advisor to presidential campaign. “I know how to play it, and we will get this done,” Sater wrote to Trump attorney and confidant Michael Cohen, his childhood friend, in emails published by The Washington Post and The New York Times.