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'This is real collusion and dishonesty': Trump calls for Justice Dept to investigate claims Hillary took over the DNC months before she ran as even Elizabeth Warren admits the entire system was rigged Twitter silences Trump! President's account is DEACTIVATED for 11 minutes by a rogue employee on their last day - sending social media wild I'd LOVE to order a full investigation of Hillary Clinton says Trump - but I can't because I'm 'not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department' and I'm VERY frustrated Jared Kushner hands over documents to Mueller as prosecutor probes role he played in firing of FBI boss James Comey Trump blasts Hillary Clinton for defending 'dirty dossier' funding as he says opposition research file Democrats for was 'totally fake' and 'like a novel' 'He is a pedophile': Kevin Spacey, then 24, had sex with teen, 14, and later tried to rape him claims victim - ... (more)
Senate Democrats have called on Jeff Sessions to clarify just how much he knew about attempts by the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election, following revelations that the attorney general was previously in a meeting with former Trump campaign aide-turned special counsel cooperator George Papadopoulos. Sen. Al Franken demanded that Sessions clarify his past statements and Sen. Patrick Leahy has asked the attorney general to once again appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee following the indictments this week of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his longtime associate Rick Gates as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., demanded Attorney General Jeff Sessions "must return" before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify under oath after a new report disputed Sessions' prior testimony in which he denied knowing about former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos' proposed meeting with the Russians. Responding to documents unsealed this week which show that Sessions was apparently aware of the proposed March 2016 meeting and actively tried to shut it down, Leahy wrote in a statement that Sessions "needs to come back before the Senate Judiciary Committee."
A group representing Hawaii commercial fishermen has fi... HONOLULU - Hundreds of foreign fishermen currently confined to vessels in Honolulu for years at a time would be allowed to come ashore when they dock under legislation introduced Thursday in Congress. The Sustainable Fishing Workforce Protection Act offers workplace protections a year after an Associated Press investigation found that Hawaii's commercial fishing fleet is crewed by about 700 men who are never allowed off their boats, even when they come into the Honolulu Harbor to unload their catch.
Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken responded to the latest developments in the special counsel investigation by saying that Attorney General Jeff Sessions "seems to have problems telling the truth." Franken's comments on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" came after unsealed court documents showed former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos had told the campaign about a potential meeting opportunity between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and news emerged that Sessions vetoed the idea.
Much is being made of Donald Trump, back when he was a Republican presidential candidate under pressure to show that he had a foreign policy team, referring to George Papadopoulos as "an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy," according to a recording produced by The Washington Post. What has not been reported much from that recording -- which was made during an interview Trump had with the Post's editorial board -- was what Trump said just before he uttered the guy's name: "Do you have that list, so I'll be a little more accurate with it?" Trump asks an aide, responding to a question about his foreign policy advisers.
Washington: Senate Democrats have demanded an explanation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions over why he did not disclose a March 2016 gathering with then-candidate Donald Trump and members of his campaign team at which an adviser offered to set up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Sessions' participation in the gathering was detailed in court documents released Monday by special counsel Robert Mueller III.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as he delivers remarks Wednesday from the briefing room of the State Department in Washington. Tillerson will go to Myanmar next week, the State Department said, becoming the most senior U.S. official to visit since the start of the Rohingya crisis.
As the trial of Senator Robert Menendez neared its end on Thursday, the prosecution focused on three flights he took years ago on a private plane owned by his friend Dr. Salomon Melgen, and on a $58,500 payment the senator made for the three flights after they became public. "Senator Menendez never intended to write that check," J.P. Cooney, a federal prosecutor, said in court here.
President Donald Trump and Republican senators agreed Thursday not to deal with a needed fix for young immigrants in must-pass year-end spending legislation, according to some GOP lawmakers.
The month of October was bookended by two national tragedies: the mass shooting in Las Vegas, which left 59 dead and over 500 injured , and a lone wolf terror attack in New York City, where a 29-year-old male barreled down a popular New York City bike path, killing eight and injuring over a dozen . The cause of the incidents differed.
Republican mega-donor Robert Mercer, a billionaire with close ties to President Donald Trump, is stepping down from his position as chief executive officer of the New York investment firm Renaissance Technologies. The 71-year-old Mercer is also selling his personal stake in the pro-Trump website Breitbart News to his daughters.
Then-interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile confers with then-Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid . The former interim head of the Democratic Party just accused Hillary Clinton's campaign of "unethical" conduct that "compromised the party's integrity."
Michael Brennan's nomination for a lifetime appointment as a judge on a federal appellate court whose jurisdiction includes Wisconsin is tainted in ways that should make Wisconsinites wary. The U.S. Constitution grants the president power to nominate federal judges "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate."
Sam Clovis, a former Trump campaign official who is now linked to special counsel Robert Mueller's federal probe into Russia's interference in the presidential election, is withdrawing his nomination to be the Agriculture Department's chief scientist. Clovis's decision comes just days after court filings indicate that he may have encouraged President Trump's campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos to set up meetings with Russians for the Trump campaign.
In three exhaustive hearings this week, executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google acknowledged that their platforms were used by Russia to try and create division over such disparate issues as immigration, gun control and politics. House investigators released a trove of Facebook and Twitter ads that showed just how extraordinary the cyber intrusion was.
On November 3, the New York senator proposed comprehensive legislation that would reform the way Congress handles sexual harassment. Specifically, putting rules in place that would make it easier for the victims to get justice.
In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. The secretary of state under President Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. senator from Massachusetts was the target of at least five phishing emails during June-December 2015 at his Gmail address, according to data from the cybersecurity firm Secureworks.
The jury in the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is set to hear closing arguments on Thursday after more than two months of testimony. The New Jersey Democrat is charged with accepting gifts from Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen in exchange for using his political influence.