AP Trump continues to deny Russian collusion even as his administration cites interference

Just hours after the Justice Department indicted 13 Russians in what it charged was a broad conspiracy to alter the 2016 election, President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Lt. General H.R. McMaster, accused Moscow of engaging in a campaign of "disinformation, subversion and espionage" that he said Washington would continue to expose.

Mueller charges 13 Russians with meddling in 2016 race

In an extraordinary indictment, the U.S. special counsel has accused 13 Russians of an elaborate plot to disrupt the 2016 presidential election, charging them with running a huge but hidden social media trolling campaign aimed in part at helping Republican Donald Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton. The federal indictment, brought Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller, represents the most detailed allegations to date of illegal Russian meddling during the campaign that sent Trump to the White House.

Key players in the Trump-Russia probe

A look at some of the key players in the Trump-Russia probe after a federal indictment charged 13 Russians in a plot to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election: One of the key figures indicted with plotting to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential is a Russian restaurateur believed to have ties to President Vladimir Putin. An entrepreneur from St. Petersburg, Yevgeny Prigozhin has been dubbed "Putin's chef" by Russian media because his restaurants and catering businesses have hosted the Kremlin leader's dinners with foreign dignitaries.

Mnuchin says more Russia sanctions are coming

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday the Trump administration is "actively working" on imposing sanctions on Russia over its interference in the 2016 US election. "We are actively working on Russia sanctions coming out of the classified briefing," Mnuchin told lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee, where he was testifying on the President's 2019 budget.

Intel chief says “national cry” needed to combat Russian election meddling

In an open session of the Senate committee's annual Worldwide Threat Assessment hearing on Tuesday, all six intelligence chiefs told Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, that they stood by the conclusions of a January 2017 assessment that said the Russian government -- at President Vladimir Putin's instruction -- "That this is going to happen, and the resilience needed for us to stand up and say we're not going to allow some Russian to tell us how to vote, how to run our country," Coats, who leads the nation's 17 intelligence agencies, said. "I think there needs to be a national cry for that."

Midterm vote Russia’s prey, senators told

The nation's top intelligence chiefs were united Tuesday in declaring that Russia is continuing efforts to disrupt the U.S. political system and is targeting the 2018 midterm election, after its successful operation to sow discord in the most recent presidential campaign. The assessment stands in contrast to President Donald Trump, who has mocked the very notion of Russian interference in the 2016 election and lashed out at those who have suggested otherwise.

Russia already targeting 2018 midterms: Tillerson

Midterm elections in the U.S., whose intelligence community accused the Kremlin of meddling in the 2016 election to support President Trump, are a target of a repeat effort, Tillerson told Fox News in an interview from Bogota, Colombia. ""There are a lot of ways the Russians can meddle in the elections, a lot of different tools they can use," he said.

McCain: Attacks on FBI ‘serve no American interests’

John Sidney McCain What Trump didn't say in his State of the Union address Trump signs order to keep Gitmo open Trump's pick for NY prosecutor scrutinized MORE Donald John Trump Schiff: Nunes gave Trump 'secretly altered' version of memo Davis: 'Deep state' existed in '16 - but it elected Trump Former Trump legal spokesman to testify to Mueller about undisclosed call: report MORE and GOP lawmakers of the FBI, warning they are only bolstering Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this [Russia] investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows," McCain said in a statement.

Devin Nunes pro-Trump moves come amid tightened re-election bid

Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes has become the face of Republicans' questioning of the FBI in the Russia probe. California Rep. Devin Nunes has staked his name on questioning the FBI's Russia investigation, but his long term political future could suffer from joining Team Trump.