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President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey on Tuesday, setting off questions and criticisms about the FBI's ongoing investigation into possible collusions between Russia and Trump's campaign. Trump cited Comey's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server for government business, and politicians on both sides of the aisle have questioned that rationale.
Donald Trump doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. But our president is accustomed to receiving things he hasn't earned, so let's give it to him, anyway.
Former FBI Director James Comey during the House Intelligence hearing on Russian actions during the 2016 election campaign on March 20, 2017. Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is threatening congressional action after a string of disturbing incidents involving airlines and their passengers made national news.
The Republican party is mostly closing ranks around its president, shielding Donald Trump against attacks over the historic firing of an FBI director who was investigating his campaign's ties to Russia. Wednesday's circling of conservative wagons following the firing of FBI director James Comey extended from cable-news chatter to the party brass.
Key Republicans Wednesday emphatically resisted growing calls for an outside, independent investigator or a special panel in the wake of President Donald Trump's abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. Republicans control the Senate with 52 of its 100 seats.
The termination letter from President Donald Trump to FBI Director James Comey is photographed in Washington, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Trump abruptly fired Comey, ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an investigation into whether Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's election meddling.
President Donald Trump's stunning firing of FBI Director James Comey throws into question the future of a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign's possible connections to Russia and immediately raised suspicions of an underhanded effort to stymie a probe that has shadowed the administration from the outset. Democrats likened Tuesday's ouster to President Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" and renewed calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor, and some Republicans also questioned the move.
Democratic U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich told MSNBC Tuesday night "This sends the message that the president thinks he is above the law and that people should be deeply concerned." Meanwhile, Democratic Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham says "Now more than ever, we have to have an independent, non-partisan investigation."
US President Donald Trump has "terminated" FBI director James Comey with the top US law enforcement official ousted while he was speaking to agents. The firing came as the FBI investigated whether Mr Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's meddling in the election that sent him to the White House.
President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey without warning on Tuesday afternoon has unleashed a political earthquake with few parallels across the span of American history and deeply uncertain consequences. It leaves the nation confronting complicated questions about the relationship between government and independent law enforcement, the nature of Trump's use of power and possibly even the integrity of the presidency itself.
SUBPOENAS ISSUED IN RUSSIA INVESTIGATION "Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn seeking business records, as part of the ongoing probe of Russian meddling in last year's election, according to people familiar with the matter. CNN learned of the subpoenas hours before President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey."
The surprise firing of FBI director James Comey on Tuesday quickly ignited speculation about who could be next in line as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. President Donald Trump notified Comey, who was leading an investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, of his termination via a letter Tuesday.
President Donald Trump voted Wednesday morning to replace fired FBI chief James Comey with someone who will "do a better job" and bring back "the spirit and prestige of the FBI." In a series of early-morning tweets, Trump said Comey had "lost the confidence of almost everyone in Washington, Republican and Democrat alike," adding that "when things calm down, they will be thanking me!" Trump also slammed Democrats for criticizing Comey's dismissal now when they had criticized his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Bears Ears National Monument in Utah boasts stretches of red-and-yellow sandstone so brilliant they appear to be ablaze and rock structures so precarious they appear to defy gravity. The rugged terrain south of the Colorado River also has reserves of oil and natural gas that are currently off limits to new leasing -- restrictions that may end as the Trump administration reviews 27 large-scale monuments his predecessors set aside for protection.
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Dr. Scott Gottlieb as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration despite Democratic questions about his financial ties to medical companies the agency regulates. Gottlieb is a physician-turned-health consultant who has criticized many FDA regulations as unnecessary and has faced criticism from Democrats over his financial entanglements.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is eager to pursue legislation that would break up Wall Street megabanks and has pushed the issue with members of the Trump administration. "We're certainly reaching out to the administration," Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television airing Wednesday.
PIC: All eyes will be on Wall Street's reopening to gauge US reaction to Trump's bombshell announcement. World stock markets and the dollar wobbled on Wednesday, shaken by overnight news that US President Donald Trump has fired FBI director James Comey.
Since, many members of the GOP have rallied behind the cry of repeal and replace, but it's becoming unclear what they were doing the last seven years to actually get that job done. In March, an effort led by Paul Ryan, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, fell flat as it was pulled before a vote could fail.