WASHINGTON (AP) — In a series of startlingly candid conversations, President Donald Trump told former FBI Director James Comey that he had serious concerns about the judgment of a top adviser, asked about the possibility of jailing journalists and described a boast from Vladimir Putin about Russian prostitutes, according to Comey’s notes of the talks […]
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Former FBI director James Comey compares Donald Trump to mob boss
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey blasts President Donald Trump as unethical and “untethered to truth” in a sharply critical new book that describes Trump as fixated in the early days of his administration on having the FBI debunk salacious rumors he insisted were untrue but could distress his wife. In the forthcoming […]
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Donald Trump seethes over FBI raid, ponders firing those he blames
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was so incensed by the FBI’s raid of his personal attorney’s office and hotel room that he’s privately pondered firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and publicly mused about ousting special counsel Robert Mueller. The raid, in which agents seized attorney Michael Cohen’s records on topics including a $130,000 […]
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Trump: Raid on his lawyer abuses attorney-client privilege
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents have raided the office of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, seizing records on topics that include a $130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who says she had sex with Trump. The raid prompted a new blast Tuesday from the president, who tweeted that “Attorney-client privilege is […]
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Investigators suspect FedEx bomb tied to Austin bombings
A package believed to be bound for Austin exploded at a Texas FedEx facility early Tuesday, law enforcement officials said, opening another potential front in investigations into of a series of blasts that have left the Texas capital gripped with fear. The explosion happened shortly after midnight at the facility in Schertz, Texas, just northeast […]
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Jeff Sessions pushes back on Donald Trump's criticism over handling of FBI
WASHINGTON (AP) — Harshly criticized yet again by his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has abandoned his usual stony silence and pushed back against President Donald Trump for saying Sessions’ response to Republican complaints about the FBI was “disgraceful.” Sessions gave no suggestion he would step down in light of Trump’s charge Wednesday on Twitter […]
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Fighting gun violence after shooting gives teens purpose
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Chris Grady was a theater kid counting down the days until he reported for duty in the U.S. Army this summer, when a gunman opened fire at his school. As he huddled in his classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last Wednesday listening to shots ring out nearby, what he […]
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Donald Trump stays quiet on shooting victims, fumes over Russia
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump spent the holiday weekend hunkered down at his Florida estate, watching cable television news, grousing to club members and advisers and fuming over the investigation of Russian election meddling. In a marathon series of furious tweets from Mar-a-Lago, Trump vented about Russia, raging at the FBI […]
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Trump criticizes FBI for failure to probe tip on Florida shooter, says ‘too much time’ spent on Russia
President Donald Trump late Saturday night criticized the FBI for failing to act on a tip that might have prevented the recent massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, and said the bureau was devoting too much time to its investigation of his presidential campaign. “Very sad that the FBI missed all of the […]
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Donald Trump seized on what memo could mean even before reading it
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before he’d read the memo, President Donald Trump seized on what it could mean. The president first learned of the House Intelligence Committee document last month from some Republican allies in Congress and he watched it take hold in the conservative media, including on some of his favorite Fox News programs, […]