Karoun Demirjian

White House Communications Director Hope Hicks in the Oval Office of the White House this month.

In Russia probe, Hicks refuses to answer questions about Trump administration

February 28, 2018 at 10:22 a.m.

White House communications director Hope Hicks refused to answer questions about the Trump administration that House investigators posed Tuesday as part of their probe of Russian interference in the 2016...

Rep. Adam Schiff, D- Calif., ranking ...

Trump attacks Adam Schiff ahead of vote on Democrats’ Russia probe memo

February 5, 2018 at 4:50 p.m.

House lawmakers are preparing for a possible vote Monday on whether to release a Democratic rebuttal to the controversial Republican memo accusing the FBI of surveillance abuses - even as...

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe listens ...

Internal Justice Department probe eyes McCabe’s role in final weeks of 2016 election

January 30, 2018 at 10:08 p.m.

The Justice Department's inspector general has been focused for months on why Andrew McCabe, as the No. 2 official at the FBI, appeared not to act for about three weeks...

Republicans vote to release memo alleging FBI missteps while surveilling Trump campaign operative

January 30, 2018 at 1:28 p.m.

The House Intelligence Committee voted Monday to release a memo detailing alleged surveillance abuses by the FBI and Justice Department, escalating a political fight between conservatives and the nation's intelligence...

Special counsel Robert Mueller departs ...

No longer a “lonely battle”: How the campaign against the Mueller probe has taken hold

December 24, 2017 at 10:27 p.m.

For months, efforts to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller III's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign flickered at the fringes of political debate.

Facing Republican attacks, FBI’s deputy director plans to retire early next year

December 23, 2017 at 7:34 p.m.

Andrew McCabe, the FBI's deputy director who has been the target of Republican critics for more than a year, plans to retire in a few months when he becomes fully...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday retweeted a string of inflammatory videos from a fringe British political group purporting to show violence being committed by Muslims.

Top FBI official assigned to Mueller’s Russia probe was removed after sending anti-Trump texts

December 2, 2017 at 10:23 p.m.

The former top FBI official assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller III's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election was taken off that job this summer after his bosses...

In this June 6, 2013 file photo, the sign outside the National Security Administration campus in Fort Meade, Md.

Senators propose limit on FISA 铿乴es

November 17, 2017 at 9:15 p.m.

A pair of senators on Friday released their bipartisan proposal to renew a powerful surveillance authority for collecting foreign intelligence on U.S. soil, but with a new brake on the...

Senior Advisor Jared Kushner waits for ...

Jared Kushner is accused of withholding information

November 16, 2017 at 10:13 p.m.

Committee leaders Grassley and Feinstein insist that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner turn over missing records to committee investigators.

Russian ads, now publicly released, show sophistication of influence campaign

November 2, 2017 at 12:25 a.m.

Lawmakers on Wednesday released a trove of ads that Russian operatives bought on Facebook, providing the fullest picture yet of how foreign actors sought to promote Republican Donald Trump, denigrate...

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