Matt Zapotosky

William Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA, FBI activities in 2016

September 30, 2019 at 6:31 p.m.

Attorney General William Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Donald Trump hopes will discredit U.S. intelligence...

President Donald Trump speaks during a ...

Memo detailing Trump鈥檚 call with Ukrainian president shows him offering U.S. assistance for Biden investigation

September 27, 2019 at 1:37 p.m.

President Donald Trump told his Ukrainian counterpart to work with the U.S. attorney general to investigate the conduct of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and offered to meet with the...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller makes a ...

Five things to know about Robert Mueller鈥檚 testimony

July 23, 2019 at 9:04 a.m.

WASHINGTON - Former special counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to testify publicly before two separate congressional panels Wednesday, when he will publicly address questions for the first time about his...

President Donald Trump speaks before a ...

Trump asserts executive privilege to shield documents on Census citizenship question

June 12, 2019 at 9:15 a.m.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday asserted executive privilege to shield documents about the administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a move meant to try to...

Trump formally asserts executive privilege over Mueller report

May 8, 2019 at 9:28 a.m.

WASHINGTON - The White House formally asserted executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller's report Wednesday, President Donald Trump's first use of the executive authority in the latest confrontation with...

Special counsel Robert Mueller drives away ...

Mueller complained that Barr鈥檚 letter did not capture 鈥渃ontext鈥� of Trump probe

April 30, 2019 at 9:41 p.m.

Special counsel Robert Mueller III wrote a letter in late March complaining to Attorney General William Barr that a four-page memo to Congress describing the principal conclusions of the investigation...

Attorney General William Barr, center, answers a question during a press conference hours before releasing a version of the Mueller report, on April 18, 2019 in Washington. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is behind him at right. At left is Acting Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed O'Callaghan.

Mueller report lays out obstruction evidence against the president

April 18, 2019 at 11:35 p.m.

The long-awaited report from special counsel Robert Mueller details abundant evidence against President Donald Trump - finding 10 episodes of suspicious behavior - but ultimately concluding it was not Mueller's...

In this file photo taken on March 19, 2018 Attorney General Jeff Sessions, left, and First Lady Melania Trump applaud as President Donald Trump speaks about combating the opioid crisis at Manchester Community College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Jeff Sessions’ law enforcement legacy overshadowed by Trump’s fury

November 7, 2018 at 1:27 p.m.

To Jeff Sessions, President Donald Trump was the man who could do no wrong. To Trump, Sessions was the attorney general who could do no right.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies ...

Denver-based friend interviewed as FBI navigates political minefield and deadline in Kavanaugh inquiry

October 3, 2018 at 8:12 a.m.

FBI agents involved with the Brett Kavanaugh investigation interviewed a Denver-based friend of the Supreme Court nominee.

Peter Strzok during a joint House Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform Committees hearing in Washington on July 12, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer.

FBI agent Peter Strzok fired over anti-Trump texts

August 14, 2018 at 12:32 a.m.

WASHINGTON - The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump...

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