WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions may not have been clear about his contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 election, but this much is: The controversy over any Kremlin involvement in American politics is not going to fade away anytime soon. Sessions on Thursday became the second high-ranking member of the Trump administration […]
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President Trump says no reason for Jeff Sessions to leave Russia probe
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, and others, waves to a small crowd of supporters upon his arrival at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, on Thursday, March 2, 2017. WASHINGTON — A growing number of Republicans joined Democratic leaders Thursday in calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step aside […]
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AG Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from any Russia probe
Updated 4:10 p.m.: Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he will recuse himself from a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 White House election. Following allegations that the U.S. attorney general provided misleading information to a Senate hearing in January about his contacts with Russian officials, Maine lawmakers are calling on him to resign […]
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Jeff Sessions spoke twice with Russian ambassador during campaign
Sessions spoke twice with Russian ambassador during Trump’s presidential campaign Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice in 2016 with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, but did not mention this during his confirmation hearing to become U.S. attorney general. Sessions was asked about possible contacts between President Trump’s campaign and the Russian government. (Victoria […]
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U.S. Sen. Angus King promises thorough probe of alleged Russia-Trump ties
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is about to get moving on its investigation into possible ties between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia. U.S. Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent who is a member of the panel, said the probe “will be underway next week, at least on the staff level.” King also promised that […]
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Russia’s probe in Ukraine targets Trump administration
It’s mid-winter, with temperatures plunging to five degrees Fahrenheit, but Russia’s creeping war of aggression in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region is heating up once again as Kremlin-supplied rebels attack Ukrainians defending the town of Avdiivka. Despite the Minsk Protocol ceasefire of September 2014, the Kremlin’s Ukraine war has never ceased. It began in Spring 2014, […]
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Dossier on Donald Trump circulated in DC for months before being leaked
WASHINGTON — It was a bombshell story, emerging on the eve of Donald Trump’s first news conference as president-elect: U.S. intelligence officials had presented Trump with unsubstantiated claims that Russia had amassed compromising personal and financial allegations about him. The purported Russian efforts were described in a newly released and uncorroborated dossier produced in August. […]
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Donald Trump blasts intelligence agencies over report on Russia ties
NEW YORK — Hours before his first news conference as president-elect, Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted U.S. intelligence agencies, blaming them for leaking unsubstantiated reports on his relationship with Russia and demanding, “Are we living in Nazi Germany?” A U.S. official told The Associated Press on Tuesday that intelligence officials had informed Trump last week […]
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Kremlin denies it has compromising information on Donald Trump
MOSCOW — A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday dismissed as an “absolute fantasy” allegations that the Kremlin has collected compromising information about President-elect Donald Trump. “The Kremlin has no compromising dossier on Trump, such information isn’t consistent with reality and is nothing but an absolute fantasy,” Dmitry Peskov, who handles Putin’s day-to-day communications, […]