Heads of the Senate Intelligence committee and special counsel Robert Mueller gathered for the first time Wednesday on Capitol Hill to discuss their respective investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Published June 14, 2017
Accusations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia faded, and Democrats shifted their focus Tuesday to trying to build a case for obstruction of justice against President Trump. Published June 13, 2017
Notes and memos that fired FBI Director James B. Comey wrote about his private meetings with President Trump and then passed to a law professor in New York to leak to the media are now in the FBI's possession, ABC News reported Tuesday. Published June 13, 2017
Liberal political advocacy group Common Cause on Tuesday added to the speculation over special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election -- saying that the country needs to step above political squabbling and create an independent investigation into the matter. Published June 13, 2017
Critics of Mr. Comey say his calculated formulation and leak of the memos through a third party suggest his actions were part of a deliberate and vendetta-driven plot -- crossing dangerous lines regarding the classification of government documents and FBI conduct. Published June 12, 2017
Democrats indicated Sunday that the decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to testify to Congress on Russian involvement in the November presidential election isn't good enough -- they want Tuesday's testimony to be public. Published June 11, 2017
The House Intelligence committee has requested that the White House produce any recordings that might exist of President Donald Trump's conversations with fired FBI director James B. Comey. Published June 9, 2017
President Trump's son-in-law and special adviser Jared Kushner and special counsel Robert Mueller, head of the probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election, are expected to soon meet with Senate Intelligence Committee, according to various sources and published reports. Published June 9, 2017
Capping one of the most anticipated Capitol Hill confrontations in years, fired FBI Director James B. Comey told a Senate panel on Thursday that he hopes there are Oval Office tapes to back up his assertion that President Trump asked him to drop the probe into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, saying he feared the president would lie about their private exchanges. Published June 8, 2017
Two of the government's top intelligence officials said Wednesday that they did not feel pressured to end investigations into Russian meddling in the November presidential election, though fired FBI Director James B. Comey did say President Trump asked him to drop a piece of the probe looking into a former top aide. Published June 7, 2017
The Senate intelligence committee convenes on Wednesday to ask the country's law enforcement and intelligence chiefs to review the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- kicking off two days of what's been hyped as some of the most intense congressional hearing activity in recent history. Published June 7, 2017
The clash between an unorthodox American president and the FBI director whom he fired escalates to a new level Thursday as James B. Comey appears before Congress to testify under oath on whether President Trump tried to short-circuit his agency's investigation into Russian meddling in the November presidential election. Published June 6, 2017
In the weeks leading up to last year's presidential election, Russian military intelligence launched a cyberattack on a U.S. voting systems manufacturer, according to a classified National Security Agency report obtained by The Intercept. Published June 5, 2017
Three years ago, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared publicly for the first time in a half-decade to deliver a sermon at a northern Iraqi mosque. His purpose: to herald the start of Ramadan. Published June 4, 2017
Senators said Friday they want the top U.S. intelligence officials to testify next week on laws governing the scope of government spying and collection of foreign intelligence. Published June 2, 2017
The extent to which Trump campaign officials and others across America's political landscape "unwittingly" aided Russia's efforts to wreak havoc on the 2016 election is an increasing focus of competing federal investigations into Moscow's alleged meddling, according to current and former officials familiar with the probes. Published June 1, 2017
After J. Edgar Hoover's death 45 years ago, personal secretary Helen Gandy spent more than two months in the FBI director's house on a leafy Northwest Washington street rifling through his personal files — the most powerful archive of blackmail material on presidents, politicians and pundits compiled in American history. Published June 1, 2017
The House Intelligence Committee has issued seven new subpoenas this week in its probe of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election -- including three that could provide fresh fuel to charges that top Obama administration officials improperly sought the identities of Trump campaign figures swept up in the intelligence probe. Published June 1, 2017
Former FBI Director James B. Comey is on track to testify before Congress as early as next week to address accusations that President Trump, who fired him in early May, privately applied pressure to end the bureau's investigation into suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, inside sources were quoted as saying on Wednesday. Published May 31, 2017
Officials in Washington are scrambling to account for the leaked identity of Britain's deadliest suicide bomber in a decade after British authorities accused the United States of revealing the sensitive information -- the latest instance of unauthorized disclosures undermining American credibility around the world. Published May 24, 2017
