Articles by Jeff Mordock
Associated Press reporters may have tipped off the FBI to a storage unit owned by former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort that the bureau later raided, an FBI agent testified Friday.
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June 29, 2018
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Jarrod Ramos, identified by Capital Gazette reporters as the gunman who killed five of the newspaper's staffers Thursday, lives in an apartment building in Laurel, Maryland, where neighbors say he seemed to be a loner.
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June 28, 2018
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Critics of President Trump said Thursday he bore blame for the shooting deaths of five people at a community newspaper in Maryland, saying his tough talk toward the press created the environment for the gunman to launch his attack.
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June 28, 2018
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A man with a shotgun and a beef against his local newspaper stalked into the offices of the Annapolis Capital Gazette Thursday and opened fire on the newsroom, killing five people and wounding two others.
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June 28, 2018
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein refused to say Thursday whether he read the secret surveillance warrant used to snoop on a Trump campaign figure last year, frustrating congressional Republicans who urged him to push for an end to the Russia investigation.
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June 28, 2018
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, engaged in a fierce exchange Thursday over whether the Department of Justice is hiding documents related to the Russia probe.
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June 28, 2018
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler engaged in a war of words Thursday, prior to the testimony of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christoper A. Wray.
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June 28, 2018
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A search warrant application unsealed Wednesday revealed President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort received a $10 million loan from Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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June 27, 2018
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A resolution prodding the Department of Justice to hand over more documents related to the Russia investigation will head for a vote by entire House on Thursday, Republican leadership announced late Wednesday.
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June 27, 2018
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The Libyan militant convicted in the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador, was sentenced by a federal judge Wednesday to 22 years in prison.
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June 27, 2018
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Federal prosecutors on Wednesday filed federal hate crimes charges against an Ohio man accused of driving a car into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others.
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June 27, 2018
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The FBI agent whose anti-Trump texts raised questions about political bias in the special counsel's Russia probe told lawmakers on Wednesday he regretted his actions, but denied that his political views influenced the investigation.
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June 27, 2018
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Women are underrepresented and rarely promoted at four of the nation's most renowned law enforcement agencies, making up just 16 percent of the ranks of criminal investigators, the Justice Department's inspector general said in a report Tuesday.
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June 26, 2018
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The showdown between Congress and the Justice Department over the Russia probe escalated Tuesday after the House Judiciary Committee voted in favor of a resolution demanding Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hand over sensitive documents related to the investigation into meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections.
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June 26, 2018
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A Department of Justice letter insisting it had complied with conservative lawmakers' demands to turn over documents related to the FBI's use of confidential informants to meet with Trump campaign figures is "an art form in creative writing," Rep. Mark Meadows, North Carolina Republican, said Tuesday on Twitter.
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June 26, 2018
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The Department of Justice on Monday rebuffed a deadline set by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, California Republican, to provide more information about the FBI's use of confidential informants while investigating President Trump's 2016 campaign.
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June 25, 2018
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President Trump on Monday night called for the congressional testimony of FBI agent Peter Strzok to be "shown to the public on live television."
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June 25, 2018
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President Trump on Monday questioned if it was "highly illegal" when Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia Democrat, joked that he inside information about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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June 25, 2018
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Nine House Republicans on Monday sent a letter asking Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to list the names of everyone "past and present" who has worked on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.
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June 25, 2018
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The congressional testimony of anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok will be closed to the public, a spokesperson for the House Judiciary Committee confirmed Monday.
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June 25, 2018
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