Natasha Bertrand
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters FBI Agents Say the Shutdown Is a Threat to National Security
Nearly 5,000 FBI special agents, intelligence analysts, attorneys, and professional staff have been furloughed.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Manafort’s Own Lawyers May Have Hastened His Downfall
The initial failure to redact a sensitive document was the latest in a series of missteps by Paul Manafort’s lawyers.
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J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press The Special Counsel Is Bearing Down on Roger Stone
The longtime Trump adviser appears to have asked an associate to obtain anti-Clinton emails from WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Michael Flynn’s Lawyers Appear to Have Badly Miscalculated
Judge Emmet Sullivan expressed “disdain” and “disgust” for Flynn’s crimes and, despite the government’s request for leniency, postponed a status hearing until March.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP A Surge in Foreign-Influence Prosecutions
Authorities indict two former associates of Michael Flynn for acting as illegal agents of the Turkish government in the United States.
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Pavel Ptitsin / AP Maria Butina’s Defiant Plea and Yet Another Russian Ploy
The onetime graduate student admits to being a foreign agent who sought to establish back channels to Republicans through the NRA.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Michael Cohen Pays the Price for His ‘Blind Loyalty’ to Trump
The sentencing ended a saga that began with a dramatic FBI raid and led Cohen to implicate the president in criminal misconduct.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Mueller’s Memos and the Alleged Lies of the Trump Lieutenants
The sentencing documents offer the clearest signs yet of how investigators are encircling the president.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Mueller’s Sentencing Memo for Flynn Doubles as a Warning to Manafort
A heavily redacted document cites the former national-security adviser’s “substantial” cooperation as a reason for him to avoid jail. Trump’s former campaign chief may not be so lucky.
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Julie Jacobson / Associated Press Michael Cohen Takes Mueller Inside the Trump Organization
The president’s former personal lawyer admitted lying to Congress about efforts in 2016 to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Is Manafort Angling for a Pardon?
Legal experts call his ongoing talks with Trump about the Mueller probe “extremely unusual.”
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Papadopoulos’s Russia Ties Continue to Intrigue the FBI
The former foreign-policy adviser to the Trump campaign boasted of a Russia business deal even after the election, according to a new letter under review.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters A New Indictment Looms in the Mueller Probe
Jerome Corsi, an associate of the Trump confidant Roger Stone, says he’s been offered a plea deal on one perjury count—but won’t take it.
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Evan Vucci / Associated Press Trump’s Yearning to Prosecute His Political Enemies
Trump reportedly sought earlier this year to prosecute Hillary Clinton and James Comey, which one former Justice Department official called “un-American.”
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Eerie Parallels Between Trump and the Watergate ‘Road Map’
Lawmakers thought Nixon’s gathering of inside information about the Watergate probe from DOJ was an impeachable offense.
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Evan Vucci / AP What Trump’s Latest Outburst About Mueller Could Mean
The president was unusually specific in his attacks against the special counsel.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters Putin’s Favorite Congressman Has Lost His Reelection
Dana Rohrabacher lost his reelection bid after two decades in Congress. Democrats could now dig in to his Kremlin ties.
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters How Mueller Could Defend the Russia Investigation From Interference
The special counsel could find recourse in the courts if the new acting attorney general tries to chip away at his work.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP What Sessions’s Resignation Means for Robert Mueller
His temporary replacement, Matthew Whitaker, has expressed skepticism over the scope of the Russia investigation—which he’ll now oversee.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters The Surprising Good News About Voting Security
With today’s midterms, America’s election infrastructure has never been more carefully monitored by government officials. But will that be enough?
