WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is claiming credit for beginning the end of what President Donald Trump has termed “American Carnage,” a spike in violent crime during 2015 and 2016, the final two years of the Obama administration. In an opinion piece published Tuesday in USA Today, Sessions pointed to preliminary FBI data showing […]
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interviewed last week by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office in connection with its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, a Justice Department spokesman said Tuesday. The New York Times reports Sessions was interviewed for several hours as part of Mueller’s broader Russia probe and whether President Donald Trump […]
A federal judge says the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former associate Rick Gates should not start in May, as requested by the Special Counsel conducting the Russia investigation, saying both sides need more time to examine evidence and file pre-trial motions. The judge indicated Tuesday the trial may not begin […]
What does President Donald Trump’s 2008 sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian billionaire have to do with collusion during the 2016 election? On the surface, not a whole lot. “You know the closest I came to Russia, I bought a house a number of years ago in Palm Beach … for $40 million, […]