WHITE HOUSE — The White House on Thursday continued to defend its handling of the firing of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, amid investigations into connections between the president’s election campaign last year and Russian officials. At the center of the scrutiny is whether the deputy attorney general of the Justice Department, Rod […]
CAPITOL HILL — U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has offered to cooperate with congressional investigators looking into contacts between Trump campaign advisers and Russia, as long as Flynn is granted immunity from prosecution. The Wall Street Journal first reported Thursday that Flynn is in talks to try to get a promise […]
FBI Director James Comey has debunked President Donald Trump’s explosive claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him in the weeks before last year’s presidential election and also confirmed that his agency is investigating whether Trump campaign aides criminally colluded with Russian interests to help Trump win. “We don’t have any information that supports (Trump’s) […]
The U.S Justice Department reported on Friday that an Anchorage man, 23-year-old Jahkeel Joseph, had been sentenced to 16 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release following a Felon in Possession of a Firearm conviction. Joseph had pleaded guilty to the charge in October of 2016. In documents that were filed in […]