Apr 21 Watch 3:21 News Wrap: Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirms Russian election meddling In our news wrap Tuesday, a bipartisan Senate report reaffirms that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election -- and will try it again this year. The findings contradict President Trump’s claims of a hoax and reiterate the intelligence… Continue watching
Mar 11 House can have Mueller probe grand jury testimony, court rules By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The Justice Department must give Congress secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, giving the House a significant win in a separation-of-powers clash with the Trump administration. Continue reading
Mar 10 Watch 3:13 News Wrap: Appeals court rules DOJ must share Mueller grand jury material In our news wrap Tuesday, a U.S. federal appeals court ordered the Justice Department to hand over grand jury testimony from the special counsel’s Russia probe. The panel ruled 2-to-1 that the House is entitled to the material as part… Continue watching
Jan 21 American voters worry they can’t spot misleading information, poll finds By Laura Santhanam A majority of Americans say spotting the difference between fact and false information on social media is difficult and gotten harder since 2016, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. Continue reading
Dec 23 House committee raises prospect of more impeachment articles against Trump By Eric Tucker, Associated Press In a court filing Monday, lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee said former White House counsel Don McGahn's testimony remains essential even though the House has already voted to impeach Trump on two charges related to his interactions with Ukraine… Continue reading
Dec 16 Judge sets Michael Flynn sentencing, rejects defense arguments By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The order from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington pushes the case closer to a resolution following months of challenges and arguments from Flynn's attorneys, who had leveled a series of accusations against the FBI and the Justice Department. Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch 11:22 DOJ inspector general finds Russia probe was appropriately opened — but Barr disagrees A long-awaited report into the origins of the Russia probe found no evidence of a political conspiracy against President Trump. But the Justice Department’s inspector general criticized the FBI’s handling of wiretap applications used in the early stages of the… Continue watching
Dec 09 DOJ inspector general finds no bias in FBI’s Russia probe By Michael Balsamo, Eric Tucker, Associated Press The findings undercut President Donald Trump’s claim that he was the target of a “witch hunt.”… Continue reading
Dec 09 Read the full DOJ inspector general’s report on the FBI’s Russia probe By William Brangham, Nsikan Akpan A watchdog report on the Russia probe, by the Justice Department inspector general, finds no evidence of political bias but says 17 "significant errors or omissions" occurred during the Russia investigations. Continue reading
Nov 22 Watch 4:55 News Wrap: DOJ report finds political bias did not affect FBI’s Russia probe In our news wrap Friday, an internal Justice Department report concludes political bias did not affect the FBI’s probe of links between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. It also found an FBI lawyer may have altered a document about… Continue watching