The unidentified person was investigated for an "alleged conspiracy involving persons or entities associated with a foreign government," per the DOJ.

US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson granted the DOJ's motion but had some harsh words for the government.

Former Treasury Department official Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards had pleaded guilty, admitting to leaking confidential documents to Buzzfeed News.

The House Judiciary Committee said it had reached an agreement with McGahn for him to do a private but transcribed interview.

Donald Trump reportedly wanted Michael Flynn to be his chief of staff in the final weeks of his term. Flynn was the short-tenured former national security advisor who pleaded guilty to misleading the FBI during the Russia investigation. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. In the final […]

Longtime GOP operative and ardent ally to President Donald Trump Roger Stone will campaign for Doug Collins in Georgia next week. Stone was convicted and sent to prison on charges of obstructing a congressional probe into 2016 election interference. His prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump in July. […]

Rick Gates, former deputy campaign chairman for Trump’s 2016 campaign, has written a book that gives a look deep inside Trump’s election and the Mueller probe. Gates himself was a star witness in Mueller’s investigation, testifying that he had committed crimes at former boss Paul Manafort’s direction. In an exclusive […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has appointed Michael Caputo to be its new Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, a top communications position. Caputo is a loyalist to President Donald Trump, who has worked on Republican campaigns since the 1980s, and for a Russian state-owned energy company in […]

The Trump campaign announced the lawsuit Wednesday afternoon, accusing The New York Times of knowingly publishing a false story about Russia collusion. The article in question, written by former executive editor Max Frankel in 2019, was an opinion piece and clearly labelled as such. “The Times obviously had a malicious […]

Despite being told by the attorney general not to do so, President Trump attacked a juror Tuesday in the case of his former adviser Roger Stone. “There has rarely been a juror so tainted as the forewoman in the Roger Stone case,” the president tweeted. “Look at her background. She […]

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page is suing the FBI and Justice Department for releasing texts where she explicitly criticised Donald Trump. In December 2017, the FBI showed a 90-page document to US reporters containing 375 texts between Page and senior FBI agent Peter Strzok, with whom Page was having an […]

Nearly 300 pages of documents related to the Russia investigation were released Monday as part of a public-records lawsuit brought forward by BuzzFeed News and CNN. The documents include summaries of FBI interviews as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The […]

Lisa Page, one of the FBI officials singled out by President Donald Trump in his bid to portray the Russia investigation as a partisan inquiry designed to undermine him, spoke with The Daily Beast about the impact of the attacks. “The president of the United States is calling me names […]

As Category 1 Hurricane Barry strengthened as it began to close in on Louisiana, President Donald Trump started a storm of his own on Twitter. Trump retweeted 24 tweets and sent two of his own Saturday morning between 7:30 and 8:30 AM. The tweets were about Trump’s golf courses, news […]

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller said he would not provide Congress with any testimony extending beyond the findings relayed in the special counsel’s final report. Mueller made the remarks in his only public statements during the entire timeline of the investigation. House Democrats have been pushing for a public hearing […]

Chicago banker Stephen Calk was charged with bribery by the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York on Thursday in an unsealed document. He is accused of approving $US16 million in loans to a senior Trump campaign official matching the description of Paul Manafort in exchange for […]

A new poll from Fox News found that respondents trust special counsel Robert Mueller to tell the truth about the Russia investigation more than they trust President Donald Trump to do the same. The survey, which was conducted by Democratic pollsters Beacon Research and Republican pollsters Shaw & Company between […]