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Mueller team indicts 12 Russian agents for hacking Clinton campaign

A dozen Russian intelligence officers are facing new U.S. federal indictments alleging they hacked into American computers with the intention of interfering with the 2016 election.




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Roger Stone says he's the 'U.S. person' mentioned in Mueller's indictment of 12 Russian agents

News of the indictments was announced at the Justice Department in Washington, DC during a press conference held by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.




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Russian gun activist 'infiltrated US political organizations'

Maria Butina, 29, was arrested in Washington D.C. and charged with acting as a foreign agent on orders from the Kremlin - a direct allegation of election interference.




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Trump's intelligence chief slams president's doubt on Russia meddling

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is countering his boss, President Donald Trump, and doubling down on the assertion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.




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Putin offers to interrogate his spies accused of election meddling

President Vladimir Putin has offered to have 12 Russians spies accused of interfering in the presidential election interrogated but in Russia and by Russians.




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Michael Cohen TROLLS Trump over claim that Russia didn't interfere

President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is siding with the intelligence community against his ex-boss, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.




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Trump defends himself on Putin in emergency statement

Trump in a major retreat that administration said that he misspoke at his Helsinki summit when he said that he did not have 'any reason' to think that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.




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Inside Putin's feared GRU spy network named in Mueller indictments

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team indicted 12 senior members of the GRU, alleging that they masterminded the hacking campaign against the Democratic Party.




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Trump claims he confronted Putin on meddling in the 2016 election

President Donald Trump is taking a much tougher line on Russian President Vladimir Putin in a new television interview than he did just days ago in Helsinki at Putin's side.




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Jane Fonda slams Trump for denying Putin played a part in election

US President Trump has faced criticism after he refused to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin over meddling in the US election at their Helsinki summit earlier this week.




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Trump told about Putin's election meddling weeks before inauguration

Weeks before President Donald Trump took office, the nation's top spy chiefs, pictured., warned him they information that Russian President Vladimir Putin had directed his nation's election hacking effort.




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Hillary Clinton had dinner with Harvey Weinstein after election loss

Photos of Hillary Clinton having dinner with longtime pal Harvey Weinstein weeks after her election loss have emerged.




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Trump calls claims about Russia a 'hoax' and blames Obama

'So President Obama knew about Russia before the Election. Why didn’t he do something about it? Why didn’t he tell our campaign?,' Trump tweeted on Sunday evening.




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Who is Michael Cohen? Trump's lawyer revealed amid Playboy tapes leak

It was revealed that President Donald Trump could be heard discussing payment for Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story about her alleged affair with him with his lawyer Michael Cohen.




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Giuliani says his team negotiating with Mueller on possible interview

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has offered to limit the number of obstruction-related questions Trump would be asked by investigators but doesn't want him to just provide written answers.




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Trump's top evangelical ally Falwell Jr attacks Sessions as a 'phony'

Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. joined President Trump's attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling him a 'phony' and even slamming his visit to the school.




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Giuliani tells Mueller to wrap up the Russia probe by September 1

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani says the special counsel's Russia probe and investigation into the president should be concluded by Sept. 1.




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Brennan: Trump revoked security clearance to hide Russia collusion

Answering charges that he is only targeting a list of his political opponents, Trump claimed he 'would put a Republican on, too, if I thought they were incompetent or crazy.'




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Admiral who ran Osama bin Laden raid: Revoke my security clearance

William McRaven, commander of the raid condemned Trump for revoking the security clearance of ex-CIA chief John Brennan saying the spy was 'of unparalleled integrity'.




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Model says she gave tapes proving Russian meddling to Oleg Deripaska

Anastasia Vashukevich, who also uses the name Nastya Rybka, was arrested in Pattaya, Thailand, in February and held on prostitution charges after hosting a 'sex training course'.




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Trump charges special counsel with 'looking for trouble'

President Trump added the accusation that special counsel Robert Mueller and his team 'are enjoying ruining people’s lives and REFUSE to look at the real corruption on the Democrat side.'




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Trump claims payments to Stormy Daniels and Playboy model were legal

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he only knew about payments to a porn star and Playboy model 'later' and they were fully legal because no campaign funds were used.




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Lawyer says Cohen has information that may interest Robert Mueller

Lanny Davis, lawyer for former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, said during an interview on CNN Tuesday that his client may have information related to Russian meddling.




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Trump tweets 'no collusion' after Cohen and Manafort are brought down

President Trump penned the tweet after what many had called the darkest day of his presidency following the guilty verdict against Paul Manafort and the guilty plea by Michael Cohen.




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Bolton warns Russia over election meddling before heading to Kiev

John Bolton met with Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva on Thursday, when the pair discussed election meddling, Syria, Iran, North Korea and nuclear weapons.




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Thiel: Trump was the only Republican candidate who wasn't a 'zombie'

Speaking at an event on entrepreneurship in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, Peter Thiel claimed Trump was a 'very healthy corrective' to the problem of political correctness in politics.




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Mueller snubs Trump attorneys' letter setting out interview conditions

Mueller has not responded to a weeks-old letter from Trump's legal team, suggesting the president's testimony isn't needed or investigators are tracking down new leads.




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Inside Putin's feared GRU spy network accused of being behind the Salisbury Novichok attack

The GRU - Russia's 'Main Intelligence Directorate' - was founded in 1918 after Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution.




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Papadopoulos sentenced to TWO WEEKS in jail for lying to the FBI

Former Donald Trump campaign foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos was sentenced to two weeks in jail Friday for lying to the FBI during the Russia probe.




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George Papadopoulos says his testimony could help prove collusion between Trump campaign and Russia

George Papadopoulos. who tired to arrange a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, said his testimony could help prove collusion.




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Trump touts strong economic growth and says Dems would have tanked it

President Trump is using the strong performance of the American economy as a weapon against Democrats, claiming growth would not be so high if they had won the 2016 election.




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Trump says he 'got elected' to pick new Supreme Court judges

In a tweet on Tuesday night, Trump accused the Democrats of deliberately obstructing his latest nomination of Brett Kavanaugh who has been accused of sexual assault.




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Hillary Clinton unloads on Trump and trolls his inauguration

Clinton launched a salvo at Donald Trump at an event in Washington D.C. where she accused him of bigotry, highlighting the Charlottesville violence, and mocked his notorious inauguration crowd.




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Billboard suggesting Trump to be God incarnate taken down in Missouri

An electronic billboard advertisement suggesting that President Donald Trump might be God 'in the flesh' was taken down in St. Louis, Missouri on Monday, after residents questioned its meaning.




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Paul Manafort violated plea deal and lied to prosecutors says Mueller

President Donald Trump accused the special counsel of ruining lives a day after Paul Manafort was charged with breaking his plea agreement for similar behavior.




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Trump attacks Mueller and slams 'fake news' in morning Twitter tirade

The president began what could be the most significant day so far in Robert Mueller's Russia probe pre-emptively lashing out at the special counsel's office in a tweetstorm.




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Read Michael Cohen's bombshell opening statement to Congress

Donald Trump's former fixer details in a 20-page statement his regret at working for the now president - and provides a jaw-dropping account of lies, cheating, racism and possible criminality.




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Cohen reveals he hunted for nonexistent tape of Trump hitting Melania

Cohen revealed that he hunted for a rumored tape of the president hitting Melania Trump – footage that he believes does not exist – and gave Democrats a reason to subpoena Trump's taxes.




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PIERS MORGAN: Mueller report shows collusion was disgraceful hoax

So it was all fake news…The entire two-year Russia collusion frenzy was based on an absolute falsehood that Donald Trump and his team had colluded with Russians to fix the 2016 election.




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Ecuador knew Wikileaks' Assange was interfering in 2016 US election

Former Ecuadorian President Rafeal Correa has said he was aware WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was interfering with the 2016 US Presidential election from the embassy in London.




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Monica Crowley said Obama 'has loyalties to Islam' and is now slated to be Treasury's spokeswoman

Former Fox News Channel pundit Monica Crowley is slated to be the next Treasury spokeswoman; she spread Islamophobic slurs about President Barack Obama starting a decade ago.




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Pictured: British student, 18, killed in go-kart crash in Malaysia 

Chloe Brigden was driving the go-kart around a track at the Malaysia X-Park in the city of Iskandar Puteri, southern Malaysia, when she lost control of the vehicle and crashed.




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Anti-Semitic PM of Malaysia says he likes Jewish friends because 'they're not like other Jews'

Mahathir Mohamad has caused outrage after he said he only liked his Jewish friends because 'they're not like other Jews' at a Cambridge Union event on Sunday night.




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Son of parents lost in MH17 shooting refuses to spend life hating suspects of attack

Jill and Roger Guard were two of the 298 people killed after their plane was shot from the sky as it flew over eastern Ukraine in 2014. Their son has since spoken out about the attack,




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Pet monkey kills its owner, 72, when the man tried to get it to climb a tree

The animal attacked Ngah Muhammad and injured his son, Mohd Zakaria Ngah, who found his father lying on the ground with a severed artery at a house in north-western Malaysia.




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Mum of MH17 victim, 25, reveals he had run to catch the plane and why she doesn't hate Russia

The Sydney mother of a 25-year-old passenger who lost his life aboard flight MH17 has revealed her heartbreak at watching her son's final moments as he sprinted through the airport to catch the plane. 




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Drama in the Malaysian FA Cup semi-final as freekick from his own half seals late win

Spectacular scenes unfolded in the semi-finals of the Malaysia FA Cup, after the most bizarre of late goals hit the back of the net during Pahang's victory over visiting Perak.




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Images reveal the world's longest water slide, at Malaysia's Escape Theme Park

Once finished in August, the slide in Malaysia will surpass a 1,984ft (605m) water slide in New Jersey that currently holds the Guinness World Record title for being the longest.




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Snapchat ranks countries based on how many friends people have there

The average person living in Saudi Arabia has the most best friends of any other country in the world and British people have the least, new research has revealed.




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Four men are arrested after being caught smuggling over 5,000 baby turtles

Border agents found a total 5,255 red-ear slider baby turtles kept in small baskets from the luggage of two Indian nationals who flew in from Guangzhou, China to Kuala Lumpur airport.