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Lawyers to Mueller on Trump interview: No questions on post-election

President Donald Trump's legal team is trying to cut a deal on the president's potential interview with Mueller's team, pushing to keep any of Trump's actions after he won the presidency off the table.




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Trump goes all-in on his Spygate claims saying he believes his campaign was snooped on by the FBI

'SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!' the president tweeted on Wednesday, gloating that it could be a comeuuppance for a partisan FBI that is investigating him.




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Dems insist they heard NOTHING in secret intel briefing that proves FBI snooped on Trump's campaign

Senior lawmakers attended classified briefings with intelligence officials on the FBI's probe of Russia's role in the 2016 election.




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Mueller bid for secrecy: Barest details risk blowing open Russia probe

Special counsel Robert Mueller is fighting for complete secrecy in his probe into Russia's role in the election and his arguments hint that his investigation is growing across multiple fronts.




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Roger Stone 'sought info on Hillary from Assange before election'

Longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone (left), allegedly inquired about damaging information on Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (top right) before the 2016 election.




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Trump claims FBI told Obama about Russian meddling before election

President Donald Trump has launched a stinging attack on former President Barack Obama, criticising his predecessor's lack of action over 'so-called Russian meddling'.




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Mueller's Russia investigation bill hits $17 million

According to the U.S Department of Justice, special counsel Robert Mueller's probe racked up nearly $10 million in expenditure from October to March, the latest six-month accounting period.




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Trump again derides Mueller's investigation as a 'hoax'

Trump said hopped on a report that put the tab for the investigation that he called the 'Russian hoax' at $17 million.




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Inside the mysterious Wikistrat firm that Mueller is investigating

Wikistrat, a company that pitches itself as a crowdsourced geopolitical research firm, may actually be involved in intelligence-gathering on behalf of foreign governments, it has been reported.




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FBI lawyer working on Mueller probe texted: 'Viva le Resistance'

An FBI lawyer exchanged messages after the election with another colleague and proclaimed: 'Vive la resistance.'




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Paul Manafort could 'never see the outside of a prison cell'

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said Manafort's advance age, and the hefty sentences he could face from a U.S. federal judge, mean he could be behind bars for the rest of his life.




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Texas tax fraud convict jailed for five years for illegally voting in 2016 election denied retrial

Crystal Mason, a 43-year-old tax fraud convict and mother-of-two, voted in the 2016 election while on supervised release - unaware that she was ineligible under a Texas law.




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Trump mocks 'Crooked Hillary' for losing election amid dispute over immigration

Donald Trump swatted back at his former presidential rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday after she said in a speech that he was wrong about Germany's crime rate.




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Majority of Republicans say Trump should not pardon himself

Democrats and Republicans agree presidents should not pardon themselves and majorities of Americans in both parties believe Congress should impeach that president, poll finds.




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Trump says he'll talk to Putin about election meddling

The U.S. president says he also plans to talk to Putin about the civil war in Syria and Russia's incursion into Crimea when they meet on July 16 Helsinki, Finland.




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Trump 'feels' Russia interfered following election meddling report

President Trump seemed to claim last week that Russia was not involved in a conspiracy to disrupt the election, but the White House says he 'feels' that Putin's government did and 'didn't question that.'




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Trump says he'll bring up election meddling with Putin

President Donald Trump said he would once again raise the sensitive issue of election meddling with Russian President Vladimir Putin – then predicted his counterpart 'may deny it.'




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Spicer says DHS told Trump campaign Russia couldn't rig the election

In his upcoming book The Briefing: Politics, the Press and the President, detailing his time White House, Sean Spicer says DHS officials made the comments when Clinton was expected to win.




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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Cristiano Ronaldo, Virgil van Dijk and Lionel Messi named on Ballon d'Or 30-man shortlist

Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Sadio Mane, Mo Salah and Virgil Van Dijk have all been shortlisted for this year's Ballon d'Or, after the 30-man shortlist for the prestigious award was announced.




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Klopp believes Liverpool are once again among Europe's elite after seven Ballon D'Or nominations

Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool's septet of Ballon d'Or nominees is the surest indication his club have re-established themselves as a leading European force.