An FBI informant was acting as 'secret spy' in the Trump election campaign, but he was not planted. A retired professor working for the Government met with three Trump aides in 2016.

Former Cambridge University professor Stefan Halper met with two Trump advisers suspected of dealing with the Russians in 2016, prompting claims he was acting as an FBI agent.

President Trump is demanding his Justice Department examine whether his 2016 presidential campaign was 'infiltrated or surveilled' by the FBI, he announced on Sunday.

Roger Stone, the self-described Republican ‘political dirty trickster’ and supporter of President Donald Trump, says he is ‘prepared’ in case he is indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

'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.

President Donald Trump volleyed another attack at former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, saying he was 'not happy' about what he termed 'spying' on his presidential campaign.

An impromptu conversation at a cocktail party could be behind the assertion from former Trump aide Michael Caputo that there was another informant sniffing around the campaign.

'Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were paid to the Spy, far beyond normal,' Trump tweeted Thursday.

Donald Trump hit back at James Comey again on Thursday morning as the fired FBI director entered a new war of words over the way the law enforcement agency operated under Comey's leadership.

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

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.

A former adviser to Donald Trump claims that 'two and perhaps more' informants approached him prior to the presidential election with information that would have 'jammed up' the campaign in some way.

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.

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

Donald Trump has called the decision to revoke Paul Manafort's bail 'tough' and 'very unfair' after a federal judge sent the former campaign manager to await trial behind bars.

Manafort was booked into Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia at 8.22pm on Friday, after a federal judge revoked his bond ahead of a trial scheduled for September.

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.

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.

The ex Ukip leader said reports that special prosecutor Robert Mueller was investigating him and Ukip donor Arron Banks over links to Moscow were 'hysterical'.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The 29-year-old has had to bide his time to be given the opportunity to show what he is capable of. That chance has arisen at Bundesliga leaders RB Leipzig and he has seized it with both hands.

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.

RICHARD KAY: In loss and sorrow, father and son forged deep bonds, a closeness that has endured in the face of frequent outbreaks of domestic adversity.

RICHARD KAY: For both parties it looked like a marriage made in heaven - a classic case of opposites attracting.

RICHARD KAY: Fifteen years ago, Sir Martin Sorrell paid a then record divorce settlement of more than £29 million to his first wife, Sandra Finestone, after 33 years of marriage.

To the very end, when he was 84 years old, battling cancer and in possession of a fortune worth upwards of £500million, South African hotel boss, Sol Kerzner was still making deals.

The photo of the Queen at Windsor Castle on the phone to Boris Johnson does not just assuage fears for the health of our 93-year-old monarch, it resolutely declares it is business as usual.

RICHARD KAY: Boris Johnson remained stoically upright as he joined in the mass applause for the NHS and if the usual ebullience was missing there was at least a flicker of determination.

RICHARD KAY: All her life she has been surrounded by people, from the moment she awakes till last thing at night. But the Queen's two weeks of virtual self-isolation haven't been straightforward.

RICHARD KAY: The hardest part must be accepting the sympathy while having to acknowledge that the exterior he has always presented has been breached.

Sophie Morgan, (pictured) who fronted the 2016 Paralympics coverage on Channel 4, said she struggled to get the attention of an attendant on the trip from Buenos Aires to Heathrow.

LAWRENCE BOOTH AT LORD'S: Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur criticised the World Cup regulations after his side missed out on the semi-finals to New Zealand on net run-rate.

The Paralympics has been added to the 'crown jewels' list of sports events which must be broadcast live on free-to-air TV - but cricket has been controversially overlooked.

Ministers and their special advisers are flatly refusing to work with Andrew Sabisky, 27, after he was found to have advocated extreme positions to enforce teenage contraception.

Andrew Sabisky, a self-described 'super-forecaster', answered Number 10's call for 'weirdos and misfits' but has prompted fury with his extreme views.

A leading global health scientist has said that it is 'very unrealistic' that the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will take place next year unless a vaccine is discovered by then. 

Sagittarius: Have belief in yourself this week, especially in relation to your work and making money.

Capricorn 22 DEC-20 JAN Capricorns are always in search of another goal. The Sun in your sign and a Capricorn solar eclipse means you won't be short of opportunities this week

Capricorn 22 DEC-20 JAN Tempting though it may be to end a relationship once and for all, that little voice inside your head urges you to be cautious.

Aquarius 21 JAN-19 FEB You are not easy to hoodwink, and if your instincts tell you to avoid an 'investment opportunity'