WASHINGTON — Shouting "FBI, open the door," authorities arrested Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, before dawn Friday in a criminal case that revealed that senior members of the Trump campaign sought to benefit from the release of hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton. The seven-count indictment against...
Ivanka Trump Says ‘Lock Her Up!’ Doesn’t Apply in Her Case
WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump defended her use of a private email account as she was moving into an adviser's position in her father's administration, saying that it cannot be compared to the flap over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and that "Lock her up!" doesn't apply...
Hillary Will Run in 2020 as Liberal Firebrand, Says Former Adviser
Get ready for Hillary Clinton 4.0. More than 30 years in the making, this new version of Mrs. Clinton, when she runs for president in 2020, will come full circle — back to the universal-health-care-promoting progressive firebrand of 1994. True to her name, Mrs. Clinton will fight this out until...
Man in His 50s Detained in Florida in Mail-Bomb Case
WASHINGTON — A person was taken into custody in Florida in connection with the series of mail bombs addressed to prominent critics of President Donald Trump, the Justice Department said Friday. A law enforcement official says the person in custody is a man in his 50s.Authorities have located 12 devices...
Trump Condemns Series of Attempted Attacks on Democrats, CNN
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump condemned the series of attempted attacks on high-profile Democrats and others, declaring Wednesday that "acts or threats of political violence have no place in the United States." Attempting a bipartisan pause during a divisive campaign season, Trump called for unity after crude pipe bombs targeting...
Explosive Devices Sent to Obama, Clintons; CNN Evacuated
WASHINGTON — Bombs and other suspicious packages targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama and CNN were intercepted Wednesday in a rash of attacks aimed at prominent Democrats and a cable news network often criticized by political conservatives. And, in Florida, the Broward Sheriff's Office is using a bomb squad...
Lock Her Up? Now It's Dianne Feinstein Instead of Clinton
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Chants of "Lock her up!" rang once again throughout an Iowa arena as President Donald Trump rallied supporters Tuesday night. But this time, the staple of Trump's 2016 campaign against Democrat Hillary Clinton had a new target: California Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Trump, who was in the...
FBI's Strzok Defiantly Rejects Bias Charges at Chaotic Hearing
WASHINGTON — An FBI agent whose anti-Trump text messages fueled suspicions of partisan bias said at a fiery and occasionally chaotic hearing in Congress on Thursday that his work has never been tainted by politics, angrily rejecting Republican allegations that he set out to stop Donald Trump from becoming president....
Senate Intelligence Panel Refutes Nunes' Findings on Russia
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate committee said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence agencies' assessment of Russian activities during the 2016 presidential election was based on "sound" analysis not swayed by politics, the Associated Press reported. The January 2017 intelligence assessment said Russian activities in the run-up to the presidential election represented...
Hillary, Russians & Amanda Renteria. What a Senator Wanted to Know.
Why did Amanda Renteria’s name come up in a recent congressional hearing about the Clinton email scandal? Some people point to a Russian document of highly questionable reliability. The document alleges that Renteria participated in a meeting that could be considered unethical. But despite long-held doubts by the FBI about the...