Fired FBI director James Comey recently asked the Justice Department to provide more resources to the bureau's counterintelligence investigation of possible connections between President Trump's campaign team and Russian officials, a source told Fox News Wednesday.
By firing FBI Director James Comey, President Trump ensured an independent probe of Russian influence on the 2016 election, according to a top constitutional law professor, who added in a blog post that Trump had legitimate reasons and authority to swing the ax.
The White House defended President Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey Wednesday, lashing out at Comey and accusing him of throwing a “stick of dynamite” into the Department of Justice, and committing “atrocities” in his handling of the Clinton email saga.
Several candidates already are being interviewed in the search for an interim replacement for fired FBI Director James Comey, senior Justice Department officials said Wednesday.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is holding the daily press briefing in which she is expected to address the firing of FBI director James Comey.
Rod Rosenstein, who recommended that President Trump fire FBI Director James Comey, is widely respected by both career civil servants and members of both political parties.
The Senate on Wednesday failed to reverse an Obama-era regulation restricting harmful methane emissions that escape from oil and gas wells on federal land, a surprising win for environmentalists and Democrats and a blow to the fossil-fuel industry.
Senate Democrats intensified efforts Wednesday to pressure Republicans who control the chamber to support the appointment of a special prosecutor for the probe into Russia’s alleged election meddling and ties to the Trump campaign, vowing to block President Trump’s appointees and apparently try to disrupt meetings and other official business.
Top Senate Democrats and Republicans battled Wednesday in the aftermath of FBI Director James Comey’s firing over whether to appoint a special prosecutor to lead a new probe into Russian election meddling.
Former President Richard Nixon’s presidential library weighed in on the firing of FBI Director James Comey on Twitter Tuesday night, distancing President Donald Trump’s actions from that of Nixon’s.
President Trump met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Wednesday, amid a firestorm on Capitol Hill over Trump’s Tuesday firing of FBI Director James Comey.
President Trump will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Wednesday, amid a firestorm on Capitol Hill over Trump’s Tuesday firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was tasked last month by President Trump to review 27 national monuments across the country designated since 1996 that total 100,000 acres or more.
Top Senate Republican Chuck Grassley backed President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday and had a strong message for outraged media outlets: “suck it up and move on.”
President Trump took to Twitter to fire back at Democrats who condemned his firing of FBI Director James Comey, defending his decision and noting it was Democrats who once leveled some of the toughest criticism at the now-ousted bureau boss.
President Trump is criticizing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for comments the New York Democrat made in response to the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
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