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Sen. John Cornyn, the second ranking Republican in the Senate, has asked to be removed from consideration to be the next FBI director, the Texan said in a statement.

Four years to the day before President Donald Trump was reported to have shared highly classified information with the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador to the US, he wondered how much more scandal Washington could handle.

H.R. McMaster, national security adviser to President Donald Trump, declined to say Tuesday whether the Western Wall is in Israel, furthering a controversy over the site ahead of Trump's visit to the country next week.

President Donald Trump, in hosting Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House Tuesday, extended his latest warm welcome to an authoritarian-style leader who had a strained relationship with the previous US administration.

The intelligence behind the US ban on laptops and other electronics is considered so highly classified that CNN, at the request of US government officials, withheld key details from a March 31 story on the travel restrictions.

President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, was shoved in the spotlight this week, addressing reporters at the White House twice in less than 24 hours after reports emerged that Trump may have disclosed sensitive classified information during a meeting with Russian officials earlier this month.

The United States could "squander our greatness" by failing to put country over party, former national security adviser Susan Rice said Tuesday -- pointing specifically to Russia.

President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday he had the right to share information with Russia related to terrorism and other issues, his first public response to the revelation he disclosed classified information at an Oval Office meeting last week.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo will brief the members of the House intelligence committee Tuesday on what President Donald Trump discussed with Russian officials last week, following claims the President apparently revealed classified information.

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates considered former national security adviser's Michael Flynn's position as being in a "serious compromise situation, that the Russians had real leverage," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

President Donald Trump shared highly classified information with the Russian foreign minister and Russian ambassador to the US in a White House meeting last week, according to The Washington Post.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asked Tuesday for "less drama from the White House."

A longtime Republican critic of President Donald Trump said Tuesday the reports that Trump shared classified information are dangerous because they undermine intelligence assets' faith that the US will protect them.

The Arizona school employee allegedly told Congresswoman Martha McSally her "days were numbered."

Judge Merrick Garland is not interested in leaving the judiciary amid speculation he could be a candidate to replace James Comey as FBI director, a source close to Garland told CNN Tuesday.

Two former officials knowledgeable of the situation confirmed to CNN that the main points of the Washington Post story are accurate: President Donald Trump shared classified information with the Russian foreign minister. Keep up with the fallout from Monday's revelation.